/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16247374]

What am I in for?

[Anonymous No.16247388]

An okay children's book

[Anonymous No.16247392]

>>16247374
Americanised pap

[Anonymous No.16247401]

>>16247374
Okay, here goes:
Book 1: Comfy mystery and worldbuilding
Book 2: Slightly darker and more political mystery
Book 3: Good worldbuilding, and nice twist
Book 4: High point of the series, action, adventure, worldbuilding
Book 5: Low Point of the series, political drama and a slog to read
Book 6: Ominous mystery and feeling of impending doom
Book 7: The Children's Crusade, a desperate chase, and final victory.

/lit/ will mock this series, but it is an excellent way to get a young child into reading. The series grows with it's audience, and the 11 year old who finishes it is ready to explore further works, more confident in his or her reading ability. I definitely plan on giving it to my kids someday :)

[Anonymous No.16247407]

Harry Potter is the literary equivalent to McDonald's. Don't waste your time.

[Anonymous No.16247432]

>>16247401
Or you could just give them Flashman which parodies the child rape prison themes. Or you could give them Orwell who critiques them. Or you could give them Zola who side steps them.

Most manga are less perverse than giving working class children magic bourgeois rape camp fiction.

[Anonymous No.16247440]

>>16247407
But I like McDonald's

[Anonymous No.16247443]

>>16247432
>rape
Okay, I've never heard this critique and I'm curious? How does HP have rape as a theme? The only thing I can think of is how Voldermort's mother drugged his father.

For the record, I do recommend the publishing line "Great Illustrated Classics" for young readers, more so than any other fiction.

[Anonymous No.16247449]

>>16247374
It's terf propaganda. Don't read.

[Anonymous No.16247469]

>>16247407
Harry Potter is quite a dense series with a lot of references and presumes that the reader is well read. I would suggest following this chart.

[Anonymous No.16247565]

>>16247374
A comfy kids book series that gets boring and unnecessarily complicated at book 5

[Anonymous No.16247590]

>>16247565
Pretty much. I distinctly remember how boring the fifth book was as a kid. The only interesting part of the entire book was Dumbledore showing up at the end and wrecking Voldemort. The sixth book went back to being pretty decent, and then the last book was an absolute trainwreck

[Anonymous No.16247638]

>>16247590
At least you finished, kudos

[Anonymous No.16247684]

>>16247374
Trans will cry about literally ANYTHING. Some woman saying women have periods -WHINE WHINE AND FUCKING WHINEEE

[Anonymous No.16247827]

>>16247440
So morbidly obese.

[Anonymous No.16247891]

>>16247374
I recently reread the first part and found it really weirdly paced, mostly rushed as fuck. The whole school year is over in like 50 pages and the actual plot comes out of nowhere. That never bothered me as a kid, but all these years later, I can only see it as a really shallow book where the characters behave like amusement park guides.

[Anonymous No.16247956]

>>16247374
Stretched legs

[Anonymous No.16247987]

>>16247374
a comfy read aimed at 11 year olds

[Anonymous No.16248080]

>>16247827
If it wasn't for gaining 20 lbs after moving in with my now wife 6 months ago I would still be underweight for my height. I'm just a sucker for those nuggies

[Anonymous No.16248090]

>>16247374
>Sorcerer's

[Anonymous No.16248107]

>>16248090
Yes I live in the United States

[Anonymous No.16248112]

>>16247401
Pretty much this, it's a good series for young teenagers. It gets a bad reputation because some people become stuck in some kind of stunted phase where they obsess over brand series and never mature. It's rarely a good analogy for anything in politics.

>>16248107
Why did they change it?

[Anonymous No.16248139]

>>16247374
it's actually got some funny parts, i was surprised they cut out so many funny scenes in the movies that were in the books.

[Anonymous No.16248157]

>>16248112
>Why did they change it?
Americans don't really have the connotation of magic with philosopher.

