Rowling got a lot of credit for helping a lot of kids to read, but it’s clear many of them never read another book. Any other book
That book is one of the things that killed my interest in reading. I used to read a lot when I was a kid, after harry potter and school forcing me books I started hating it, until a couple years ago.
READ ANOTHER GODDAMNED BOOK.
ANY OTHER FUCKING BOOK ON THE PLANET JFC
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this is intentional propaganda because nobody and i mean NOBODY gives a shit about fantastic beasts
I liked the first movie. And I don’t even like Harry Potter.
The first one is pretty fun, the second is a baffling inexplicable mess, and the third one is so incredibly libshit while also being incomprehensible to the point where I’m sad they cancelled the franchise because I need to see where they go after “Wizard Hitler No. 1 is defeated by the power of vooooting”
The best stuff was the quirky funny magical creature stuff that the film is named after - unfortunately they doubled down on the E D G Y B O Y plot lines in the sequels. In another universe Fantastic Beasts is a pure kid’s movie about a British guy on a magical adventure and it’s really good.
There’s a third one? So hard to keep up with slop these days
Yeah it kinda came and went really fast, almost like the studio was embarrassed by it.
After watching the second one, I’ve pretty adamantly refused to watch anything else in the series. A shame. They had potential.
Same
As impossible to name a best author of all time as it is it’s Ursula K Le Guin.
Honestly actually an impossible question to answer if you read more than 10 books. But imagine even trying to answer it with JK. Just shows the incredible lack of breadth of their reading. Like even if you like Harry Potter still despite it’s general mediocrity (with lots of racism) it’s so clear that they aren’t like the best of all time if you continued reading other things once you finished them.
I was gonna say Robin Hobb, but damn you right tho
I should read some of her for sure!
without her the wizarding world Harry Potter and fantastic beasts wouldn’t exist
I already hate her you don’t have to convince me
was genuinely bewildered by some people i was hanging out with a few weeks ago just completely out of nowhere getting into a harry potter discussion. like these absolutely normal progressive young people just have no scruples whatsoever to just go talk about harry potter in 2025 for like half an hour.
Just say they all sound like they belong in Hufflepuff.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, triggers potheads like telling them they belong in Hufflepuff.
Imagine actually mentioning fantastic beasts in this post
Like, you could have left it out, you didn’t have to name something more embarrassing to have authored than Harry potter, as incredible an achievement as it is to write something worse
It’s a story about wizards letting the holocaust happen like…
It’s a story about wizards letting the holocaust happen in a story whose set up was about cute animals. How do you bungle that so badly? After Harry Potter, low stakes animal adventures should have been an easy, inoffensive cash cow.
Honestly makes me think it’s a bit
That’s an awful lot of words to say you’ve never read a book that requires higher than 5th grade reading comprehension.
Do they know that somewhere between Chamber of Secrets and queer-bashing that the “greatest author to ever live” wrote another bathroom fact about wizards pooping on the floor?
I hate the fact so much. Even if we accept the premise that Hogwarts is a medieval castle that received renovations later in its life (and I suppose the ghost of Salazar Slytherin moved the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets to one of the new bathrooms), medieval castles had places to sit and poop.
The real reason why wizards wear robes
The books were an early stop in gaining confidence in reading.
I don’t think they’re irreplacable in that function. On the contrary, but discovering how awful Rowling is as i’ve grown up has been really incredibly depressing.
Same. I’ve got other authors from my childhood who were chuds but at least their books hold up.
I will stand by my love of Ender’s Game and its sequels till the day I die.
Speaker for the Dead remains one of my favorites of all time, although I wasn’t a huge fan of the Enders Shadow series the late sequels where the sci fi gets weird are great.
I’d agree with some of the sequels. It gets weird when the chinese do gene selection to make themselves tiny and autistic to better live in space
Same but I still need to read the sequels
Is Harry Thomas her Adrian Dittman?
what the hell would my life even be without Hairbeld Plonker and the Chombo of Sucrets!
she is definitely not the best author of all time. she is probably in the bottom 50, if there’s any superlatives to be had here.
also, the best author of all time is Chuck Liddell.
Chuck Tingle’s monthly novels are genuinely, unironically, better than anything Rowling ever shat onto paper
the best author of all time is Chuck Liddell
The pillow guy, right?
lol, no, it’s an early 2000s MMA guy who is mostly famous for beating people up and playing himself in movie cameos. he wrote a book though. pretty sure it’s mostly about getting jacked beating people up. I thought it would be a good bit to randomly claim him as my pick for greatest author of all time.
this is Chuck Liddell
Sorry, I should have made it obvious that I was using the similarities of their last names to make a joke.
But now that you’ve included a picture, we can keep this going!
Say, isn’t that the guy who got Reagan shot?
First of all, how dare you
didn’t she release a book under a psuedonym and it got panned and nobody bought it?
I wish
she released a completely libbed up political thriller called The Casual Vacancy under her own name that nobody liked. then she switched to a male pseudonym that totally coincidentally happens to be the name of the guy that created conversion therapy to start a series of bad detective novels that are all 1000+ pages long, include groundbreaking ideas like a cross dressing serial killer, and yet sell incredibly well because we live in a simulation projected out of Ayn Rand’s death hallucinations
I’ve forgotten so many reasons to hate this person and yet they keep coming
Said pseudonym was “Robert Galbraith”, the name of an infamous doctor responsible for pioneering electroshock “conversion therapy” as a “cure” for queerness.
why is this okay? how is that any different than being like “yeah my name is adolf hitler”?
Dogwhistles are meant to be only heard by dogs
Come to think of it, it’s really on brand for her to come up with a really obvious and offensive fake name.
An entire series even and yes the first book sold like shit before she decided to come out as a woman.
Before Rowling’s identity as the book’s author was revealed, 1,500 copies of the printed book had been sold since its release in April 2013, plus another 7,000 copies of the ebook, audiobook, and library editions. The book surged from 4,709th to the best-selling novel on Amazon after it was revealed on 14 July 2013 that the book was written by Rowling under the pseudonym “Robert Galbraith”.
Really shows how shit her writing skill is beyond a children’s book level
I tried to read The Order of the Phoenix when I was a child but quickly gave up because it was just soooo damn tedious to go through all the unnecessary information. But granted, I didn’t like the movie either, and even though I’ve watched the first 4 multiple times, I never bothered with the last 2 because of that mess of a story.
There’s actually eight movies cuz they split book seven into two parts lmao
As you can see, I really don’t give a shit about the last …well 3 movies.
Wrong. Chuck Tingle is the greatest author to ever live and it’s not even close.
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I’m sorry…her Wizarding World? Isn’t it all just existing mythology?? Maybe the gophers who are horny for gold were hers but wizards, ghosts, dragons, mandrakes, hippogriffs, wands, antisemitic goblins were all around for hundreds of years before she shat out her books. If she had been hit by a bus and died in 86 when she was unhoused, ChatGPT would be writing Harry Potter right now.
Existing mythology but somehow always worse because it’s all filtered through a boring posh British lense
Perfect example, dragons
What do most people think of when they think of a dragon? Maybe Smaug from the Hobbit or the eternal dragon from Dragonball but the dragons in Harry Potter couldn’t be further from either of those, she wrote her dragons to be big stupid fire-breathing flying lizards because she has literally no imagination
Excellent point! All the spectacle of dragons, but none of the social commentary.
