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[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 week ago

Or just read other books, watch other movies, and so on. Like, Harry Potter is genuinely not even that good

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

What?? The only books that exist are:

  • Harry Potter
  • 1984
  • AO3 fanfics
[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy ^*^

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

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Six if you count Mostly Harmless.

I think you mean six if you count 'And Another Thing .. '

'Mostly Harmless' was the 5th book.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  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.

[-] natedog526@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'd recommend Dresden Files series if you want something with a wizard in it.

[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ooh... +1 for this...

Read them some time back and would definitely read again.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’ll add it to my reading list. Thanks!

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There’s also atlas shrugged.

It’s like the sorting hat for terrible people.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Oh good one but that's a trick question, because nobody has actually read it in full.

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Wait! You aren't supposed to finish Atlas Shrugged?

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 week ago

The really good a/o I've been following hasn't been updated in almost two months 😭

[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah it’s wild looking at the books with adult eyes at the house elves and goblins and so on.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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...

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

gently pushes Katalepsis by Hazel Young your way

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I had someone recommend Rivers of London as an alternative magic learning protag series, and I’m enjoying it, but it’s more noir detective than Harry Potter. Which works in its favor IMO.

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