I'm about half-way through the Philosopher's Stone right now and I like how Rowling is consistently imaginative and keeps everything moving forward at a fast pace. I'm not in love with the book by any means but it's highly consumable. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue onto the next book in the series, but likely not.
What is your opinion on the Harry Potter series?
Asher Morris
Looks like she needs to stretch her legs.
Hudson Martin
It’s gay Reddit shit. Seriously.
Jason Garcia
"No!"
David Davis
Those feet... *sweats profusely* oh, oh, oh, Bloom, my dear, forgive me...
Jace Hughes
I really want her to walk barefeet on my cock and face
Nathaniel White
Post more pics, for research purposes of course
Josiah Nelson
x D
Camden Brooks
I have to say, I've come to see some of its virtues. I teach it to ESL kids and I was not excited to do so. It's not nearly as good as Hunger Games, but it's not without it's merits. The pace is zippy without leaving one feeling shorted; the details are well laid (e.g. Hagrid mentioning Ron's brother Charlie as a dragon trainer to get out of talking about Snape); the characters are a little flat, but sort of like Dickens characters.
The real surprise I got was how sparse the descriptions are. The Sorting Hat is really only a page or so, the school is described in almost no detail whatsoever, etc. The movie is really a much more magical picture. But maybe it's precisely the lack of details that made the book feel so personal for people. 1000 readers, 1000 different Hogwarts.
Obviously not high fucking art, but it's a children's story for fuck's sake. As far as that goes, one could do worse.
Nathan Butler
They're fun, but not much beyond that. I wish the protag did more wizard stuff, you barely see him cast anything or do wizard things. Also I wish he had an actually competent duel with the antag at the end, not that one spell cowboy quickdraw shit.
Robert Harris
>how sparse the descriptions are. The Sorting Hat is really only a page or so, the school is described in almost no detail whatsoever, etc keep in mind that the uk is littered with castles and british kids are routinely dragged around them by their parents on holidays, at weekends etc. every british kid instinctively knows what hogwarts looks like. it's not necesary to give a complete description any more than it is necessary to describe e.g. the inside of a macdonalds to an american kid
Aaron Jones
Why has she been photoshopped into a latina
Jayden Smith
Many years ago I read part of some Harry Potter book. I found the prose to be very clumsy and cumbersome. Granted it is for children/young adults, but I couldn't fathom why adults were so captivated.
One particular line stands out in my memory, the only one really: "Harry unstuck his face from the window". Or something like that. It was awful.
Dominic Moore
>"Harry unstuck his face from the window" there's nothing really wrong with that though. it's literally what kids do when they push their faces against a glass and it sticks there like a sucker dart and then they take them away. perfectly ok line for a book aimed at teenagers.
the many pictures of her lying around in a bikini in expensive sunny holiday destinations may offer something of a clue
Alexander Long
>It's not nearly as good as Hunger Games
Hunger Games is a good story but the actual novels are trash and horribly written. The movies are immensely better.
Jason Taylor
that one's been touched up really badly too
Brody Mitchell
Good point. Hadn't occurred to me. Question: HP bigger deal in UK than in the U.S.? Seems like actual exposure to castles would make Harry Potter less interesting. No one who grew up in "Arabia" is much interested in the 1000 nights.
Time was I'd have agreed, but I've since changed my opinion. Hunger Games isn't great by any stretch, but first person narration allows for a more interesting ambiguity. The movies are forced to show the game makers. In the novel, Katniss speculates on their decisions, and it's not always clear she's right.
That said, I only ever read the first one. I just found it much more interesting to teach than Harry Potter and much easier to discuss (remember - ESL students) than the movie.
Hardest books to teach are Roald Dahl. Charlie and James are both superb children's books, but better primarily aesthetically. Kids dig all the alliteration, but it's hard to really discuss. Less obvious rhetorical devices are hard even to point out.
Josiah Long
I know J.K. Rowling never specified her skin color, but did she ever describe Hermione's ass?
