Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

I mean, most of the books are good. Well, ALL of then are good bar Harry Potter which isn't just bad because the author is a loving worthless piece of poo poo; primarily bad because it's thematically incoherent compared to actual decent YA and is all over the loving place, it purely coasts on the virtue of its worldbuilding and even then that's primarily mediocre. It's a powerful attractant because it's insanely potent wish fulfillment and she managed to get the ideal crack recipe for a world that people can easily and repeatedly fantasize about existing in even though if you think about it for a second it would suck loving dick. Everyone in those books is a loathsome idiot and majorly unlikable, she completely and utterly bungled bizarrely hard subject matter she put in there and then didn't do the slightest bit to address.

Like any other author would have made the slave race way more low-key and less obviously chattel slavery, but she went whole-hog and even threw in a character that points it out and is used as a joke.

It's basically how no one addresses how hosed up sentient droids have it in Star Wars, but because it's not explicitly mentioned in that context for almost every movie in the series, people were willing to gloss over it. Then Solo comes out and directly points out how loving weird it is and makes fun of the character who does so, basically adding a whole bunch of allegory and broaching themes that should be addressed but are ultimately ignored.

Why do writers do this? It's insanely loving stupid.

Like, just make your slave race cutesie weird magical creatures, not disheveled, obsequious, terrified creatures who wear loving rags. What the gently caress man??? There's even a self loathing loving house slave in the books, she just literally could not keep herself from making it as blatantly parallel to real world stereotypes as she could. Stupid rear end mother fucker Rowling.

This isn't even getting into Jew Goblins, the absolutely brain damaged race purity politics that is also totally bungled, or the extremely hosed up gender dynamics between Harry's lovely dad and the stupid whiny gently caress PPJ rear end Snape.

Good YA usually has strong, centralized themes that it addresses completely. The narratives and complexity is usually pared down for its audience, but it deals with hard and grown subject matter directly with its allegory and commentary.

Harry Potter is just a grab bag of random poo poo, no great central thesis, nothing about its narrative has any tangible core to it. It reads loose as gently caress and has none of the tight pacing and plotting that A Wrinkle in Time has or, if we're looking at Harry Potter's contemporaries, A Series of Unfortunate Events or Holes.

Also, Wuthering Heights owns and is one of the biggest examples, probably only secondary to Catcher in the Rye of people not getting it and projecting weird poo poo onto it lol. Wuthering Heights is not a romance but is more-so bleak rear end, gothic, ethereal moodiness, and Catcher in the Rye's protag is supposed to be loathsome and annoying which owns because he's real af and exists everywhere in this world. Boomers are 90% just Holden Caulfields