Books Thread

On topic though, I never actually liked Harry Potter (making it required reading in elementary school will do that to a kid) and half of the books in that display are already on my to-read list. I hope Harry Potter getting cancelled means fresh blood will be picking up other fantasy books.

 

I'm completely indifferent to people trying to cancel Harry Potter. I personally never cared for the series, there are other books equally or more engaging that young readers can pick up, and the series itself isn't actually going anywhere. JK Rowling didn't really do anything new or groundbreaking with Harry Potter, she just had some really lucky timing publishing when all of her competition were little scholastic pulp serials.

I don't think the Harry Potter series itself is doing any damage either, although a lot of people who get into reading starting with Harry Potter do unfortunately tend to stay there. I rarely see them move on to other series and it's sad.

 

I've never liked harry potter. The worldbuilding makes 0 sense, the characters are equal parts annoying and boring, the villain is lame and it felt way to self inserty for me to ever get into it. I always prefered Terry Prattchett

Earthsea?

 

Nah that's still on my to read list. I picked it up but it's like, third in line right now.

 

It's alright, i preferred it as a kid then when i re-read it a year ago. Still very readable though and broke a lot of the past cliche's for fantasy

 

I just read Skyward which is weird for me since I normally don't care for YA or Sci-fi. But it was written by Brandon Sanderson so it was good anyways.

 

I've always considered Skyward a solid 5/10. It's ok but it's not really great either. I think Spensa has a good character arc but besides her nobody else really feels like a real character besides maybe Cobb.
I'd trade that whole series for the last W&W book.

 

IDK, a lot of YA novels I've read or at least tried to read are incredibly shitty. This one definitely feels a lot less substantial than his other novels but it also feels intentional, like this was supposed to be a light and easy read.

This reminds me, I have Throne of Glass sitting on my shelf and I've heard it gets better but the main character was an obnoxious shit in the first chapter.

 

Throne of glass is alright but it hasn't aged all that well. It's a bit like Truthwitch where you either can or can't enjoy it and you find out very early

 

I thought Bruce Coville wrote kid's novels, not YA? I read his Unicorn Chronicles series when I was a kid.

 

I have heard good things about the book. But i refuse to read it because it was written by Danial Defoe.
What else did you like about the book despite the religious aspects?