Dominic Fisher
>HP bigger deal in UK than in the U.S.? Seems like actual exposure to castles would make Harry Potter less interesting. another part of HP's appeal to the UK audience is that it fits right in with the "boarding school story" tradition. i am not sure if this is a popular thing outside the uk. it goes right back to the 19th century and each generation has their own e.g tom brown's schooldays, several enid blyton books etc. i remember seeing one review that called HP "billy bunter of the rings" or something similar basically HP was successful because it ticked so many genre boxes, including for adults who grew up with the famous five and so on
like a lot of girls, emma gets a lift from wearing high heels. they accentuate the shape of the legs and butt
Ryan Anderson
forgot pic
Benjamin Gray
I really don't understand how people can sexualize Emma Watson. She has a libido of a nun, or your caring auntie. She is a total, complete do-gooder. Even if she was caught naked, her face won't have even a tiniest twist of flirtation. Look how NORMAL she is in the Wallflower movie, for example.
Jayden Kelly
In Britain, that's considered a bubble butt.
Kevin Turner
In addition to the fact that she just isn't attractive, even by Hollywood bimbo standards, as the photos in this thread adduce
Camden Morris
I think I'll give it a pass, or a miss, whatever.
John Davis
gb2Lesbos. Men don't fap to “attractiveness”.
Sebastian Johnson
were these for Harvey?
Oliver Flores
>highly consumable
Now you're just quoting Keats on Chapman's Odyssey
Parker Peterson
>sort of like Dickens
This has to be some witty litizen LARPing on reddit
Robert Wood
for a lot of guys between about 20-25 she was the first girl they ever noticed, similar to men who gret up in the 70's with princess leia
Christopher Miller
I've literally masturbated to the thought of living in a country house and waking up to her making me a nice English breakfast with pressed coffee and wearing nothing but heels and a cooking apron with her hair pulled up.
Don't tell me what my fantasies are, faggot.
Luke Gomez
are you fucking retarded? are you akshually fucking retarded? i wanna punch you in the throat
John Robinson
It is obvious that your “fantasies” are products of a pathetic imagination fueled by stereotypical circumstances, and that anyone could be in that apron. Go buy Who Cleans the Housemaids? Vol. 8 porn DVD.
Dominic Carter
She looks kind of like a boy though.
Easton Evans
No, that's a nice teenage figure, and jailbait has never felt out of fashion. If you focus on her butt alone, it's totally '''me gusta'''. Porn is in the face, and hers has none.
Jaxon Brooks
Literally do not give a flying fuck if you think my fantasies are stereotypical. Not a single fuck. In fact, I've just unbuttoned my pants and I'm going to think about her sucking me off while I read your pathetic excuse for a thread.
Ryder Parker
She looks porn when she's angry.
Blake Rivera
Describe how her breasts look like after the boob job to which she agreed only for you. Doctor said she chose the biggest implants her body allowed.
Joseph Lewis
didnt rowling do character and setting descriptions well?
Brody King
Not interested
Asher Smith
i dont get the appeal either
Wyatt Miller
jesus you guys might be psychotic, how do you get this angry about nothing
Christopher Campbell
Gotta say she has some fantastic feet
Jacob Brown
Would have really enjoyed them when i was younger but i was busy watching porn all day
Joseph Ramirez
There's nothing wrong with Harty Potter if you're a kid; it's a fairly imaginative story and it has some interesting characters. The issue is when grown adults read it and nothing else, then use it as their sole point of reference when discussing "books" and relate it back to real life in retarded ways.
Jeremiah Russell
this guy gets it
Cameron Butler
Emma Watson is the most perfect girl ever. Prove me wrong.
William Jones
I grew up with it and loved it, but the first four books are the most coherent. It functioned best as a narrative contained within Hogwarts and each book after Goblet of Fire just diminishes the initial coziness of the setting until it's gone.
Bear in mind, that's what my assessment is based on looking back on my impressions. I was 18 when I finished it, a decade ago and I'm kinda hesitant to pick it back up for fear I'll break the nostalgia glasses I have for it.