Comments on Profile Post by Kaddrii

  1. TomvanWijnen
    TomvanWijnen
    I've read all the books, but only watched the first one or two movies... Was 9ish back then, though. :P Should probably read everything again, at some point... :D And possibly watch the movies. :P
    Jan 4, 2019
  2. SoulPunisher
    SoulPunisher
    The books contain some of the worst writing that got popular I've ever read and J.K Rowling's continued additions to the franchise are a desperate attempt to keep herself relevant while spoiling the world she made two decades ago. The movies are decent watches tho you should definitely hit the rest of those up
    Jan 4, 2019
  3. TomvanWijnen
    TomvanWijnen
    I'm curious what you you find so terrible about the writing. (do mind I've only read the Dutch books so far)
    Jan 5, 2019
  4. Kaddrii
    Kaddrii
    ^ same
    But I haven't read the Dutch books xD
    Jan 7, 2019
  5. SoulPunisher
    SoulPunisher
    The English version contains a lot of poor sentence structure. She makes a lot of sentences needlessly complicated which can mentally wind you - you can cut a bunch of words out of her sentences and have them say the same thing but shorter and more effectively. She's constantly switching between tenses and that is a big no no.
    Jan 8, 2019
  6. SoulPunisher
    SoulPunisher
    Also she doesn't connect plotlines to eachother. It's hard to explain without spoiling, but there's many times where it's just painfully clear all this has developed as she wrote. She moves past events at a breakneck pace and some major ones vanish into thin air as if they never happened.
    Jan 8, 2019
  7. SoulPunisher
    SoulPunisher
    And there's A TON of "he exclaimed," "he shouted," "he whispered." The key to writing dialogue is that shouting, whispering, talking normally are all conveyed by the dialogue and not told to the reader. Punctuation exists and she even had italics and bold writing at her disposal if she really wants to get creative.
    Jan 8, 2019
  8. Kaddrii
    Kaddrii
    I see. To get what you mean, I guess I will have to see for myself! In my opinion though, a lot of books are like that. Maybe she was just having fun writing the books, not intending to be famous or anything.
    Well, idk lol
    Jan 9, 2019