uselessoldguy@alien.topBtoBooks@metacritics.zone•What caused the Harry Potter phenomenon?English
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1 year agoUrsula K. Le Guin once waved off Harry Potter as just more Enid Blyton novels and it may be the most literary shade anyone’s ever thrown.
Ursula K. Le Guin once waved off Harry Potter as just more Enid Blyton novels and it may be the most literary shade anyone’s ever thrown.
I gave up reading the series after the nine thousandth time someone “grinned evilly” at someone else.
One of the most celebrated works of English-language devotional poetry is George Herbert’s The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, whose subtitle gets me giggling every time.
Ready Player One.
I still actively resent the editor who asked me to read it for a feature that would coincide with the film’s release.