Pictured: Millennials talking about the silly wizard power fantasy like it's Shakespeare. Harry Potter truly is to Generation Y as Star Wars was to Generation X. It reminds them of a "better time" when they could remain ignorant of all the horrible things happening in the world (paid for by their tax money).

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i was almost 20 when the hairy porber books were blowin' up. i had already started reading the game of thrones series, so i was never in the demographic. but i had friends that worked at a nearby bookstore and the release dates were a whole retail phenomenon. the general vibe was, "it's great these kids are reading."

seems like a monkey paw thing though where, for a lot of them, they were the only books they would read for the next 30 years lol.

also, it's still weird to me that it's being rebooted already. it would be like rebooting the game of thrones / a song of ice and fire series right now, again, but as a bunch of movies. which maybe they will, but it would be weird. at least GRRM fiddled around with other story lines that can be adapted. all the HP prequel stuff seems to have fallen flat. probably because JK Boring is a complete hack, while GRRM is an actual pulp writer.

anyway, whatever, i'm still waiting for the Kingkiller trilogy to finish and be adapted. or just to finish. hopefully before i die.

“Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.”