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Mr. Purple Cat Esq. - 2022-03-10

I did architecture in college.. It was a really really bad fit for me, its super arty farty (its a humanity essentially)

Trying to engage in the required bullshit so I could pass (as a naturally logical pragmatic person (eg. now I am a computer programmer)) really stressed me out. I had to engage in a form of cognitive dissonance perhaps.

Anyway at one point towards the deadline for my architecture thesis I pretty much shut down and got this case of hyper-procrastination. I would do *literally anything* but work on my thesis. One of my roommates had the harry potter books, and I read them all (I dont remember how many exactly), in one sitting, in basically a fugue state for the entire day.
It was a fucking nightmare. They were so poorly written, so fucking dumb, but they were there in the room. (we did not have internet)

Anyway thats my harry potter story, pls like and subscribe ring the bell and support my patreon for exclusive anus pics.


Nominal - 2022-03-10

I'm repeating myself, but I never got why anyone over the age of 9 could get so into them.

The Sorcerer's Stone is a blatant ripoff of School of Wizardry which was published only 7 years before.

They're written like baby-fied Terry Pratchett books, but with all the satire sucked out and they're trying to be serious a lot of the time. There's a ton of similar, much better options for the 12&up age. HP is suited for under 8, so it appeals to the narrow 8-11 gap?

There is a streak of 3 books where each one is nothing more than a setup for "Voldimort is coming back to take over!". When Volidmort finally does come back and take over, it's nearly glossed over while Harry & pals spend fifty chapters camping out in the woods pouting. The final couple books introduce a convoluted scavenger hunt on top of a convoluted scavenger hunt.

Transcribing it to the big screen resulted in movies that are just embarrassing to watch. (though to be fair, Discworld falls flat when it's on the screen, removed from the narration)

I just don't get how it became an enduring worldwide legacy with grown adults cosplaying Quidditch. No other children's series made adults act that cringey.


Nominal - 2022-03-10

School of Wizardry = Orphan boy lives unhappy life with foster family. Large bearded wizard visits to inform him of a magic school. Becomes besties with a boy and a girl there. Is antagonized by another student who is the spoiled brat of an evil rich family. A teacher takes him under his wing for extra lessons, turns out to be evil and tries to sacrifice him in order to summon a great evil.

It's a much better book though because the protagonist isn't a chosen one best at everything, born into cherished birthright Mary Sue. He's not special. He's not instantly popular. In fact, everyone else at the school is much better and he has to bust his ass with extra lessons just to barely keep up. It's more of a betrayal at the end because that teacher's help was the only thing keeping him from flunking out. The protagonist has to make a major sacrifice to stop him, and even then only slows him down enough for the adults to save the day.

Plus no Quidditch. Everything is better without Quidditch.


Pillager - 2022-03-10

Literary Amway.

Everyone I knew who read that pedestrian pabulum spoke like they joined a cult. Her mediocre writing was reason enough for me to stick with Dune & all things Lovecraftian.


Nominal - 2022-03-10

Even worse is hearing people I know praise Ready Player One. Ernest Cline's writing is so, so, so bad. It's E. L. James bad.

It's like a no talent incel tried to write Snow Crash, which is probably because Ernest Cline is a no talent incel who tried to write Snow Crash. Except Snow Crash predicted tech and nerd trends 15 years before they happened, while Cline doesn't have the slightest understanding of the same that happened 15 years in the past. It's early 90s understanding of VR meets early 90s dad understanding of online culture meets someone whose knowledge of nerd culture ended at 1978.

What I really don't get is the fans all turning on him calling Armada and Ready Player Two garbage, but they're the exact same as Ready Player One. "Sure his later books were terrible, but Ready Player One was good." No, no they were always garbage.


Nominal - 2022-03-10

For a good listen, check out Mike Nelson's bad book podcast "372 Pages You'll Never Get Back". The first book they cover is Ready Player One, which was so bad it inspired the idea for the entire podcast. You don't know HOW badly written it is until you actually see or hear it.


jfcaron_ca - 2022-03-10

My standard recommendation for children's wizard stories is Ursula LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" and the other Earthsea books. The movie & miniseries adaptations were awful enough that Ursula disavowed them before dying, but the books are really good. Conveniently they also lead to people then reading her adult fiction like Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed which are amazing.

We just had a baby boy but if it was a girl we woulda called her Ursula.


Nominal - 2022-03-10

Anyone know if Brandon Sanderson's adult stuff is any good? I made the mistake of listening to someone's recommendation for his Steelheart series, only to quickly realize it was YA fast food. Is his adult stuff like The Mistborn Saga any good?


ashtar. - 2022-03-10

I watched the first HP movie and it was boring. It's children's entertainment.

Like, I liked the Hardy Boys books when I was 10; but I don't base my life around them as an adult.

Ready Player One was the worst movie I've ever seen. Not just artistically offensive, but a symptom of cultural sickness. It made me reconsider and dislike Spielberg's other work retroactively.


jfcaron_ca - 2022-03-11

The only Brandon Sanderson stuff I read was the one where he finished The Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan died. He pulled off a realistic impersonation of Robert Jordan, with all the negatives that entails. I don't know what his own-created stuff is, but if they picked him because he's Jordanesque I'm not too interested anymore.
*crosses his arms beneath his breasts and tugs on his braids*


Cena_mark - 2022-03-11

I had no idea these books were so poorly written. Fuck this baby shit.


Braze - 2022-03-10

not going to watch this but 5-starring because it's 1:45 long


Cena_mark - 2022-03-11

Stuff like this helps me get through housework.


Binro the Heretic - 2022-03-10

Once at a yard sale, I was selling some Terry Pratchett paperbacks (because I'd gotten hardcover versions) and a boy of about 13 was interested in "Guards! Guards!"

His mother asked me, "This isn't going to teach him real magic like Harry Potter does, is it?"


Nominal - 2022-03-10

40:18 the wretched abolitionist Hermoine


Nominal - 2022-03-10

Seriously, how was anyone surprised that Rowling turned out to be the way she was?


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