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Spellbound and Underwhelmed
Harry Potter everything. The books are awful, the films are unwatchable.
JKR flat-out stole the story from Ursula Le Guin, dumbed it down, removed any intelligent subtext, $$$profit.
“The story is set in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea and centers around a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont. He displays great power while still a boy and joins the school of wizardry, where his prickly nature drives him into conflict with one of his fellows. During a magical duel, Ged’s spell goes awry and releases a shadow creature that attacks him. The novel follows his journey as he seeks to be free of the creature.”
Quote from Le Guin “She could have at least said thanks”
One is literature written by an anthropologist with themes, subtext, and ideas – what is in a name? how do we come to terms with dying? The Earthsea cycle is also beautifully written prose.
Harry Potter is like the McDonald’s of books and hard to read, ugly, pulling the same cheap trick over and over. Quirky detailed explanations of nonsense characters or monsters. Childish and weak character names.
The films – Do you like the awful child acting, terrible plot, the mass market approach, or the fact that they made the same film five or six times over?