[Anonymous No.16248166]

>>16247469
Honestly just not funny

[Anonymous No.16248210]

>>16247374
In addition to what others have said:
Book 1-4: aimed at males and females
Book 5: just a shit book
Book 6-7: aimed at females
If Rowling ended it properly (Harry dies, there was a good Slytherin that wasn't a cuck like Snape etc.) then it would be way more popular among guys

[Anonymous No.16248248]

>>16248157
But philosopher's stone is an ages-old magical (alchemical) concept not really related to philosophers.

[Anonymous No.16248252]

>>16248210
It would've helped if the grand finale of the series weren't just teenagers camping in the woods for 500 pages, bitching and whining at each other

[Anonymous No.16248257]

>>16247401
>The series grows with it's audience,

It really doesn't. There is nothing particularly mature about "woah important character dies".

[Anonymous No.16249527]

>>16247374
Read A Series of Unfortunate Events instead, assuming you are in middle school. If you are an adult, you should probably just avoid HP. Maybe watch the first two or three movies.

[Anonymous No.16249550]

>>16248210
>there was a good Slytherin that wasn't a cuck like Snape etc.) then it would be way more popular among guys
This is a good point. Most guys I knew who read the books or watched the movies were more interested in Slytherin than any other house. Not just the edgelords who would side with any "evil" faction in their dumb fantasy books. Women like to LARP as Ravenclaws or Hufflepuffs for stupid reasons, and it really shows how cancerous HP is to young women who fancy themselves to be smart: the would-be Ravenclaws believe they're hot enough shit to be in the smartest house, the would-be Hufflepuffs want to appear "quirky" for choosing the loser house. Men want to be badass so they prefer the pseudo-Nazis or the generic hero Gryffindors.

[Anonymous No.16249662]

>>16247374
Why did she call it the Sorcerer’s Stone and not the Philosopher’s Stone as it’s actually called?

[Anonymous No.16250606]

>>16247443
>The only thing I can think of is how Voldermort's mother drugged his father.
Well, there you go. That was rape.

[Anonymous No.16250979]

>>16247374
Just read it and make your opinion for yourself. You don't really need some anons telling you what is considered good and what is not. Don't recite some opinion just because it is either contrarian or is held by the majority.

Make your own mind!

[Anonymous No.16250993]

you knowbthat scene in hunger games

[Anonymous No.16251173]

>>16250979
I'm 180 pages in and enjoying it well enough

[Anonymous No.16251205]

>>16251173
That's it. And also, some kinds of books just shouldn't be read for knowledge or for a bigger cause. Some of them are just for your enjoyment. Don't expect something from a book that wasn't there from the start.

Godspeed anon! I, myself, really liked this series when I was an adolescent.

[Anonymous No.16251229]

>>16251205
Ya I just finished some /lit/ meme reads (republic, Moby Dick) and just want an easy comfy read. My sister had all 7 books lying around at our parents house so I figured I'd give it a shot

[Anonymous No.16251242]

>>16249550
As soon as you start looking closely at the Harry Potter series you realise Rowling basically still has the mentality of a teenage girl. That's why she's able to write so well for children, because she stopped developing intellectually when she was about 14.

[Anonymous No.16251620]

>>16247374
dogshit

[Anonymous No.16251898]

>>16248210
>a good Slytherin that wasn't a cuck like Snape

This just made me realize something.
The central feature of House Slytherin is extreme individualism and loyalty to a small circle of close ones.
Snape demonstrates the pathological side of Slytherins even when they don't become magic Nazis: even after joining the "good guys", he dedicates the rest of his life not to himself, or to other people in general, or to higher ideals, but to obsessing over one dead person. That's interesting to think about.

I think this about cements my opinion on Harry Potter. It may not be canon-tier, but to inspire such detailed analyses (even by people who seem to absolutely hate it ITT!) so many years later, it must have done something right. I don't think you can achieve that through sheer pandering and marketing.

So yeah. Harry Potter is good. Don't @ me.