Rowling got a lot of credit for helping a lot of kids to read, but it's clear many of them never read another book. Any other book
READ ANOTHER GODDAMNED BOOK.
ANY OTHER FUCKING BOOK ON THE PLANET JFC
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As impossible to name a best author of all time as it is it's Ursula K Le Guin.
Honestly actually an impossible question to answer if you read more than 10 books. But imagine even trying to answer it with JK. Just shows the incredible lack of breadth of their reading. Like even if you like Harry Potter still despite it's general mediocrity (with lots of racism) it's so clear that they aren't like the best of all time if you continued reading other things once you finished them.
was genuinely bewildered by some people i was hanging out with a few weeks ago just completely out of nowhere getting into a harry potter discussion. like these absolutely normal progressive young people just have no scruples whatsoever to just go talk about harry potter in 2025 for like half an hour.
Imagine thinking a book series is the best just because it is popular.
this is intentional propaganda because nobody and i mean NOBODY gives a shit about fantastic beasts
The first one is pretty fun, the second is a baffling inexplicable mess, and the third one is so incredibly libshit while also being incomprehensible to the point where I'm sad they cancelled the franchise because I need to see where they go after "Wizard Hitler No. 1 is defeated by the power of vooooting"
The best stuff was the quirky funny magical creature stuff that the film is named after - unfortunately they doubled down on the E D G Y B O Y plot lines in the sequels. In another universe Fantastic Beasts is a pure kid's movie about a British guy on a magical adventure and it's really good.
Yeah it kinda came and went really fast, almost like the studio was embarrassed by it.
After watching the second one, I've pretty adamantly refused to watch anything else in the series. A shame. They had potential.
without her the wizarding world Harry Potter and fantastic beasts wouldn’t exist
I already hate her you don’t have to convince me
Imagine actually mentioning fantastic beasts in this post
Like, you could have left it out, you didn't have to name something more embarrassing to have authored than Harry potter, as incredible an achievement as it is to write something worse
It's a story about wizards letting the holocaust happen like...
It's a story about wizards letting the holocaust happen in a story whose set up was about cute animals. How do you bungle that so badly? After Harry Potter, low stakes animal adventures should have been an easy, inoffensive cash cow.
The books were an early stop in gaining confidence in reading.
I don't think they're irreplacable in that function. On the contrary, but discovering how awful Rowling is as i've grown up has been really incredibly depressing.
Same. I've got other authors from my childhood who were chuds but at least their books hold up.
I will stand by my love of Ender's Game and its sequels till the day I die.
Speaker for the Dead remains one of my favorites of all time, although I wasn't a huge fan of the Enders Shadow series the late sequels where the sci fi gets weird are great.
I'd agree with some of the sequels. It gets weird when the chinese do gene selection to make themselves tiny and autistic to better live in space
what the hell would my life even be without Hairbeld Plonker and the Chombo of Sucrets!
she is definitely not the best author of all time. she is probably in the bottom 50, if there's any superlatives to be had here.
also, the best author of all time is Chuck Liddell.
Chuck Tingle's monthly novels are genuinely, unironically, better than anything Rowling ever shat onto paper
the best author of all time is Chuck Liddell
The pillow guy, right?
lol, no, it's an early 2000s MMA guy who is mostly famous for beating people up and playing himself in movie cameos. he wrote a book though. pretty sure it's mostly about getting jacked beating people up. I thought it would be a good bit to randomly claim him as my pick for greatest author of all time.
this is Chuck Liddell
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Sorry, I should have made it obvious that I was using the similarities of their last names to make a joke.
But now that you've included a picture, we can keep this going!
Say, isn't that the guy who got Reagan shot?
That's an awful lot of words to say you've never read a book that requires higher than 5th grade reading comprehension.
So insane that anyone ever looked past how overtly hitlerian the harry potter books were even before all the trans stuff
First of all, how dare you
