• Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    #piratepotter don’t let a dime go to Rowling or those trying to benefit from her.

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          12 days ago

          Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy *

          ~* All five of them. Six if you count Mostly Harmless.~

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              1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
              2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
              3. Life, the Universe and Everything
              4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
              5. Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
              6. Mostly Harmless

              This is according to The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide from 1996. I will certainly be checking out And Another Thing.

              ~So I guess there are seven books to the trilogy.~

              Edit: Ooooh, that explains it. And Another Thing wasn’t written by Adams. No wonder I never heard of it.

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        Got kids? Percy Jackson (and the other Rick Riordan written) series are great. Older kids? Get them reading chuck wendig or Margaret Killjoy.

        Introduce yourself to Kafka and Marquez and Butler and Morrison and so many other great great writers who make JK Rowling look like the utter hack she is.

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          I just finished The Staircase In The Woods by Chuck Wendig. Holy shit, what an epic book. I am going to read more Chuck because I loved it so much.

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        As someone who doesn’t have the nostalgia goggles for HP, it’s always insane to me how many adults still love that shit. They’re YA novels… Like read a grown-up book, and maybe you’ll realize how mediocre they were.

        It’s like Disney Adults…

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          Not even a grown-up book! Read a different magical fantasy book aimed at children or teenagers. And see how good those are, too. Many of them were written before Harry Potter.

          I do think HP is good at the pacing and mystery aspect of it. The magical world isn’t really that alluring, unless you are a 12 year old kid in 2001 who never read another book until now.