/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12039633]

I enjoy JK Rowling's writing

[Anonymous No.12039657]

She has quite a decent body of work tbqh

[Anonymous No.12039673]

I hate to be Harold Bloom here but Harry Potter isn't a story that kids learn anything from. It's entertaining enough to babysit them for 100 hours, but it is nothing compared to, say, the Earthsea Chronicles or The Hobbit. Hell, even the Eragon series is better because Paolini pretty much copied Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. I know, I'm a snob, but more people should be. Hate to be Harold Bloom here I really do.

[Anonymous No.12039683]

>>12039633
I want Mommy to press her milkies on my face!

[Anonymous No.12039684]

am I banned

[Anonymous No.12039812]

>>12039673
why do kids need to learn a story from something

you didactic twat

[Anonymous No.12039825]

>>12039684
yes
next question please

[Anonymous No.12039831]

>>12039657
>She has quite a decent body.
Yes, although I do not like her.

[Anonymous No.12039846]

>>12039673
what do you meanthere is notting to learn from harry potter? i unironically wouldnt have ever learned to love reading if it weren’t for the harry potter books. my mom would read them to me starting when i was 5 or 6 and i read the last few on my own. we were very poor so idid t get a lot of “education is FUN” activities so id probably be retarded if it werent for those books

[Anonymous No.12039877]

>>12039673
>Eragon
>better than anything

lol no

[Anonymous No.12039884]

>>12039673
Que? It has all kinds of useful lessons, eg Nazis are bad.

[Anonymous No.12039887]

>>12039673
they learn spells dipshit

[Anonymous No.12039890]

i remember the kid from middle school who had never read a harry potter book because his father was a minister and he wouldnt allow it

[Anonymous No.12039892]

>>12039890
Based and Christpilled.

[Anonymous No.12039907]

>>12039892
desu his dad was right

[Anonymous No.12040027]

>>12039633
Me too, both of them.

[Anonymous No.12040111]

>>12039673
>Hell, even the Eragon series is better
Yeah, no.

[Anonymous No.12041507]

You can say whatever you want but her books are what got me obsessed with reading as a kid and I haven't stopped since. I recently listened to all the audio books while commuting and this series is comfy as fuck. Sure it's predictable at times and lacks depth but it has some pretty good characters and decent world building. It's fine for teenagers.

[Anonymous No.12041586]

>>12039673
Who gives a fuck what you think is better? I've read The Hobbit and the other LOTR and even Carrol's Alice and immensely enjoyed them all as a kid and teenager, but not for one second does that mean you cant enjoy Harry Potter, you fucking dilettante pseud. Along with shit like goosebumps and other scifi genre Harry Potter actually made me interested in seeking out similar and better books as well as trained me in stamina for long periods of reading, reading comprehension, and not to mention exercising my imagination with an interesting concept. Fuck off with your high and mighty Harold "'bout to croak" Bloom faggot bullshit.

[Anonymous No.12041647]

It's a free country, but I can't imagine how you could enjoy one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

[Anonymous No.12041676]

>>12041647
Are you the creator of that jpeg? Please explain your decision behind every choice.

[Anonymous No.12041694]

>>12041676
"No!"

[Anonymous No.12041719]

>>12039673
Excuse me sweetie, but millions and millions of people use her writings as inspiration to fight back against hate, Trump and Brexit.

[Anonymous No.12041721]

>>12039673
I think that it has some decent lessons about friendship- something that is important for children- but I'm sure other books can do a better job with those lessons. As an adult, however, there are more difficult and more potent works that one should prioritize above reading HP.

[Anonymous No.12041724]

>>12041676
Well, basically, it is objective and irrefutable fact that The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon are some of the greatest works of literature penned by man.
Meanwhile, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner, 1984 by George Orwell, Hypersphere by Anonymous, How to Read a Film by James Monaco, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, while laudable, do not quite have universal literary merit.
The Trial by Franz Kafka, Glow in the Dark by Kanye West, Ulysses by James Joyce, Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Sculpting in Time by Andrey Tarkovsky are all similar in that they are profoundly average, and one may take or leave them as one chooses.
There is almost nothing whatsoever to recommend itself about The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and no true intellectual would have an interest in any of these volumes except perhaps for the novelty of the plebian experience.
Finally, it is my firm belief that A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are all worthless drivel of the highest order, completely unpalatable to the refined thinker.
Hope this helps!

[Anonymous No.12041746]

>>12041724
That was a re-summation of the jpeg, and though you prove the old equation of picture > words, it is otherwise not helpful in any way!

[Anonymous No.12041749]

>>12041507
I think the issue is that a lot of people don't move on from HP. They cling to it like it's the only book series they'll ever need.

[Anonymous No.12041750]

>>12041694

Is it because your a computer program who has no real opinion beyond your programmed, automatic responses?

[Anonymous No.12041752]

>>12041749
I think the issue is that a lot of people don't move on from Mein Kampf. They cling to it like it's the only book series they'll ever need.

[Anonymous No.12041756]

>>12041752
I imagine that is the case for another obsessed demographic, yes.

[Anonymous No.12042133]

I never read anything of hers and probably never will because I think her philosophy is abhorrent. She's a basic bitch leftist and her virtue signaling and making characters gay long after the fact is pathetic. That sort of "diversity" really annoys me.

[Anonymous No.12042190]

>>12039633
Absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.12042193]

What's a passage that you like in particular?

[Anonymous No.12042201]

>>12042133
>Hurr I never said Hermione was white guiz

[Anonymous No.12043066]

>>12041586
This is a very good post. Figures anon didnt reply to it.

[Proud Social Justice Warrior !BgjMIiqmkk No.12043221]

Sometimes I compare her with GRRM and it makes me think of a fundamental strength women seem to have. She wrote all of those books in a very reasonable timeframe, despite all the external pressures fame brought her after the first 2-3 books. Whether it be in school, work or hobbies, women in general just seem to be far more capable of finishing their shit than men are.

[Anonymous No.12043238]

>>12043221
Men are more obsessive.

[Anonymous No.12043249]

>>12039673
Harry Potter is a far better telling of the Hero's Journey than any other fantasy literature

[Anonymous No.12043326]

>>12039673
I read them growing up. They weren't much more than page turners for me. The only thing I remember thinking was "what will happen next?" Books like To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies actually made me do some thinking. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with Harry Potter books, but trying to teach kids to be brave and stand up for their friends are pretty basic lessons for kids old enough to read their first novels. The books worked because they were original and creative as hell (yet relatable), not because they necessarily had a lesson to teach us. They were fun, but people oversell the impact the books had on them.

[Anonymous No.12043364]

>>12039633
Goddamn, putting aside the money and fame wouldn't say no honestly.

[Anonymous No.12043427]

>>12039673
>even the Eragon series is better

I would become full on Harry Potter defense force before I ever admit Eragon was in any way remotely passable.