When she was starting out, she didn’t have the money for a real editor. When she made it big, it was by the strength of her own bootstraps, so she didn’t need one.
I got the strong impression that by around Book 4, she’d more or less offloaded the writing to ghost writers. The length of the material combined with a real drift in writing style to the formulaic made the latter books worse and worse with each release.
By book 7, it felt like they were cramming a whole second story inside the first, for no reason other than to up the page count.
When you’re presented with a world so incredible with an execution that’s lukewarm at best, it allows your imagination to take over.
The whole early '00s Young Adult novel explosion was full of variations on Wizard High School. Lots of them were bad. Plenty of them were still beloved, for some seed of an idea or particularly compelling character that drove the next iteration of authors and screenwriters.
I like to think The Magicians is a good example of a second-order HP book (that I honestly didn’t love, but appreciated more after I got hooked on the TV show) playing with the root ideas and extending them in fun directions.
That’s why so many Harry Potter fans get defensive.
It’s just tiresome to see people call you a TERF because you enjoy a kid’s book.
A bit like screaming at someone wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt for being a fascist, because Walt Disney… was a fascist.
People take issue with giving more money to a person who has spent a good amount of her considerable wealth openly and maliciously harming trans people.
You’re not a TERF for being a HP fan, but you are directly funding TERFs if you buy HP merch or legally watch her stuff.
I got the strong impression that by around Book 4, she’d more or less offloaded the writing to ghost writers. The length of the material combined with a real drift in writing style to the formulaic made the latter books worse and worse with each release.
By book 7, it felt like they were cramming a whole second story inside the first, for no reason other than to up the page count.
The whole early '00s Young Adult novel explosion was full of variations on Wizard High School. Lots of them were bad. Plenty of them were still beloved, for some seed of an idea or particularly compelling character that drove the next iteration of authors and screenwriters.
I like to think The Magicians is a good example of a second-order HP book (that I honestly didn’t love, but appreciated more after I got hooked on the TV show) playing with the root ideas and extending them in fun directions.
It’s just tiresome to see people call you a TERF because you enjoy a kid’s book.
A bit like screaming at someone wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt for being a fascist, because Walt Disney… was a fascist.
People take issue with giving more money to a person who has spent a good amount of her considerable wealth openly and maliciously harming trans people.
You’re not a TERF for being a HP fan, but you are directly funding TERFs if you buy HP merch or legally watch her stuff.