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If I was reading more than 12 books a year, I wouldn't be so concerned to optimize my reading experience ;) Anyway, that was just an average, and I was just ta

• ajuc 13y ago
  What's real literature, then?
• gjm11 13y ago
  So you're happy to read things other than "literature". (Quite right!) Which makes it a bit strange to say "don't read this, because it isn't literature". (Not your actual words, but I don't believe I'm misrepresenting your meaning.) As you clearly appreciate, there are many reasons for reading things. Some of those reasons are best served by reading highbrow literature, some by reading technical books. Is there some general principle that makes it obvious to you that there is no good reason that would be well served by reading HPMoR? Perhaps you have read enough of it to know you don't like it. Perhaps you've found "fanfiction is always junk" so reliable a guide that it would take an enormous amount of contrary evidence to change your mind in any instance. Fair enough, in both cases; but in both cases the actual reasons are much more detailed than "it isn't literature, so away with it".