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You were probably too old for it when it came out. I'm in my 30s, probably right in the cohort that was at the older side of the targeted age as the books were releasing, and felt too old for it pretty quickly.
I'm afraid to say that book slapped when I was a kid, but the hype elevated once the movies started coming out.
Imagining a world where Eragon had a good movie, it'd probably change the trajectory of a lot of things
The movies really got the boost from having a John Williams score. Even his work on super mid movies is incredibly memorable.
The movies aren’t that bad. Critics, academies, and even the general public at the time held them all in high esteem and they are well made.
I didn’t even like the story after Goblet of Fire but calling the movies mid is really underselling them.
We played stuff from the Harry Potter soundtrack in band one year
Same for me friend, I was really into it as a kid because I was blissfully unaware of everything it really meant. I was fed the slop and I liked it
I was into the first 5, but had super checked out/aged out of them after that. I was like 14 when the 5th one came out. By 6 and 7 I was old enough to realise “oh these actually kinda suck”. Not in a political sense, I just thought the actual books themselves were mid a.f. once I reached my later teens
I was 10 when the last one was released, it really hits different when you still play with sticks
The first ones came out when I was in middle school. I remember hearing about them a lot. I had some friends that read them. They are still huge Harry Potter dorks.
I think he's like 10 or so in the first book. Since kid's media tends to really work for kids slightly younger than the protagonists, I feel like someone would have had to have been in their later elementary school years (~3rd-5th grade in burgerland) for it to really take hold.
Middle school is kinda pushing it lol.
I know several people who are my age or older who have basically only read Harry Potter.
I've posted this before, but it still horrifies me. I know a couple who quit Harry Potter when Rowling publicly went full TERF. Now they exclusively read . . . Harry Potter fan-fiction.
I literally talked to this friend a few months ago about reading and he just said he was thinking of reading Harry Potter again.
I feel like shonen manga or superhero comics or just not reading anything would all be a step up from that
Nah, I'm sorry, but age is not a factor here. For people into fantasy, the opening 45 minutes of the first movie are fucking amazing. Doesn't matter how old you are, it takes a person right back to their childhood.
Fantasy lovers never lose that dream, to be magical and/or live in a magical place.