/lit/ - Literature

Bloom btfo

OP seems to be correct. I just scanned through the first book and only found one result:

>Mr. Dursley always sat with his back to the window in his office on the ninth floor. If he hadn't, he might have found it harder to concentrate on drills that morning. He didn't see the owls swooping past in broad daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed open- mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead. Most of them had never seen an owl even at nighttime. Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly normal, owl-free morning. He yelled at five different people. He made several important telephone calls and shouted a bit more. He was in a very good mood until lunchtime, when he thought he'd stretch his legs and walk across the road to buy himself a bun from the bakery.

What's the problem?

His mistake was starting with Harry Potter and the Outstretched Legs, which even diehard potterheads accept is aggressively mundane.

>>13142954

>>13142719
J.K. Rowling is a good writer. Look how quickly and neatly she establishes Uncle Vernon's character, hear how pleasant and simple the paragraph reads. It reminds me of a nice middlebrow short story you might find in the New Yorker, back when the New Yorker was good, I mean. I like Bloom but he can be a bit of a contrarian poseur, and inventing that anecdote about the envelope was immoral and disingenuous. It's amusing, but he's a professional critic; people take his words seriously. He has an obligation to be honest, and realizing that he lied was an incredible disappointment. He writes beautifully but he's also sort of a fraud, and I seriously wonder if he believes even half the things says.

>>13142675
i couldn't give a fuck what bloom thinks.
harry potter is shit though

>>13143390

amen
Bloom is compromised. he’s endorsed genuine trash just because it was written by a fellow tribesman.

>>13142954
At least the movie was good.

>>13143572
are you referring to the infamous joshua cohen affair?

>>13143390
The guy singlehandedly wrote The Western Canon.

>>13143596

that among many others

constantly referring to his tribesman writers as ‘my close friend’

ranking Roth on the same plane as Pynchon + McCarthy is obscene

endorsing a god-awful nonfiction book on the basis that he liked its portrayal of the Zionist state

sad to say that he’s no better than the establishment he cries about for judging based on beliefs rather than aesthetic merit. desu, I think Wood is prob better than Bloom at this point. Shame

>>13143620
>endorsing a god-awful nonfiction book on the basis that he liked its portrayal of the Zionist state
which book?

>>13143657

Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius. Wood tore him apart for that review.

>>13142719
This actually seems pretty comfy. Maybe Harry Potter would make good bedtime lit.

why would anyone ever take bloom seriously? he fell for the speed reading meme, only speaks english and some meme languages that are literary and literally irrelevant, reads translations and wrote a really shitty novel

>>13143699
Yeah, I've been thinking of going back and rereading it myself. Haven't read it since I was a kid.

>>13143707
>reads translations
Looks like you fell for the "don't read translations" meme

>>13143258
>J.K. Rowling is a good writer
bloom is a cunt but holy fucking yikes

>>13143713
Even Scruton says she's a good writer you pseud

>>13143712
if you limit yourself to the english language you will always and forever be a brainlet. im sorry but its the truth. the english language is a brainlet language.

>>13143722
nice non sequitur

>>13143713
>it's only good writing if it has labyrinthine syntax, archaisms, drops scientific/mathematical terms for no reason and does all other types of pointless verbal wankery
you've been brainwashed by dilettantes, anon.

>>13143729
>it's only good writing if it has labyrinthine syntax, archaisms, drops scientific/mathematical terms for no reason and does all other types of pointless verbal wankery
wh-where did you get a hold of my rating system?

>>13143722
What other language/s are you fluent in butters

>>13143713

>>13143740
Fake butters

>>13143258
Why would you expect honesty from a jew?

>>13142675
Bloom's a lazy turgid hack, surprise surprise

>>13143715
Appeal to authority.
>>13143729
Strawman.
>>13143761
"YAAAAS QUEEN SLAY" types love Harry Potter.

Now provide some actual defenses of J. K. Rowling's mediocre writing. You won't be able to.

why critique her writing when you can troll her from the left for eurocentrism and endorsing slavery

>>13142675
I like Harold but he's a theatrical psychopath

>>13143699
my mom read all of these to me and my siblings when we went to sleep
it wasn't until order of the pheonix when I started reading them myself
it's like I actually grew with the characters
my only problem with rowling is her incessant pandering to people she's never met in order to be a good girl, and adding things after it's all said and done which never really made sense
>albus is gay
>wizards used magic to make their shit disappear until they adopted muggle plumbing

>>13144989
mein negger