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>> No.18434986

*there

>> No.18435038

>>18434896
Is this America's equivalent of the Confucian classics?

>> No.18435054

>>18434896
I haven’t read the books but I have a friend who loves them. I watched the first two movies years ago so I don’t know what’s so bad about Harry Potter?

>> No.18435269

>>18434986
OP and this post should be a banner for /lit/

>> No.18435385

>>18435269
This.

>> No.18435390

>>18434896
>than
then
ftfy

>> No.18436895

>>18435054
at best, Harry Potter is serviceable fantasy for young readers. But it's super derivative and stylistically, nothing spectacular. Even as a kid, I stopped after the fourth one.

Too many adult readers still think they're good.

>> No.18436901

>>18434896
*bookes

>> No.18436906

>>18434896
I never read any of them
Sorcery is devil’s work

>> No.18436909

>>18434896
These books helped me learn to read and I loved them when I was younger. Are there flaws? Sure but overall it was a great thing for literature as a whole. Many people reading fantasy or even reading in general would not be doing so without these books.

>> No.18436910

The movies are comfy. Especially around Christmas or Halloween time.

>> No.18436924

>>18436895
>But it's super derivative
besides alice in wonderland, derivative of what?

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>>18434896
>The books suck but their better than the movies
>*there
>There books suck, but their badder than the movies.
>There, books suck, but here their better up with movies.
>There, books suck, but here they're batter's up with mookie.

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>>18436934
nice post, but it's not going to dissolve my hunger for trannies' nut butter

>> No.18436942

>>18436909
It's a cultural touchstone, but I wouldn't quite give it *that* much credit. If Harry Potter didn't come out, something else would have taken its place. Fantasy's always been popular, but HP was published at the right place/time for it to be massively commercially successful.

Twilight's the same way, got a lot of people into reading... but you don't hear claims of that series being a great thing for literature. Both just products of appealing to a very commercially safe demographic.

>> No.18436945

>>18434986
fpbp

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>>18436924
Besides some obvious examples like LOTR and Star Wars and other 'hero's journey' derived stories...

It's got the same plot-pitch as Ursula Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea.

"Young gifted wizard boy gets magically attacked by a parasitic evil entity that becomes a part of him (by leaving a distinct scar on his face) and acts as his stalker, then goes to a wizarding school where he has a rivalry with an aristocratic douchebag" doesn't sound all that original when Le Guin did the exact same thing 30 years prior.

There's also Gaiman's Books of Magic.

>> No.18436962

>>18436938
moar horse dick trannies pls

>> No.18437001

>>18434896
>>18435054
Harry Potter doesn't "suck," it's genuinely one of the comfiest coming-of-age stories of all time.
The only thing that sucks is its adult fascination and fanbase. People have let that fact muddy their perception of the books themselves in a reactionary way.

>> No.18437039

>>18434896
It's good. Unlike most YA lit that's only engaging on a surface level for having an exciting plot or something, there are real symbols and meaning in it, much more than you would expect from a series written for kids. Harry's direct connection with Voldemort, his parallels as a character with Neville, Snape's love for Lily are just a couple interesting ideas that go way below the surface.
It's not Nabokov. If you are 25 you'd be better served by reading something else. But if you are a middle schooler reading HP you have some pretty good tast.

>> No.18438135

>>18434896
Harry never learned how to turn into an animal. After 8 years he never surpassed his father, couldnt teleport, and barely ever solved shit on his own.

>> No.18438350

>>18434986
they're*

>> No.18439428

>>18438350
>>18436934
>>18436901
>>18435390
>>18434986
the state of /lit/ instead of addressing OP's thread these nigs just shitpost.
Also comfy movies and books btw.

>> No.18439449

>>18434896
Yes. But rereading them would be an ordeal, while rewatching one of them movies can be comfy.

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>> No.18439499

>>18439449
This. I have HBO max and just watched them all. Wasn't what I was hoping but I was over all satisfied with the movies. But Ron and Hermione relationship was very disappointing.

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>>18435038
>Harry Potter
>American

Low self-esteem euros try to insult Americans can’t even remember their own achievements