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I was very spectical about this. It sounded like a typical "atheist misantropic know-it-all" thing. I gave it a try reading on my mobile phone on train rides. A
by aw3c2 16y ago
I was very spectical about this. It sounded like a typical "atheist misantropic know-it-all" thing. I gave it a try reading on my mobile phone on train rides. As it turns out this is a very well written (!), entertaining, witty different take on the whole Harry Potter universe. Harry Potter actually is the "atheist misantropic know-it-all" (yes, I am using wrong words, sue me) but the story is not. It actually evolves around his struggles with himself because of those character traits. It is very exciting, funny and as I said, professionally written. Highly recommended!
The epub is missing some formatting and paragraphs (as in empty space) though, I read it in fbreader. Nothing too bad but you might stumble on them.
- zyfo 16y agoThat's the reason I didn't give it an honest chance. Nice to hear that was a misconception! The other problem I have with it is the length. It seems as if its ideas could've been expressed a lot more succinctly. Is this another misconception? Or perhaps one isn't supposed to read it for the ideas themselves, but rather for the lit-wrapping? If so, is it of any interest for a non-HP reader?
- aw3c2 16y agoI could not care less about the moral, ethics or ideas. I just like reading it as some kind of alternate Harry version with some tangents that appeal to the science nerd or socially inept geek side of me. There are many moments where full knowledge of the Harry Potter books (at least the first 3) seems important. Also I don't think you would have much fun if you do not know how the characters normally are. It seems really long. I am not even one third through it yet. To be honest, I often noticed myself skip over the parts where some scientific method or things like that are explained/discussed. It is written well enough that so far I could pick up the gist just by reading lightly as I always do (scanning the pages rather than reading word by word (I wish I could do that sometimes)).
- Kisil 16y agoI believe the idea was to package the ideas in an approachable (and perhaps potentially more viral) format. The ideas are more succinctly expressed at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences, but I can't see your average Harry Potter fan stumbling into those and sticking around.
- msg 16y agoThe early chapters were much more ham fisted about the ideas from Less Wrong, almost Ayn Randian in their clunkiness. Eliezer has raised his game a lot over the course of the story.
- andrewflnr 16y agoI have never read the original HP stories, and I have read HPMoR three times, just because it's a fun story.
- calibraxis 16y agoWhoa yes, I've just read two chapters, and it's surprisingly good. (I had a similar surprise with the original Harry Potter book...) I wonder what the license is. I'm interested in seeing if the reactions of some people in ch.2 can be made a tiny bit more realistic, without maybe reducing the comedy.
- rms 16y agoBy default it is published under copyright, though with the caveat that copyright of fanfiction might not legally exist.
- SamReidHughes 16y agoIt probably exists in a practical sense after the copyright on Harry Potter expires and before the copyright on the fanfiction hasn't.
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