/lit/ - Literature

It's one of the only books they've read.

>>12481150
Because 20-year-old women are children.

>>12481150
>sorcerer's stone
lmao burgers

>>12481150

Why do you care?

>>12481322
>t. 20-year-old female Harry Potter fan

>>12481150
Because some dried-up cunt wrote it and they think that will be them someday.

>>12481150
I love the Harry Potter series, it's a light read and a lot of fun, it also brings me back to my youth. Is it better than Crime and Punishment? No, but if you enjoy it then who cares and why should you be ashamed?

>>12481353
>No, but if you enjoy it then who cares and why should you be ashamed?
Because /lit/, like all boards like to posture and are complicit in self-congratulatory contrarianism.

>>12481329

Nope. It just seems like a waste of time and energy to care about something so pointless. You should try finding healthier ways of feeling good about yourself. Making fun of people for what they like to read is pretty pathetic =/

>>12481372
Lmao, fuck off roastie, bullying people is intensely amusing. Why do you think it has been a pastime for at least 200,000 years (probably longer)?

>>12481372
What if they like to read about women being raped and killed?

Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted — in a word, are big children all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man, who is a man in the strict sense of the word. Consider how a young girl will toy day after day with a child, dance with it and sing to it; and then consider what a man, with the very best intentions in the world, could do in her place.
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower is it in reaching maturity. Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and mental faculties scarcely before he is eight-and-twenty; woman when she is eighteen; but hers is reason of very narrow limitations. This is why women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important. It is by virtue of man’s reasoning powers that he does not live in the present only, like the brute, but observes and ponders over the past and future; and from this spring discretion, care, and that anxiety which we so frequently notice in people. The advantages, as well as the disadvantages, that this entails, make woman, in consequence of her weaker reasoning powers, less of a partaker in them. Moreover, she is intellectually short-sighted, for although her intuitive understanding quickly perceives what is near to her, on the other hand her circle of vision is limited and does not embrace anything that is remote; hence everything that is absent or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness. Women in their hearts think that men are intended to earn money so that they may spend it, if possible during their husband’s lifetime, but at any rate after his death.

>>12481374

It's always been amusing for the village idiot. You aren't even bullying any 20 y/o girls by posting it here. You're just trying to start a circle-jerk with other idiots here, want to get a slight boost in your sense of self-worth by making fun of someone else's literary tastes. At least they can say that they like a book and not constantly feel the need to justify their tastes in terms of difficulty and obscurity.

>>12481382
Spend it on Harry Potter books.

>>12481398
>It's always been amusing for the village idiot.
Lmao, dumb dumb, why do you think the village idiot is called the village idiot? He was the target of THEIR abuse. Next time, try and at least engage brain.
>You aren't even bullying any 20 y/o girls by posting it here.
Well clearly, you're pretty offended about it, sweetie. So I'm getting some measure of catharsis here.
>You're just trying to start a circle-jerk with other idiots here, want to get a slight boost in your sense of self-worth by making fun of someone else's literary tastes.
Nawh, we're idiots, why? Because we hurt your fee-fees? Nawh, snookums.
>At least they can say that they like a book and not constantly feel the need to justify their tastes in terms of difficulty and obscurity.
You say, whilst unironically posting on 4chan. Lmao.
You're actually too dumb to realize not only the irony of your outrage, but also your own hypocrisy.
Cry moar, faggit, cry moar.

>>12481410
Cringe award of the day.

>>12481420
Lmao.
>Omg, why isn't he responding to my faggy feminine posts!
>Oh, I know, I'll just say cringe!
Cringe.

>>12481410

Uh oh, big boy 4chan ironist coming in! I'm going to imagine that you are so triggered by my provocations! Posting anything that's not shit-posting?? Awww, nice try hun! You must be SO mad about my provocative posts....but you're too dumb to even realize it.

>Whilest

So cringe dude. You're actually retarded for caring to be this much of a shit poster. Make your bed

>20

Found the boomer. Time to let go, gramps

>>12481444
Go home, Reddit.
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>>12481150
It's probably the one of the only books they've read that they weren't forced to read in school. You can tell someone hasn't actually read since graduating if you ask them about their favorite books and they say "um... Harry Potter". In a lot of cases it's less about genuine appreciation for the book than it is a panic-induced response that happens when they are asked about their non-existent reading habits and think that listing a children's novel is less embarrassing than just admitting that they don't read anything besides twitter posts.

>>12481470
I know people who haven't read a book in decades.

>>12481372
emoticons on this website are a serious sign that you're not hollowed out enough to be here

>>12481477
Or they have beef curtains.

>>12481464

Wow, great criticism!

