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I keep seeing people talk about her "exceptional talent" (it's a shame she sucks because she's so talented!!!) and I'm just like... You have literally never read any other literature, have you? I get the appeal of HP and that you love it but the writing is, just, fine. At best, it's... Fine. It's written for kids and it reads that way. She composes competent prose and came up with a passably engaging but not particularly novel story. It's more fun to read than say an article in an academic journal but most things are.
I am once again begging liberals to read another book.
Also it's a series of novels that make no sense if you look hard at it (e.g. time turners) and condone slavery, fat-shame a child, have names for minorities that are Hitlerian in their level of racism, and on and on . . .
Oh, absolutely. I have a mile high stack of problems with the books but I think I only ever read the first one (I'm about 5 or 6 years too old for it) and I just saw someone talking about her "talent" recently
That's an interesting point. I've recently been reading "the dispossessed" (nearly done!) and it's a reminder that damn, le Guin really was a great writer.