I downloaded all the Harry Potter books, is it worth it? Let me show you my library here.

[Lod 10]

 

[qw90700]

If you watched the movies but you are not a die-hard fan: Nope it's not worth reading them especially because unlike the movies the book has tons of trivial characters and events that make things boring. Especially reading the series past the 2nd book was too boring due to its unnecessary length, so especially Goblet of Fire is boring AF. The writer wrote like she just loves to wrestle with words to make things sound too fancy and make more money by writing more words. And then Order of the Phoenix is boring AF too until around the end. If you don't care about Harry Potter universe that much the only book in the series okay to read is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

If you never watched the movies, the movies suck AF so better read its books instead though. The movies doesn't worth at all while all the point of the Harry Potter story is in the book.

If you loved the movies and want more the movies are like a significantly reduced version of the books. There are more significant characters and events to learn in the books, while the movies only focus on what characters and events matter for the entirety of the storyline, but sometimes shit changed in a bad way just for stupid movie logic to cause unnecessary drama and "positive moments" by following generic shit they follow to produce movies. For example the movies lacks a very important fun character da Peeves the Poltergeist and it is like ignoring the existence of Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings movie just to reduce the costs of SFX lol. These characters are not unnecessary in their respective universes so their absence in the movies are a dick move. Actually whole existence of Peeves the Poltergeist is fundamental for the main big deal story point in Order of the Phoenix that the story too changed in the movie adaptation and makes shit doesn't really make sense. I wish Hermione hadn't existed instead lol. Oh, in the books Hermione is not part of the Harry-Ron gang, but in the movies from the start it seems like she is die hard friend or something. In the book Hermione's existence is like the writer's mind leaking to her pencil because she was like "boys are stupid so this story needs a Mary Sue character to make these stupid boys do something right" by from time to time Hermione shows up and saves the day while Harry and Ron are annoyed by her presence. IDK why movie versions removed this relationship dynamic. And then the book Hermione is not that "good" compared to the movie version, she doesn't even fix Harry's glasses or something. While book Hermione is Mary Sue the movie version is woke lol. I'm actually surprised in the movie Hermione cannot defeat Voldemort as soon as she sets foot in the school lolol. In the end either in the books or the movies existence of Hermione makes the whole story stupid by making the story rely so much on "deus ex machine card".

Those who liked the movies, however, may feel weird reading the books because how things happen differently and how characters are different too. Mostly so many characters from books merged into one character in the movie so as what multiple characters separately did in the books done by one and only character in the movie adaptation, sometimes roles are even switched. It may make movie enjoyers actually dislike the movies. And then the movies have events that never happened in the book so people may like the movie for extra events that happened so they would dislike the books that these events never happened compared the books.

As a result the book version is significantly different "the true" version while the movie versions are too different and a "distorted parallel universe" version. In the end despite the book version is boring the whole story makes more sense in the book series compared to the movie version. Otherwise they both suffer from same reasons in terms of unrealistic male characters and the whole key story points. It's just book versions suck less and have better good things to enjoy while the movie adaptation is just visuals and boring aspects of the story that story progression happens wrongly and therefore doesn't make sense from time to time. Clearly they only cared to make the movie versions enjoyable by people who already read the books and the people who don't care about the Harry Potter story, they just wanna watch a movie that is done in a "watchable" way.

In the end "worth" is subjective, but in general Harry Potter books doesn't add anything to you and it is not a significant book I would recommend to anyone. Better read Neuromancer by William Gibson instead!!! lolol

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

What app did you use is free download?

YEs I mean There so many cut on the movie snd also creatures and some good magic for me every movie adoption should read also source material.

 

[Lod 10]

Qual aplicativo você usou que seja gratuito para baixar?

Sim, quero dizer, há muitos cortes no filme, além de criaturas e uma boa dose de magia. Para mim, toda adaptação cinematográfica deveria levar em consideração também o material original.

OThe app I use is Moon. reader It's free, but you have to download the books separately and add the PDFs of your favorite books, download the covers with your favorite covers, and you'll see what I'm at level 5. Sorry for not responding.

 

[PacGuy]

 

[Luz de Luna Luz de Luna Luz de Luna's icon]

They are worth it as a one-time read, but going back to them later on is almost impossible even if you loved them the first time around (hey, that was my case!). They are just too curveball-dependant to survive a second read, even if you have forgotten most details about them by the time you decide to hope right back on.

Enjoy them while you can, is what I'm saying.

 

[Lod 10]

Vale a pena lê-los uma vez, mas voltar a eles mais tarde é quase impossível, mesmo que você os tenha adorado na primeira vez (ei, esse foi o meu caso!). Eles dependem demais de reviravoltas inesperadas para sobreviverem a uma segunda leitura, mesmo que você já tenha esquecido a maioria dos detalhes quando decidir tentar relê-los.

Aproveite enquanto pode, é o que estou dizendo.

Thank you, I'm reading.

