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⌈ Secret Post #5579 ⌋

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Comments

DA

[(Anonymous)]

"ReadAnotherBookitis"

Despite hating the author, I can at least look through my hate goggles enough to see the objectivity of the fact that the books are good and most people I met when in the fandom were avid readers.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I actually like(d) the books too, but it’s undeniable the “Read Another Book” meme is valid for some of these people. The meme originated before JKR was transparent about her TERFy views, and is mostly poking fun of the fact that some of the hardcore fans of HP have HP as the only book series they’ve read, and they mostly only read them because of the hype.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with that on it’s own. Not being into most books isn’t a bad thing, to each their own about what type of media people prefer or not. And some bookworms can be very snobby and elitist about the HP books, and they’ve been that way ages before JKR went Mask Off. But when they some of the loudest vocal minority HP fans invade general book spaces in droves, and try to make every discussion about books and literature in general about HP, it’s understandable to get a little annoyed. Regardless of whether it’s fair to generalize all HP fans by these vocal minority fans, which it’s not, it’s still not hard to see where some of the frustrations with the franchise comes from. That’s where the meme and sentiment comes from.

So I decided to make a joke out of the meme with ReadAnotherBookitis, which I thought would obviously be taken in jest instead of taken as some kind of attack on anyone. Whether you think it’s funny or not is up to you, and I’m not even going to pretend I’m actually a funny person who tells good jokes either way. But it’s a little strange to me that that’s the thing you zeroed in on. Considering I never actually insulted the books by referencing the meme, especially one that’s been repeated in F!S by many other people before. And also considering that I was in no way insulting the character of avid readers, past or present, just by referencing the meme. Joking that the very vocal minority of JKR stans should read another book isn’t inherently saying they’re bad books, and all HP readers are bad people.

Sorry for the disconnect, but I didn’t mean for my comment to be an insult to the books or the whole fanbase.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

da

idk man, i've reread them and they're actually not particularly good. and i didn't read them to be a hater or anything, this was before she went frothing at the mouth terf.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT
I think they are good for their target audience, which I believe is children/young teens. JKR is not a bad writer by any means and the worldbuilding in Harry Potter is really cool and well done, but the characters are not particularly well written, if not for some notable exceptions.
It's very well done escapism with some great action scenes, but not an excellent 10/10 book series by any means.

I first read Harry Potter when I was 20 years old and I appreciated it as it was intended: a sometimes surprisingly dark adventure book about an orphan kid in a magic world aimed to children.
I despise JKR as a person due to her politics, but I'd encourage any 8-11 years old to read the books if they're into that type of stories.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

i gotta disagree, i was pretty disappointed by my reread. and you'd think the nostalgia goggles would have done anything, but nope, they're just not well written and their target audience has nothing to do with that. i read the neverending story recently, THAT is well written fiction for children