divabot posted:

They have in fact made and distributed bound copies and the author is seriously recruiting his minions to spam the 2016 Hugo for Best Novel with it (because spamming the Hugos, particularly after this year, is an excellent way to get people to love you and think you're anything other than a stupendous cockhead), so it'd probably actually be on-topic for this thread. Though the linked thread is the place to go.

I did read the thing to the end. Because I have no taste and most of the fiction I read is actually trashy fanfic and my inbox is filled with Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity alerts. (Mostly of Worm, which will be good once a proper editor gets to it. And I'll even confess it was HPMOR that tipped me off to Worm.) As a fanfic, HPMOR is a bloated didactic Mary-Sue that should be a third of the length, but it's pretty good for the category (because most fanfic is actually worse) and he did in fact finish it, which is rare for the category.

But I am not, as it happens, under the delusion that glitzy-surfaced nerdsniping trash, much as I enjoy the genre, is the same thing as work of literary value. HPMOR fans seriously consider it what proper literature actually is and should be. Holy crap.