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Now that the dust has settled, can Harry Potter be part of a healthy reading diet?

>> No.11776143

>>11776119
I’d dip my toes in those waters if you know what I mean.
at least she drinks; could make for a funny story

>> No.11776150

>>11776119
all i read is 4chan so its all uphill to me bruv

>> No.11776152

She seems like she is easy to impress

>> No.11776512

>Western Sydney Uni

pfff

>> No.11776526

> uws
Stay away.
> Writing a couple of novels
Really, stay away
> Not looking for sex
:/

>> No.11776541

>>11776526
Also, note that last part. She alludes to being a tumblrina, "self-diagnosed", and also, she reads "novels". This bitch is an NPC

>> No.11776544

>>11776119
Not really. Rowling is a hack and a fraud.

>> No.11776548

>>11776541
Ah, the anti-female NPC that labels other NPCs

Let me geuss
>Athiest

>> No.11776574

>>11776548
What? Anti-female?
Having an obsession with reading 'novels' reveals that one doesn't ever read anything good. She sounds like the kind of person who would read Great Gatsby and her assessment being, 'I didn't like the ending.'
Jesus, maybe you should learn. I didn't type anything against women, I typed against this particular woman, and it had nothing to do with her sex.
Let me guess, you love Peterson and read Dostoyevsky.

>> No.11776573

>>11776119
An actual intellectual on Tinder. You don't see that everyday. Haha.

>> No.11776690

>>11776512
>goes to Super-Tafe

>> No.11776706

>>11776119
how do you guys deal with highly intellectual girls like this? i always get so nervous

>> No.11776711

>>11776706
I put on my robe and wizard hat

>> No.11776728

>>11776690
It's even worse. At least Tafe prepares you for employment

>> No.11776744

>>11776706
I let her hear my Lemony Snicket impression.

>> No.11777096

>>11776711
kek'd and check'd

>> No.11779027

You know, those Harry Potter books, you know they’re for children, don’t you? They’re aimed at children. People do that to me, "Have you read the new Harry Potter book, it’s good, have you read it?" No, I haven’t read it, because I’m a forty-year-old man. "You should read it, it’s about a wizard in a school." I’m not reading it! I’m a grown man — I’m an adult! "Have you read Harry Potter and the...and the Tree of Nothing?" No, I haven’t. I haven’t read it, but I have read the complete works of the romantic poet and visionary William Blake. So fuck off.

>> No.11779053

>>11776119
>kilometers

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11779110

>>11776152

This is how it will commence

>"So what books have read recently, anon?"
>"Euhmm...well I recently finished reading a book by Nietzsche and now I'm reading Antigone by Sophocles!"
>"Ohh...I dunno what those things are anon but you should totally read Looking for Alaska by John Green! Oh my god, he's such a great writer!"

>> No.11779140

>>11779110
Unfortunately true

>> No.11779169

Usually 180lbs and leftist if they mention hp in their bio. I hate when they mention what they sorting hat would have place them under. Women aren’t funny.

>> No.11779185

>>11776119
>fantasy
>healthy
no, not in our time. the stakes are too high brother.

also that girl is not thicc she is F A T. and probably retarded from the way she types.

>> No.11779189

>>11776119
Not for adults

That girl is just another image-conscious dumb cumdumpster.

>> No.11779194

>>11776119
Those dainty kebabs wrapped around the crystal stem of a milkshake vat look tempting.

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11779243

>>11776574
wow, you are fuming
get a fucking grip

>> No.11779251

>>11776119
well at least she's honest.

right?

>> No.11779267

>>11779140
Tomorrow night I will be seeing for the second time the /lit/est qt I've ever met. Incredibly, through Tinder. She studies philosophy, loves cinema and has such an incredible taste on music... It frightens me. She's 26 years old and me, 18. First time I met her I couldn't even believe it was real. Well, patrician women do exist. I'm in love with one.

>> No.11779270

>>11779110
>"I actually read Looking for Alaska and was very disturbed by blatant misogyny of using the 'manic pixie dream girl' trope. You should really be more conscientious of damaging and sexist stereotypes in books"
in this way, her every thought and opinion will be bent to my will

>> No.11779441

>>11776119
that much pretentiousness with absolutely nothing to back it up

>> No.11779940

>>11776119
No.

>> No.11780101

>>11776711
fuck I'm old

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11780260

>>11779185
What are the these steaks that are too high, brother? Why should I stop reading my fantasy novel?

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11780299

>>11779270

>"haha, oh anon I really don't understand you and your difficult words! Oh by the way, have you read the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck? It's GREAT!

>> No.11780306

>>11776541
My visual cortex automatically filled in the round, puffy, short-coiffed head above the crop but the image is flickering back and forth between too much makeup and not enough.

>> No.11780317

>>11776119
If u read all potter books it's quite an achivment.

>> No.11780333

>>11776119
It's my opinion that the Harry Potter books are really great for anyone growing up. I wouldn't consider them to be "masterworks of fiction" but they will be considered (one of these days as) "timeless classics" and we'll continue to see young adults reading this series far into the future.

Really there's nothing morally objectionable to the books either and the story is nice. In a sense I feel that the first 4 books are really just a preface to make the last 3 books meaningful. However we also get to see a young man turn into an adult through hardship and trial. Again nothing wrong with that. Also the books offer an escape into a very well fleshed-out world of magic which can be very comforting to children dealing with issues at school or at home.

Still, there are higher works of fantasy fiction to read than Harry Potter. If people try to compare, say, something like LotR or the Shadow War Chronicles to Harry Potter I'd have a giggle at their expense.

