not_IO19h ago

had this convo just yesterday 🤦‍♀️

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41078091

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Show threadJack17h ago
They are not even good, why is everyone crazy about these books?
Show thread12315h ago
They are easy to read and were some peoples introduction to fantasy/fiction (not everything is as dull as school assignments) and a set of shared experiences growing up.
Show threadbufalo1973
Even when the books were written I found even the concept pretty stupid. “You need a wand to do magic” 🤷‍♂️ “We can teleport but you have to use a train to get to school” 🤦‍♂️ And the story is a ripoff of too many previous stories.
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Show threadi_love_FFT13h ago
World building was shit. New stuff was being added in later books that, if it existed in early books, would have made the story so different.
Show threadTonava8h ago
The consistency isn’t really the selling point, yeah. What made the books any good was the kind of whimsy of being suddenly thrown into a weird magical word that didn’t follow any understandable logic and was full of cool stuff and mysteries. That’s a great hook for kids! The first three books do that pretty well. After that…