seems accurate to me

These are all mutually exclusive, you can only pick one

Trotskyists are well known for their support of Mao :chairman:

You are dealing with a mind steeped in the psychosis of the British press. There is little hope of return from that void.

because when youre reading about wizard shenanigans, the prose take a backseat to the magic sparkles.

plus people really love them some magical academy.

I was a weird kid. I never found school settings relatable. I found them boring and mundane.

^^^^ and the competent films. I know it was popular before they made those, but the movies definitely elevated it massively

Harry Potter books are good, satisfying stories for kids just starting to read.

All ideas in fiction are stolen

Harry Potter was literally the first book I read by myself, when I was like 8 or 9. They aren’t young adult (except maybe the last few). They’re for children. They may not be original, but to a kid they are extremely engaging. I never said they’re the best, but their enormous popularity is because they know how to push all the right buttons of a kid who’s the same age as the characters and they don’t take themselves too seriously.

I just don’t know why everyone here has to hate the silly children’s fantasy books so fucking much. Obviously JKR is a big sack of shit, but you literally recommended Ender’s Game. And the brand HP has grown into is bloated and terrible, especially the newest movies, but the originally books do what they set out to do well.

Uh… About Ender’s Game…

While those are good books you’ve listed you have to admit that they are not exactly books for beginners. I started Harry Potter when I was 10, I wasn’t going to be reading the Mistborn trilogy at that age.

Damn. Didn’t expect to see a Belgariad reference on my Chapo.chat. That was a favorite of mine. I regret to inform you that David Eddings is canceled, however

percy jackson is better imo

Probably, but Harry Potter predates it.

100% and Rick Riordan seems like a cool dude.

Definitely points that kids just starting to read are going to pick up on…

The same reason Dan Brown became popular around the same time - magical/conspiratorial goings on that are very unlike the mundane reality wrapped in infantile prose that is very easy to digest without much effort. The McDonald’s of literature.

They were entertaining books.

What if we take something common and mundane, bu… but make it magic!

I bet you one million dollars Rowling has zero fucking clue what a “Trotskyist” is.

In the UK, it seems like “trotskyist” is used pretty much the same way as “antifa” is here in the US. It’s a nebulous concept of some kind of sinister group of bad people who do bad things, and if anything bad happens, well, what do you know, looks like they were to blame.

Based on what I saw in the Labour leaks, it would seem “trot” is essentially used like “tankie” over there

I know an older fellow (think mid fifties) who was leafleting for Corbyn’s Labour in 2017 and had random passersby call him a Trot. The joke’s on them because he used to be a Trot and once visited Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico.

trotskyist is a nebulous concept of some kind of sinister group of bad people who do bad things, and if anything bad happens, well, what do you know, looks like they were to blame.

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