/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1076469]

Man, /lit/. I saw this today in the book store and just broke down crying for my lost childhood.

[Anonymous No.1076478]

If your 30-ish go mid life if your 20-ish just walk around cool and kids will envy you but don't act like a pedo!

ex. hey kids whatcha playin...wanna hang with me

[Anonymous No.1076484]

>>1076469

I'm 18. I know, still young, but I'm not really a kid anymore.

[Anonymous No.1076489]

18 is a kid. I'm thirty and I probably seem ancient to you guys but I look at 18 year olds as kids too

[Anonymous No.1076497]

>>1076489

True. I suppose thinking you're an adult when you're only 18 is a sign you're still a kid. I'm talking more like when I was in the 6-15 era.

[Anonymous No.1076516]

I'm 16 , and still love Harry potter

[Anonymous No.1076520]

>>1076516

That's not at all what I was saying. I can still enjoy Harry Potter. It's just that it was one of the biggest parts of my childhood, which is now, pretty much, over.

[Anonymous No.1076521]

>Sorcerer's Stone

[Anonymous No.1076527]

>>1076521

Oh, sorry. Philosopher's Stone for all you Eurofags.

[ForcedMeme !IsAMEmE6C2 No.1076536]

36 year old here. Harry Potter makes me nostalgic for those days just after college when I had more time to read.

"Nostalgic for my childhood" requires Encyclopedia Brown, or maybe The Smurfs.

[Anonymous No.1076539]

>>1076489

I'm twenty–five and me at eighteen would be unrecognizable, so I vote for them still being kids. too.

[Anonymous No.1076543]

>>1076521
>>1076527

Why exactly was this changed for the US market?
I never really understood this; is, for whatever reason, the concept of the philosophers' stone completely unknown in USA?

I've never read Harry Potter, so if this is explained in the book then I offer my apologies. Can anyone shed any light on this?

[Anonymous No.1076546]

>>1076543
It shows the contempt with which publishers hold the American reading public. And maybe says a little about that public, too.

[Anonymous No.1076579]

>>1076543

I believe the official explanation is that the publisher thought the word "philosopher" would be intimidating to children (translation: they think children are retarded). And I'm not sure how well-know the philosopher's stone mythology is in Britain, but here in Canada I would say that most kids hadn't heard of it before reading Harry Potter (the title wasn't changed here, though).

[Anonymous No.1076594]

>>1076536
Jesus. How long did the Smurfs run? I'm 22 and they were my childhood, too.

[ForcedMeme !IsAMEmE6C2 No.1076606]

>>1076594
Wikipedia says 1981-1990, and I was definitely watching them when they premiered.

[Anonymous No.1076619]

>>1076606
Surely they were aired beyond 1990. There's no way I'd remember them so vividly if I'd been 2 years old when I used to watch it.

[Anonymous No.1078158]

>>1076484

>I'm 18.
>I'm not really a kid anymore.

[Anonymous No.1078241]

>>1076543
What I really wonder is, what else was changed? I live in the U.S., I love the mythology surrounding alchemy, and I'm pissed off that they changed it. But my biggest beef is that I don't want to read a book that was fucking translated from British to American. This is why I haven't yet read Harry Potter - I'm holding out until I can surmount the expense of importing the British editions.

[Anonymous No.1078257]

>>1076579
Canadian here as well.
Seeing "Sorcerer's" makes me rage.

[Anonymous No.1078258]

If every Harry Potter ruled as hard as the third book and movie, I don't even want to think about what a HP geek I would be today. Luckily she got too famous for an editor and the movies got passed off onto people more talented than Alfonso Cuaron

[Anonymous No.1078281]

>>1078158

>...laughed the 30-year-old weeaboo virgin, as he posted his shitty reaction image from his japanese comic books, and squeezed his waifu pillow

[Anonymous No.1078296]

mfw my english professor said she considers harry potter literature