Y’know, the books/movies about wizards and whatnot. I have heard of it, but weirdly never read a book or (vaguely, can’t remember) watched a movie of it. Just curious on what are your thoughts on it?

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    Loved them as a kid and even a teen, read them more times than I cared to admit. Was very emotionally invested, it was my primary source of extreme escapism.

    As just a regular guy, I would say they are still entertaining and imaginative.

    As a communist, I will say they are ridden with standard bad takes and that the author is a total POS who basically stole the book idea and has wasted her adult life obsessively hating trans women.

    I cannot ever ignore the massive impact on me in ways that would take an essay to describe. But I don’t know if I could ever recommend it to another person, even with a big fat asterisk.