 

[reila]

Very cool! I was pretty into HP as a kid (outgrew it though). I would also recommend another series literally no one knows about: The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas. I forgot the name for a long time, but it was a really good series. Super underrated.

 

[qw90700]

They are worth it as a one-time read, but going back to them later on is almost impossible even if you loved them the first time around (hey, that was my case!). They are just too curveball-dependant to survive a second read, even if you have forgotten most details about them by the time you decide to hope right back on.

Enjoy them while you can, is what I'm saying.

The only replay-worthy Harry Potter content is its video games IMO. I like the first 2 games' PS1 video games way better than the books and movies and I play them from time to time lol:

I dislike the 3rd book and its movie, yet its GBA game is solid AF way more than Solid Snake™©℗® lolol:

In the Order of the Phoenix game you can free roam around the school and cast spells on students, even make them stay upside down in the air lolol:

And Half-Blood Prince's game have a meme section to play as Ron in love, even the way he walks and he sees stuff changes lol:

And then after all these amazing games they released the rubbish Hogwarts Legacy shit SMH. You can't even cast any spell at random people!!! Fuck this shit!!!! lol

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I haven't read much of the Harry Potter books but I've seen all of the movies at least once each.

 

[Sweetmint]

If you watched the movies but you are not a die-hard fan: Nope it's not worth reading them especially because unlike the movies the book has tons of trivial characters and events that make things boring. Especially reading the series past the 2nd book was too boring due to its unnecessary length, so especially Goblet of Fire is boring AF. The writer wrote like she just loves to wrestle with words to make things sound too fancy and make more money by writing more words. And then Order of the Phoenix is boring AF too until around the end. If you don't care about Harry Potter universe that much the only book in the series okay to read is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

If you never watched the movies, the movies suck AF so better read its books instead though. The movies doesn't worth at all while all the point of the Harry Potter story is in the book.

If you loved the movies and want more the movies are like a significantly reduced version of the books. There are more significant characters and events to learn in the books, while the movies only focus on what characters and events matter for the entirety of the storyline, but sometimes shit changed in a bad way just for stupid movie logic to cause unnecessary drama and "positive moments" by following generic shit they follow to produce movies. For example the movies lacks a very important fun character da Peeves the Poltergeist and it is like ignoring the existence of Tom Bombadil in Lord of the Rings movie just to reduce the costs of SFX lol. These characters are not unnecessary in their respective universes so their absence in the movies are a dick move. Actually whole existence of Peeves the Poltergeist is fundamental for the main big deal story point in Order of the Phoenix that the story too changed in the movie adaptation and makes shit doesn't really make sense. I wish Hermione hadn't existed instead lol. Oh, in the books Hermione is not part of the Harry-Ron gang, but in the movies from the start it seems like she is die hard friend or something. In the book Hermione's existence is like the writer's mind leaking to her pencil because she was like "boys are stupid so this story needs a Mary Sue character to make these stupid boys do something right" by from time to time Hermione shows up and saves the day while Harry and Ron are annoyed by her presence. IDK why movie versions removed this relationship dynamic. And then the book Hermione is not that "good" compared to the movie version, she doesn't even fix Harry's glasses or something. While book Hermione is Mary Sue the movie version is woke lol. I'm actually surprised in the movie Hermione cannot defeat Voldemort as soon as she sets foot in the school lolol. In the end either in the books or the movies existence of Hermione makes the whole story stupid by making the story rely so much on "deus ex machine card".

Those who liked the movies, however, may feel weird reading the books because how things happen differently and how characters are different too. Mostly so many characters from books merged into one character in the movie so as what multiple characters separately did in the books done by one and only character in the movie adaptation, sometimes roles are even switched. It may make movie enjoyers actually dislike the movies. And then the movies have events that never happened in the book so people may like the movie for extra events that happened so they would dislike the books that these events never happened compared the books.

As a result the book version is significantly different "the true" version while the movie versions are too different and a "distorted parallel universe" version. In the end despite the book version is boring the whole story makes more sense in the book series compared to the movie version. Otherwise they both suffer from same reasons in terms of unrealistic male characters and the whole key story points. It's just book versions suck less and have better good things to enjoy while the movie adaptation is just visuals and boring aspects of the story that story progression happens wrongly and therefore doesn't make sense from time to time. Clearly they only cared to make the movie versions enjoyable by people who already read the books and the people who don't care about the Harry Potter story, they just wanna watch a movie that is done in a "watchable" way.

In the end "worth" is subjective, but in general Harry Potter books doesn't add anything to you and it is not a significant book I would recommend to anyone. Better read Neuromancer by William Gibson instead!!! lolol

speaking
of the movies why are they so long?

 

[BjornSmallpeen]

They're actually very easy to read because the target audience was school kids. So even if you're not in love with it, it just goes by quickly imo. Literally one of the most effortless fantasy series to read of all time. I read them years ago just out of boredom and why not because they were there.