Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,192,332
i read harry potter growing up but i grew out of it around the time i hit 14. at the same time, if we raise children on books like harry potter are we leading them to only read young adult garbage and genre fiction? stephen king said he likes the harry potter series because it leads children into reading his books. that's really fucking scary for the future of fiction if true. look at all the booktubers who barely discuss anything beyond the newest john green or hunger games or game of thrones or whatever. i don't think reading shitty books is much better than not reading at all.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 10 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,192,480
@1,192,332 (C) > i read harry potter growing up but i grew out of it around the time i hit 14.
Same thing my daughter did. She turned 14 earlier this year and seems to have eased up on being a Harry Potter fan. She still reads the book when she's bored, but she no longer wants Harry Potter toys/posters/mugs or anything else Harry related.
> i read harry potter growing up but i grew out of it around the time i hit 14. at the same time, if we raise children on books like harry potter are we leading them to only read young adult garbage and genre fiction? stephen king said he likes the harry potter series because it leads children into reading his books. that's really fucking scary for the future of fiction if true. look at all the booktubers who barely discuss anything beyond the newest john green or hunger games or game of thrones or whatever. i don't think reading shitty books is much better than not reading at all.
i said that I don't like Stephen King one time and one of coworkers started going nuts. he was like 'you read the wrong books' lmao