>>12481398
If you don't like 4chan than leave you stupid nigger loving tranny. There's a reason no one likes you and your parents always give you "that look".

>>12481477

You're right man. You have to be tuff to make it on 4chan without posting anything sincerely.

>>12481486
There was NOTHING to critize, you spastic? Apart from, obviously, your mongoloidal formatting.

>>12481491

Waaaaahhh!! If you no like my safe-site, leave!!!

Reading is funny.

It's like we've idealized the act of reading text such that virtually any instance of it is seen as sacrosanct. In no other field is it acceptable to run headlong into stagnation—refinement and improvement is always the goal, if not assumed to be the natural progression of things.

Like, fuck. If someone sat on their ass all day consuming vapid reality television, it's entirely reasonable to shame them into oblivion. The only times you witness bare minimum competency being encouraged is when middle-aged losers score deadend jobs at their local Mobil station (because, "well, at least he's working!") or when an anorexic teenager girl stuffs her face with Double Stufs and Flamin' Hot Cheetos ("she's eating, that's all that matters!").

>>12481507
If you don't understand the humor, leave. Because clearly, this isn't the milieu for a spastic roastie, like yourself.

>>12481474
That's okay as long as they don't pretend to be anything that they aren't. Historically it was always understood that not everyone was going to be an intellectual who spends their life reading and contemplating the meaning of things. It isn't a problem if you acknowledge that any society needs a certain amount of people who can just execute tasks without thinking too much about them. However, these people become insufferable when they try to claim that they understand more about complicated subjects than people who have spent years reading about them.

>>12481500

Heh *pushes glasses up* there was NOTHING to criticize. Your formatting reveals so much about you that I could not spare a word against the drivel you've produced.

>>12481507
Yes. If you don't like coming here, stop doing it you deranged whore. No one is going to change a thing for you.

Harry potter isn't well written nor does it say anything that matters.
Holding on to it for nostalgic purposes is like holding onto Fairly Oddparents

>>12481524

What if I understand it, think its retarded, and shit post as a roastie to get retards defensive?

>>12481543
>no you don't get it, I'm pretending to whine

>>12481150
isn't it a book for a 3000 year old semi babaric peoples?

>>12481534
You mean, like everyone elses? Gosh yeah, that makes me so abnormal.

>>12481543
You're pretty clearly either a roastie, or a faggot, which is just a roastie with a penis.

>>12481150
I'm 21/m but this series will always be my favourite because it's what got me into reading a lot, and I really fucking enjoyed it as a kid.
I hold it in that regard for sentimental reasons, and I really don't think that it will ever be replaced.
That said Moby Dick is my favourite book. I, too, don't really get why you would keep a single book of HP as your favourite into your 20s. Like did you only read one of them? Have you only read one book, ever?

>>12481150
women are children

>>12481845
Animorphs got me into reading but you don't see me parading it around as a life changing masterpiece at almost 30 years old you queer

>>12481845
I think it's perfectly normal to have at least one "childhood favorite" in your top 10 books or whatever. Most people don't magically hate the things they read as a kid when they hit a certain age, they usually read those books to their own children and love the books all over again.

I don't think Harry Potter is good or bad for children, though, I think it is neutral. Some people, like Harold Bloom says, are "being trained to read Stephen King," and end up reading nothing but genre fiction. But other people read Harry Potter and actually do develop a love for literature and end up getting into classics later in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAzhX8piWLw
I prefer Dick Masterson's take on why Women love it. Though I still don't know how so many feminists can love this series so dearly even though it is male centric.

>>12481157
whoooa dude great fuckin post!

>>12482168
Gracias mang

>>12481353
>if you enjoy it then who cares and why should you be ashamed?
This is the go to defense for every adult Potter fanboy/girl when asked to justify their obsession of a children's book series. If "I like it because it's fun" is \your only reason for liking something, it means you suffer from ennui and have a nihilistic view of the world.
>>12481372
Sure, you had commodity fetishists like trekkies and Star Wars nerds since the 60's and 70's, but there is something particularly poignant that's expressed about our culture when an adult in their 30's still relishes over a children's book series, which hasn't been seen until the 21st century

>>12482306
>If "I like it because it's fun" is \your only reason for liking something, it means you suffer from ennui and have a nihilistic view of the world.
Found the redditnigger. Jesus fuck, did you even read that before you started frantically mashing the 'Post' button? People like different books than you, therefore they're nihilistic?
Shoot yourself in the kneecaps.

>>12482840
>found the redditnigger
>he says in response to basically the ancient /v/ copypasta about "fun"
You have to go back

>>12481150
Why does what other people read make you insecure?

>>12481353
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>>12481845
Look at these posts and tell me this website isn't fucking reddit. 4channel allowed normies in to do whatever the fuck they want. Welcome to red/lit/.

