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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I tried to read Twilight on a dare once. I dare anyone to suggest JK's writing is worse than Stephenie Meyer. A lot of popular fantasy and YA isn't much better than fan fiction. Hunger Games feels even more derivative in many ways but I don't know if that hurts it.

I agree HP isn't great art. I read the books once when they came out and that was enough for me. It was a genuine cultural phenomenon though. In the late 90s. early 2000s, before iPhone, Facebook, Youtube it was just some pop culture that filled in the many hours of analog leisure time. It brought joy to a lot of people and relieved some boredom for others. The series had good and bad. The good was the accessibility and interest it generated in reading for a relatively wide audience. Given JK's current reputation as a person I think it is too easy to dwell on the bad and completely ignore the rest. It is reasonable to cease supporting the HP franchise though. Whatever its merits it had run its course a long time ago.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Some people really like Twilight -- maybe you are not the target demographic.

I really liked the first 4 Harry Potter books as a kid. I don't really agree with the criticism above. I thought it was cool to read about this little boy like me discovering magic and exploring a cool castle and fighting dark wizards.

There is a lot of criticism I agree with -- like isn't it weird that Harry's magic society is a capitalist paradise where he buys wands and his poor best friend spends their lottery windfall on a vacation so they must not be that poor, and anyway how can you have poverty in a post-scarcity magical society?

But on the other hand it was so relatable to see Harry go on shopping trips because that's what I was doing in the 90s/2000s, and having feelings about how the rich kid's dad always paid for him to have cool toys like a nimbus 2001...

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

twilight target demographic were young female teens,