Colleen&Potato
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Do you like Harry Potter (the books)?
Noted, Lew never goes to the gym.Because my changing clothes are in the gym bag which has gone back into hibernation.
Same! Especially when it comes to the first book of each series.I liked the books better than the movies. Also true of Twilight, Hunger Games, and Divergent.
You may want to check out the idea of Death of the Author. This divorces the author's works and your interpretation and enjoyment of them from the IRL person who the author is. Of course that's only if you already own or have access to those works, or if the author is dead. Buying the books right now of course will financially benefit the author which is not what most would want to do for a person they don't like.I suppose I like the books. It's an entertaining series. I do not have anything to do with it anymore. The author is a bad person who I do not support. Any support of the series goes to the author. Monetarily that is.
One's the second-most widely read piece of literature in the English language (The Bible is first) and basically kicked-off the whole fantasy genre while the other invented a game that makes no sense at all.It's like Lord of the Rings for a younger generation.
Yeah, HP was very much a social phenomenon. The books are OK, but it's the fandom that really made it great. You could find someone interested / very opinionated about HP in nearly every group.The closest we came to -- and we know some books -- was Gone with the Wind and that was only by adults from a much smaller population so the conclusion was 'no.'
I totally understand that.I suppose I like the books. It's an entertaining series. I do not have anything to do with it anymore. The author is a bad person who I do not support. Any support of the series goes to the author. Monetarily that is.
There are an absurd amount of parallels between LotR and HP, i won't get into most of them, but I will say that The One Ring, is a Horcrux. The thing that I actually like about LOTR is that, despite it being a fantasy world, there is actually a surprisingly small amount of magic in the book. The vast majority of it being relegated to Elven lands, or the forces of Mordor.One's the second-most widely read piece of literature in the English language (The Bible is first) and basically kicked-off the whole fantasy genre while the other invented a game that makes no sense at all.