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

[Lod 10]

 

[Deleted member 660650]

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 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.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

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.

 

[bogartt]

Formative when I was a kid. Ruined by the outspoken lunacy of its author. Imagine, what if she just shut the fuck up.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

speaking
of the movies why are they so long?

Because despite they ripping out most of the books the actual key story points take that long even when they tried to use shortcuts lol.

In the end Harry Potter books are more fitting for a tv series and video games, not for movies because if it was a movie each movie would be like around around 5 hours long.

Because movies would take too long to produce it risked the kids playing the characters that has the high screentime in the movies cannot attend school properly until the whole shooting of entire series is done. And according to law a kid cannot work in such an industry for too long. Not to mention working with kids are hard and it calls for many redoes of scenes. Yet kept the length of the movies properly when the current industry would make the movies one hour shorter and wouldn't bother with making the last book having 2 parts movie.

One may ask "but uhhh tv series are longer than movies" but despite length production can use better shortcuts for TV series production that actually speed up the shit.

When you shoot a movie you actually shoot many scenes and you edit and merge shit to decide on how the flow of the movie should be, and it takes a very long time. Not to mention one director and key crew works at a time. TV series has less limitation, multiple directors and multiple crew teams works and simultaneously they are in charge of particular scenes and episodes that actually makes production faster to make it fit to realistic way to produce a TV series. While 1 episode is done they edit it while they shoot 2nd episode. When 2nd episode is ready to air they shoot 3rd episode and common scenes in many episodes and so on. But in movies shit gotta be done in particular order that increases production time. As a result while same script may take 2 years production to prepare it for watchable state, TV series way of shooting the script can take few months.

As a result it was stupid shit to release its movies when TV series episodes like 1 hour each would be a realistic choice, but thus greedy Americanos couldn't make more money just because they suck at business. To ensure it they invented Netflix and whatnot shit like HBO's Max. Instead of simple primitive selling movie tickets idea they could make more profit by advertizing on the channel, selling the TV series to various channels around the world and selling its disc version so people can watch it on their player. As a result the movies really sucked hard but it wasn't a failure in terms of profit, but TV series would really make way more profit. But now they making its TV series when its popularity died and then they playing their cards very wrong. They will make profit but not much. Probably its 2nd season will be cancelled due to heavy backlash. It can even start wars!!! lolol

 

[Mr. SyS]

Don't let the crazies try to scare you off. What JK says in interviews doesn't and shouldn't matter. Harry Potter was my favorite growing up and one of the reasons why I was such a voracious reader back hen. I never really got into the movies or TV series and everything after The cursed Child? Nah... The first 7 though were very important to me personally and hold a special place in my heart.

>This one kid read the latest Harry Potter in two days
>Ima beat that

 

[Graw]

I liked the books when I read them as a kid. The movies didn't exist when I started reading them so I read them, at least the first few books, before watching any of the movies. I preferred them to the movies. The first couple movies were pretty close to the books, but each movie after that changed more and more stuff, to the point where a good chunk of the 5th book isn't even in the movie.

 

[Tonberry]

The books are okay for what they are but in general I think the films are mostly way better for various reasons.

You’re pretty young still so I’d assume it’s still a decent time for you to get into them.
You can skip Cursed Child though.

 

[Zeo]

With how much Harry Potter gets reruns in paid channels (Warner Channel being the worst one since they dont have anything new to show, other than Cobra Kai) is hard to dodge the movies since they take the whole day

One time they did a complete rerun with another channel that i dont remember, it was close as worse like the Hotel Transylvania and Zootopia reruns all over the place lol

 

[Sweetmint]

Because despite they ripping out most of the books the actual key story points take that long even when they tried to use shortcuts lol.

In the end Harry Potter books are more fitting for a tv series and video games, not for movies because if it was a movie each movie would be like around around 5 hours long.

Because movies would take too long to produce it risked the kids playing the characters that has the high screentime in the movies cannot attend school properly until the whole shooting of entire series is done. And according to law a kid cannot work in such an industry for too long. Not to mention working with kids are hard and it calls for many redoes of scenes. Yet kept the length of the movies properly when the current industry would make the movies one hour shorter and wouldn't bother with making the last book having 2 parts movie.

One may ask "but uhhh tv series are longer than movies" but despite length production can use better shortcuts for TV series production that actually speed up the shit.

When you shoot a movie you actually shoot many scenes and you edit and merge shit to decide on how the flow of the movie should be, and it takes a very long time. Not to mention one director and key crew works at a time. TV series has less limitation, multiple directors and multiple crew teams works and simultaneously they are in charge of particular scenes and episodes that actually makes production faster to make it fit to realistic way to produce a TV series. While 1 episode is done they edit it while they shoot 2nd episode. When 2nd episode is ready to air they shoot 3rd episode and common scenes in many episodes and so on. But in movies shit gotta be done in particular order that increases production time. As a result while same script may take 2 years production to prepare it for watchable state, TV series way of shooting the script can take few months.

As a result it was stupid shit to release its movies when TV series episodes like 1 hour each would be a realistic choice, but thus greedy Americanos couldn't make more money just because they suck at business. To ensure it they invented Netflix and whatnot shit like HBO's Max. Instead of simple primitive selling movie tickets idea they could make more profit by advertizing on the channel, selling the TV series to various channels around the world and selling its disc version so people can watch it on their player. As a result the movies really sucked hard but it wasn't a failure in terms of profit, but TV series would really make way more profit. But now they making its TV series when its popularity died and then they playing their cards very wrong. They will make profit but not much. Probably its 2nd season will be cancelled due to heavy backlash. It can even start wars!!! lolol

Interesting

 

[romantic_cd_scratcher]

harry potter is great and much easier to watch than read. though the movies changed a lot around. the last two movies specially. look at ron throughout all the shows, he was treated as comic relief and all his cool moments were given to hermione as they always are together. all this because the movie makers couldn't find a cast that matched the actual comic relief characters. then theres dumbledore who was a lot more calm and calculative in the books. though the movies are not a disservice to the books. they are well made and a great watch for book fans.