Man I was the same age as Harry when the first book came out, I completely grew up with those books and films and I had and still have a lot to say about them.
That said, by book 6 and 7 I can honestly say that I was aware of better literature and was just sticking it out to see how the series ended. Whatever else you can say about her one thing that is absolutely true about JK Rowling is that she needed a better editor from book 5 onwards, the back half of the series dragged.
The main other stuff I was reading at this time was the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was doing the Yuuzhan Vong war, which also really dragged on for a few books longer than it needed to, and Warhammer 40k stuff, which I stuck with for a while but dropped off once they started pushing the Horus Heresy stuff. Since then I've basically hated every change they've made to the setting, PrImArIs MaRiNeS can suck on my chode.
I got out of Star Wars EU before the yuzhan vong but read so many of those books beforehand. It’s still kind of ridiculous to me that Disney didn’t just make those books into movies. Luke as a teacher training the next generation of Jedi on Yavin 4 or falling for the witches of Dathomir or battling Admiral Thrawn was great! But probably not as good as I remember.
They're a lot better than what Disney has come up with in the meantime. I tried to get back into Star Wars books with the Leia book and Lost Stars and I decided I wasn't going to read a third, they were just terrible. When libs try to write politics the only thing they can come up with is "the unwashed masses decide to do fascism because they couldn't be patient and let the smart technocrats fix everything", essentially just writing a worse version of the prequels.
I feel gaslit because it's like everything actually is terrible in a lot of big ways, but the only thing people are complaining about is LGBT/PoC characters.
Man I was the same age as Harry when the first book came out, I completely grew up with those books and films and I had and still have a lot to say about them.
That said, by book 6 and 7 I can honestly say that I was aware of better literature and was just sticking it out to see how the series ended. Whatever else you can say about her one thing that is absolutely true about JK Rowling is that she needed a better editor from book 5 onwards, the back half of the series dragged.
The main other stuff I was reading at this time was the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was doing the Yuuzhan Vong war, which also really dragged on for a few books longer than it needed to, and Warhammer 40k stuff, which I stuck with for a while but dropped off once they started pushing the Horus Heresy stuff. Since then I've basically hated every change they've made to the setting, PrImArIs MaRiNeS can suck on my chode.
Ugh. The Yuuzhan Vong bullshit killed my interest in Star Wars books.
I got out of Star Wars EU before the yuzhan vong but read so many of those books beforehand. It’s still kind of ridiculous to me that Disney didn’t just make those books into movies. Luke as a teacher training the next generation of Jedi on Yavin 4 or falling for the witches of Dathomir or battling Admiral Thrawn was great! But probably not as good as I remember.
They're a lot better than what Disney has come up with in the meantime. I tried to get back into Star Wars books with the Leia book and Lost Stars and I decided I wasn't going to read a third, they were just terrible. When libs try to write politics the only thing they can come up with is "the unwashed masses decide to do fascism because they couldn't be patient and let the smart technocrats fix everything", essentially just writing a worse version of the prequels.
I feel gaslit because it's like everything actually is terrible in a lot of big ways, but the only thing people are complaining about is LGBT/PoC characters.