>> No.11780355

>>11779267
are you excited to have her think about how poorly read you are the entire time?

Stop typing in memes and consider yourself lucky if you don't get stood up

>> No.11780401

>>11779267
Definitely FAT

>> No.11780413

>>11780333
I think the thing with Harry Potter is that it doesn't really lead anywhere. I'd like to think that books like LotR (that remains accessible to teenagers) are more of a gateway to literature as a whole, as I reckon it's quite easy to just end up stuck in the YA fiction mire.

>> No.11780448 [DELETED] 

>>11780413
Good point, and yeah that's true. It's really just a fun story and a fun universe, but outside of that it's not got a whole lot going on for it other than instilling basic morals and values.

>> No.11780456

>>11780413
Good point, and yeah that's true. It's really just a fun story and a fun universe, but outside of that its not got a whole lot going on for it other than instilling basic morals and values.

>> No.11780465

>>11780333

>they will be considered (one of these days as) "timeless classics"

They won't though.

>> No.11780471

>>11779110
>antigone
>neetzch
tryhard

>> No.11780488

>>11780465
Eh. There's worse books that have been considered classics because of rose-tinted glasses.

>> No.11780811

>>11780355
I know... I'm actually really afraid about losing her. She's smart and has huge repertoire in her field but on the other hand, she'sextremely kind as well. I have some interesting baggage on many subjects which she doesn't dominates, though. Also I've recently become quite fit, so that may help with the exoticism about dating youngsters.

>>11780401
She's actually thin and healthy. Please don't be jealous. I'm not even trying to impress, just sharing something that made me insanely happy with fellow /lit/zens.

>> No.11780814

>>11780488
Like?

>> No.11781433

>>11780814
Well to me personally Tom Sawyer comes to mind because not much happens in there besides Tom Sawyer being a douche and going to stop some injun dude in a cave (Huckleberry Finn is great tho, and by that I mean the book). Also (again, imo) The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for being far too heavy-handed with the religious rhetoric. Decent fantasy ideas but again not much else going for it other than it's Christian af.

>> No.11781447

>>11779267
How are you in love after 1 date?

>> No.11781451

>>11779267
Fuck you you child, you don't get to be a decade younger than me with this kind of opportunity while I'm still a khv

>> No.11781526

>>11776119
>Western Sydney University
Lol that place is literally the worst shithole in the country, they accept even the lowest highschool scores

>> No.11781539

>>11781526
ECU in Western Australia accepts students without a fucking tertiary entrance score.

>> No.11781682

>>11781539
To be fair, sandgropers should be held to a lower standard than the rest of us.

>> No.11782466

>>11776119
Harry Potter is the Mario of literature. People only consume their products because it's all they know, and any pseudo-normalfag-intellectual claims that its the Pinnacle of the medium.

>> No.11782469

>>11782466
Video games are the Harry Potter of mediums

>> No.11782566

>>11776711
I love you

>> No.11782573

>>11776711
blast from the past

>> No.11782688

She's actually drinking cum, look at the glass

>> No.11782722

>>11780471

Antigone is very accessible, plebfriend.

>> No.11782755

I have nothing against adult Harry Potter fans. But I really dislike people who have "reading" as part of her identity. 'I'm such an introvert smart gerl lol'

It's as meaningless as saying you like the internet.

>> No.11782808

>>11782469
Women are the video games of gender

>> No.11782822

>>11780333
>However we also get to see a young man turn into an adult through hardship and trial.

Actually there isn't so much hardship and trial as there is a special snowflake boy who is magically special and automatically good at everything. He is born with a fortune and and is naturally talented at sport (he even gets a special broomstick for free to make him even better!). He fights the bad guy not with skill but with luck and magically being immortal to him or something.

>> No.11782850

Someone post the the guy explaining how HP is basically neoliberal fantasy comprised of purely symbolic morally righteous activism.

Like ffs he's too much of a puss to actually kill the bad guy in the end.

>> No.11782938

>>11776119
>>11776512
>>11776526
>>11781526

I go to WSU
It's a shithole
But I'm stuck for another 4 years

>> No.11782957

>>11776119
bet you her prose is trash

>> No.11783071

>>11776119

Am I the only one who thinks people at university using Tinder is sad (especially when they claim they aren't there for sex)? It's fucking college. Turn off Netflix and go somewhere, join a club, enter a coffee shop or a bar and say 'hey do you like harry potter?' if you want to meet like-minded people. The fuck is she going to lose.

>> No.11783122

>>11783071
Do you really think tinder is for meeting like-minded people?

>> No.11783143

>>11780471
these are entry level lmao

>> No.11783150

>>11780333
>Really there's nothing morally objectionable to the books either and the story is nice.
They exacerbate the British class system by further romanticising public schools.

>> No.11783248

>>11776119
Imagine being this pretentious over a children's book

>> No.11783255

>>11776512
>>11776526
>t. UNSW

>> No.11783271

>>11776143
Scum.

>> No.11783274

>>11781433
>Oh noes religions in MY literature

>> No.11783286

>>11779027
haha you' re forty years old

>> No.11783288

>>11776574
The Great Gatsby is a novel

>> No.11783455

>>11783286
*your

>> No.11783608

>>11783150
There's literally nothing wrong with the British class system

>> No.11783729

>>11776143
Pretty sure about 95% of girls on tinder drink, dude

>> No.11784248

>>11780413
>doesn't really lead anywhere
I hadn't thought of it like that but you're right on the money. It needn't be like that for everyone who grows up reading the series, but every time someone portrays it as the end-all be-all of fantasy, fiction, literature, whathaveyou, it's absolutely tiresome.