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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s far better written than Harry Potter. [/quote]

Someone is jelly.  Did you mist women's authors are the ones they usually attack as not being 'well written'

Look, Jk Rowling is wildly successful and veru popular despite the recent trans stuff.

Same with Taylor Swift.  People hate them because they are popular and wildly successful.

Let's see what you can do.  Have you written a young adult fiction thay has changed the world?[/quote]

[b]NP here, the Harry Potter books are badly written and badly plotted. [/b]I [i]also[/i] don't enjoy Percy Jackson or the Brandon Sanderson books someone else recommended. There's a lot of terrible writing out there!

And people are allowed to like it anyway - we all have our problematic faves. People need to be comfortable saying "yeah, it's cheesy (or repetitive or sexist or whatever is the valid criticism) but I love it because  ..." instead of loving it and being unable to hear any criticism. [/quote]

NP. I think this kind of statement is kind of like...annoying. Definitely elitist/egotistical.

There are many things out there that are popular and kind of like, in my opinion kind of obviously actually poorly written (see Colleen Hoover). There are then a lot of things that are like different people's cup of tea that people might have legitimately different opinions about but to write off in such a dismissive way comes across much more like someone hating on popular things to come across as 'better than'.

HP is a coherent story that spans seven books. I think there are stronger/weaker books and stronger/weaker plot lines and def valid representation criticism but to just like, wave it off as crap is like, I dunno ok go feel good about yourself.

I would say you should addend your last paragraph. People should be able to be comfortable saying they like something that is kind of objectively crappy and understand it is crappy (hey! I used to watch the bachelor and I put this squarely in the category you describe). But you can also have 'problematic faves' where you can see that the work has issues/is imperfect (as I think virtually all works of art are) but doesn't need to be written off as terrible. You can critique a part of something, or the creator of something, while still appreciating the good in the art.

For example I think some Stephen King books are genius but MANY have huge issues. But you can look at the body of work and think about it critically instead of just saying like 'christine was trash so I never read another word'.
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