/lit/ - Literature

>>15548301
because its dumb shit easy to read, kids dont want anything that requires them to think too hard. its hard enough too get them to read anything

>>15548301
When has society ever had idols targeted on a national/international scale towards developing minds? Millennials and zoomers are the first time this has ever happened, and the faggotry we are seeing in our world today is a direct effect.

>>15548301
They don't, anymore. Rowling is a transphobe and should be cancelled, remember?

>>15548301
Why does a grown-ass chad like yourself care enough to create these threads twice a day?

>>15548368
My sister is 27 and is currently rereading the series

>>15548301
Modern wage slavery doesn't satisfy anyone emotionally, and some people react by dreaming themselves into another world where things are different, as they lack whatever it is that turns some people towards religion as the answer. Some of them haven't consumed a lot of non-YA literature so that's the level their imagination stays in. Harry Potter is the World of Warcraft of literature.

>>15548317
>When has society ever had idols targeted on a national/international scale towards developing minds? Millennials and zoomers are the first time this has ever happened
Bollocks, it's been like this since "Robinson Crusoe".

>>15548301
Because it's Middle School level writing wise but also has the air that it's deeper than it is, at least to them. Nostalgia also obviously.

>>15548656
What the fuck man

>>15548301
because modern life is unfulfilling and this series provides easy escapism

>>15548664
I honestly refuse to believe the guy who owns that bookshelf is human. How could you commit so much devotion to such a mediocre book series? I don't understand.

>>15548301
Millenials were force-fed from the cradle that they could be anything they wanted to be, until they graaduated highschool and were thrust into a world where the expectation is that 99 out of 100 people go be a cog in a machine for 40-50 years and hope for retirment while filling their life with distractions.

The book is their end-all-be-all fantasy: a character who is special and can learn to do anything, and lives in a world with so many special and unique people. The antithesis of the grand reality that the average bloke leads a forgettable life.

Why do grown ass men still read Fantasy/fiction books at all? It's all escapism and meaningless entertainment, don't think too much about it.

>>15548656
I remember some guy having a shelf like that but with LoTR.

I didn’t read the books when I was growing up so I’m probably never gonna touch them, but I did watch the movies and I occasionally watch them to this day. It’s just a nice occasional nostalgia trip, especially because they’re a bunch of coming of age stories in the broad sense. I imagine the books may have the same appeal for an adult who’s a fast read and already familiar with them.

>>15548301
A lot of it has to do with the horoscope shit with the various houses the characters come from.
I tried reading HP back in the early 2000s and found it boring. I was much more into Eragon, Pendragon, and James Patterson though I acknowledge now that none of those were inherently better; that said, fans of those series are much less obnoxious through law of very large numbers than HP fans solely because they didn't have successful big budget films.

>>15548656
there must be several hundred dollars invested in that garbage, jesus

>>15548573
>react by dreaming themselves into another world
But that's what japanese / korean mangas are for. Every 6-7 months when I get too burned out from work I take a few days to read chink illustrated novels like Solo Leveling or whatever is popular at the time. After that I go back to work and forget about whatever I read. It's just some mindless escapism that doesn't require me to think so that I can recover mentally.
I can't imagine reading Harry Potter though. And certainly not my whole life like the lefties. It's so shit, at that point you might as well read the chink shit.

>>15548690
Years ago, I had a highschool classmate that would only read Harry Potter. She would finish the books and start again from the first book. What is also strange is that she and her family were pretty religious. I don't know the English equivalent of their sect but think Jehovah's witnesses.
I made fun of her every chance I got haha

They've never been exposed to anything better so they actually think it's good. They don't just think they're enjoying some harmless trash, they think it's quality.

>>15548301
Because fuck you that's why bitch ass nigga.

>>15549992
You like Manga. They like Harry Potter.

Some people like Ice Cream. Some like Cake.

Some people like Puerto Rican BBW Slampigs. Some like stick thin russian white girls with no tits.

The point I'm trying to make is let people enjoy whatever the fuck they want.

>>15550362
Probably bait because of the spacing, but I don't think they are really the same.
They make their whole personality about Harry Potter and consume it almost daily. It wouldn't really be a problem if they read it as form of escapism once or twice a year, espeecially if they would recognize that it's shit. But they don't do that, instead they praise it constantly like it's the holy grail of literature.
If I were to read mangas on the daily I'd be a weeb, instead I only do it when I am so tired that I can't think straight, maybe once a year, so I need something easy on the mind.

>>15548301
I've never actually met an adult who talks about Harry Potter, except when reminiscing on childhood

>>15548301
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU LITERALLY CAN'T!!! SHE'S CANCELLED!!

>>15551354
>espeecially if they would recognize that it's shit. But they don't do that, instead they praise it constantly like it's the holy grail of literature.
Thats cos they haven't read anything better, or much at all since the age that they were when they read hp. They might read it again if theyre bored of netflix - its easy + nostalgia hit. Too comfy to move on/grow up, nor are there any adults telling them they have to. And maybe they dont

>>15548582
>Bollocks
Stopped reading

>>15551409
Pretty much. And again, it's their problem if they can live with that sort of mediocrity. But it gets annoying when all of them start flaunting it. It's not much better than people who are proud that they do not read anything.