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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? I think it clocks in at like half the length of the entire original series.
Yeah that's the one - thanks!
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Yeah that's the one - thanks!
There's a pretty decent audiobook in YouTube if you're into that
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"I fear not the wizard who has practiced 10,000 spells once, but I fear the wizard who has practiced one spell 10,000 times."
Actually Harry also used Expecto Patronum alot (aka, the deus ex machina spell that can do anything and give you a blowjob at the same time)
So he had 2 go to spells.
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There was two times, he used proper curses:
In book 5 he tries to use Crucio to torture Beatrix Lestrange, but she shows him and tortures him instead, as a little boy doesnt know how to torture.
In book 6 he used Sectumsempra on Malfoy without knowing what it is and seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that most spells are just latin word. Subsequently Malfoy almost dies of bloodloss, everyone is chocked how Harry is using dark arts all of a sudden, but Dumbledore bails him out as always.Doesn't that spell even break the rules of the setting? What I'm meaning is that with basically all other spells, just saying the words isn't enough, there's a mental element to it, which is related to what the spell is supposed to do. So, casting a spell without knowing what it does should be impossible.
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Kid's parents get murdered by hitler and he ends up with his north korean foster parents
This guy completely misses all the characterization
Completely misses on maliciously skips the entire 0lot revolving around sirius black
Completely misses that the point is that its your choices that define you, not the circumstances of your birth
My general complaint is that there really isn't any nuance to any of the characters in the books. If you're thinking of complexity, you're probably thinking about the performances created by various excellent actors in the movies.
Also, none of the twists are executed well, as they are either deus ex rectum or they are telegraphed to the point where you don't even realize they were supposed to be twists.
There's no internal consistency within or between books. Macguffins come and go to serve the story, and every story is just repackaged public domain mythology.
Actually, the fan theory that all of it is the delusion of a mistreated orphan boy does tie several things together. The entire arc reads like the fantasies of a sad, lonely kid playing with a stick in his room by himself.
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"I fear not the wizard who has practiced 10,000 spells once, but I fear the wizard who has practiced one spell 10,000 times."
Actually Harry also used Expecto Patronum alot (aka, the deus ex machina spell that can do anything and give you a blowjob at the same time)
So he had 2 go to spells.
Expecto* Patronum
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Does this imply the ultra rare holographic clussy?
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Expecto* Patronum
Fixed. Thanks
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? I think it clocks in at like half the length of the entire original series.
Oh great the foundational work of the rationalist community. Enjoy 650 000 words of Eliezer Yudkowsky' preaching and his self-insert smartly destroying straw-man after straw-man while everybody claps.
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Oh great the foundational work of the rationalist community. Enjoy 650 000 words of Eliezer Yudkowsky' preaching and his self-insert smartly destroying straw-man after straw-man while everybody claps.
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Oh great the foundational work of the rationalist community. Enjoy 650 000 words of Eliezer Yudkowsky' preaching and his self-insert smartly destroying straw-man after straw-man while everybody claps.
Eh, did you finish it? That's certainly how it starts, but that's not really where it winds up.
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I always like to include the addendum that she's also a bad writer. It's great when people are excited to read, but success is not an indicator of quality.
She's not a bad writer. She's slightly above average.
Before she was outed, her pseudonym Robert Galbraith had sold 8500 English language copies across all formats (hardback, eBook, library and audiobook) and received two offers from television production companies.
For a "first time" author those are reasonable numbers.
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Oh great the foundational work of the rationalist community. Enjoy 650 000 words of Eliezer Yudkowsky' preaching and his self-insert smartly destroying straw-man after straw-man while everybody claps.
Ironic, you're describing a strawman version of it. The writing in the beginning might have sine resemblance to it, but if becomes something very different.
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Eh, did you finish it? That's certainly how it starts, but that's not really where it winds up.
I am sure it gets really good after 400 000 words more. However, I would much rather spend my time reading something other than the writings of a guy who doesn't hold a degree of any sort, didn't even finish high-school, but claims to be an expert in all the topics he ignorantly speculates about.
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I always like to include the addendum that she's also a bad writer. It's great when people are excited to read, but success is not an indicator of quality.
eh, they're not great, but not the worst thing ever. ive seen worse debut novels (id argue that the divergent series is worse, though i enjoy it far too much lmao). the series is definitely ruined because of rowling's awfulness.
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I am sure it gets really good after 400 000 words more. However, I would much rather spend my time reading something other than the writings of a guy who doesn't hold a degree of any sort, didn't even finish high-school, but claims to be an expert in all the topics he ignorantly speculates about.
At least he's tried to make critical thinking techniques more well known and accessible. That's more interesting to me than, I dunno, some linguistics PhD's fantasy slop.
It was an enjoyable read, and your strawman characterization isn't really accurate at all, except when lampooning one of Rowling's poorly written characters. Most of the book was Harry facing the consequences of smugly oversimplifying conflicts.
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No he found the spell that was cracked and just spammed it. Why wouldn't you it's the best spell. Insta stunlock, no counter. He did the meta build
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I always like to include the addendum that she's also a bad writer. It's great when people are excited to read, but success is not an indicator of quality.
"Harry Potter isn't as good as you thought when you read it in grade school. Hottest take"
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eh, they're not great, but not the worst thing ever. ive seen worse debut novels (id argue that the divergent series is worse, though i enjoy it far too much lmao). the series is definitely ruined because of rowling's awfulness.
I never read Divergent, but I'm sure there are worse books. And I enjoy plenty of books that aren't well written. I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series, the same way I enjoy a fast food burger and milkshake. It always bugged me that everyone kept praising Rowling for what an amazing writer she was, but I never cared to criticize her because kids were reading and she seemed to be a genuinely decent person.
Now we know she's a hateful bigot, and her shitty writing is providing the funding for her to attempt to oppress people and generally be horrible. So no reason to keep pretending she's not a hack writer.
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No he found the spell that was cracked and just spammed it. Why wouldn't you it's the best spell. Insta stunlock, no counter. He did the meta build
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