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[SOLVED] Why do stories have such effect on us? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Subject6051@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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All religions have it's own myths, own stories, own set of values. And these are/were good stories, I mean, even though they are not true, they are certainly interesting. You won't feel bored by it.

Harry Potter has the same effect on people, like, why should I take Harry Potter seriously, why do I care what happens after Dumbledore dances with Snape (won't give actual spoilers :')

I mean, it doesn't make sense to me. Why do I care so much about a soap opera that I am watching. Harry Potter is the product of just one brilliant woman's imagination. It has no real value on my life. I have no real motivation to read that other than the fact that I like it and I want to know. Harry Potter is somewhat irrelevant to my life, than why does it or any other good story capture our imagination?

Why do I care what the next season of House M.D. entails? Why? What should I care if he dies or lives? Why :')?

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[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Harry Potter is the product of just one ~~brilliant~~ barely literate woman’s imagination.

[–] Subject6051@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

she's good though! I don't know about her education but after all this, I am sure it doesn't matter. Why do you say barely literate, I don't think I found anything wrong with the books

[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Her writing is awful, wooden, and stilted. Her dialogue is painful. Her characters are boring at best and outright racist stereotypes at worst.

She either doesn’t know how to write skillfully or chooses not to. I figured the former was more charitable.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Harry Potter is a fucking Tory wet dream of a story.

[–] bran_buckler@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is a bad take. I’ve never read Romance novels, but I’m not enough of a book snob to tell people that things that get them reading or brings them joy is awful, wooden or painful to read.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
-Maya Angelou

Harry Potter was valuable in getting millions of people, especially children, interested in reading. Not everything needs to be high art, and not everything needs to appeal to you. You’re clearly not the target audience, so don’t shit on someone because they enjoy a thing that you don’t.
If there is something offensive in a book, it can and should be discussed, and readers can become aware of representation and other issues this way, but you’re not trying to have a good faith discussion with your comments above.