>>12484106
Which house did you get sorted into?

Damn, this thread really struck a nerve lmao

>>12481372
>Making fun of people for what they like to read is pretty pathetic

Because Severus Snape is a beautiful man with sensitive nipples.

He also has a very sensitive prostate and carries tenga eggs in his butt at all times.

>>12481377
That's what death eater fanfics are for.

Hehehehe...young women are so dumb! And by thinking so, surely I reject them, and not them me right boys? Right? Right guys?

I dont want to die alone. What did I do wrong? Help please Im drowning in rejection.

>>12481508
>refinement and improvement is always the goal, if not assumed to be the natural progression of things.
This applies to music and fine arts too.

>>12484123
"Liking shallow escapism is fine! If you don't like it, you're just salty!"

Fuck off, pleb. /r/books is waiting for you.

>>12481157
What if she was babysitting and read the book to her niece? Does that still mean she's childish? What if she's read all the books you have and read Harry Potter? What does that mean?

>>12484251
>>12484254
Mmm, if only he pushed a drugging potion to my lips, clouding my mind with black twirls of smoke, and then proceeded to work with his magic wand against me, casting the unlocking spell upon my wide shut buttocks, streams of magic fizzling pouring inside me and fizzling on contact with my locking mechanism, opening me up for once and for all

>>12484551
>if it’s her favorite book then she’s a child
>but what if it’s not her favorite book?
Do you really need this explained to you?

>>12481372
>>12481398
>>12481507
unironically based

>>12484123

Meanwhile I, the turbo brain, am exploring the depths of the human experience, while you, the idiot, is trying to have some fun while reading.

>>12484187
I didn't think /lit/ had degenerated this much. There used to be at least some real discussion. Now everyone has opinions based on the blurbs that they read on here about authors/books and everything is about ranking books based on their difficulty and how far removed they are from the mainstream. It's all about being le intellectual, which really means dick-measuring iq's using the tuff books you read to say something about yourself. It's all about trying to feel so smart by preferring harder and older books and then giving yourself the intellectual high ground because of it. So pathetic

>>12485074
right right

>>12485362
This board has been exactly the same for at least six years. I stopped coming here from 2014-last month and nothing has changed at all.

>>12481255
Which is better the original in British or the American translation?
Asking for a friend who is an ESL native German

>>12481398
>it’s ok to justify liking a book because it was fun
>it’s not okay to justify liking a book because it is difficult
You are also quoted to have said something along the lines of “making fun of people for their tastes is pathetic.”

>>12484251
Who are you? Imagine consensual loving sex with this.

>>12484106
Amen friend. I'm going to excuse myself from this thread and go stretch my legs,

>>12485842
That's obviously not what I'm saying. Liking a book because it's fun is not accompanied by en egotistical motivation. Liking a book because it's difficult, and given the context of this board, does include an egotistical motivation. You may like difficulty because it presents a challenge, but on this board, you know as well as I that difficulty is valued for the intelligence required to understand it.

>>12485547
There's always been a lot of shit on this board. I'm just saying that it's a higher % now than ever before.

>>12485319
>>12484548

>>12485547
the last two years where much much worse some anti-semitic insane guy had been shitting up everything thread with jewish conspiracy theories every day for like two years but it looks like he finally fucked off and shit is mostly back to normal

>>12486085
>anti-semitic jewish conspiracy theories
Yikes got anymore pavlovian buzzwords?

>>12486096
that guy literally had a jewish theory of history where basically all historical movement in human history is the result of jews, if i had to speculate i'd say he was a jewish guy cuz only a jew could believe jews are that special

>>12486104
Oh I see. Yeah that is pretty silly everyone knows the freemasons, rosicrucians and jesuits help out the chosen ;^)

>>12486104
Any jews in Harry Potter series?

>>12486085
So all it took was one /pol/ boogeyman to scare you away. You're such a pussy. You have to go back.

>>12486109
jk rowling

>>12481150
To be the only person who actually answers OP’s question, here is the truth: women are creatures who top and main concern is social status, social points, and being collectivists. The surge in HP popularity came not with the end of the books, nor entirely with the end of the movies, but with the creation of a site called Pottermore. Basically a horoscope site that categorizes people into different HP house. Rowling also started tweeting more, casting herself as the perfect SJW and a feminist icon. It was here that the female fandom rose, it had all the ingredients: horoscopes, feminism, and the status of being a member of the HP fan club. I gurantee you that the majority of modern female HP fans did not grow up with the books, but became retroactive fans. Some of the more fanatic followers went back and actually read the books, to dive deeper into the lore.
t. Anon who has a little sister