I read the books this year because I wanted to feel pain, basically, and I wanted to be justified in disliking Harry Potter. I was not disappointed. However, I still don't understand how the fuck the end of the book worked. It was so harebrained and convoluted and sloppy as fuck that I don't know what actually happened. Am I stupid or was it a bad ending? And what the fuck happened? How did they actually kill Voldemort?

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    A better series, if it really wanted to end this way, would have spent a lot of time in the series setting up these McGuffins and the ambiguity of the language regarding ownership of the McGuffin.

    Basically, go read Wheel of Time instead. Got it.

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Or Discworld, it rocks the shit out of a lot of shit I've read

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Pratchett is legitimately one of the best authors of the modern era IMO. The sheer amount of fucking layers, both in the plots, characterizations, and puns that he managed to weave together into a coherent whole is just ridiculous.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Jordan wrote most of the prophecies the series is built around in the first 3-4 books. There were plot twists that happened after he died that he had come up with twenty years earlier. I'm not sure there's a better architect when it comes to world building in the genre, possibly except Brandon Sanderson.