Poll of the Day > Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is super entertaining.

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blu
07/10/20 6:47:14 AM
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Even if you dont love HP and just like the world, its very good.

It adapts the story of Harry Potter by attempting to explain wizardry through the scientific method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality

http://www.hpmor.com/

The Harry character is described by Vice as "a miniature Ravenclaw Spock with a taste for deductive reasoning" and the book as reading "like the originals after a lifetime spent playing Nintendo's Brain Training".

A review in the Hindustan Times described HPMOR as a "thinking person's story about magic and heroism", and the conflict between good and evil as being portrayed as a battle between knowledge and ignorance.
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Blightzkrieg
07/10/20 7:11:35 AM
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Reminds me of Ayn Rand's Harry Potter

Youre a wizard, Harry, Hagrid said. And youre coming to Hogwarts.
Whats Hogwarts? Harry asked.
Its wizard school.
Its not a public school, is it?
No, its privately run.
Good. Then I accept. Children are not the property of the state; everyone who wishes to do so has the right to offer educational goods or services at a fair market rate. Let us leave at once.

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DeltaBladeX
07/10/20 7:34:57 AM
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Started okay, got stupid, I'd rather read other stuff again over that one.
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1806845/DeltaBladeX
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ParanoidObsessive
07/10/20 1:30:03 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
Reminds me of Ayn Rand's Harry Potter

I always get a perverse sort of pleasure out of stories retold in the style of a completely different story/genre. Like the "Star Wars retold as Shakespeare" books, or the Shakespeare/Lovecraft crossover. Or Green Eggs and Hamlet.

And now I'm suddenly realizing how many of those types of stories revolve around Shakespeare.
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Blightzkrieg
07/10/20 1:51:35 PM
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I was super into Sword of Truth as a teen and it was basically Ayn Rand high fantasy + intense sexual violence.

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blu
07/10/20 2:33:02 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
I was super into Sword of Truth as a teen and it was basically Ayn Rand high fantasy + intense sexual violence.

Did it end well? I stopped on book 2 but the confessor trilogy or whatever had cool covers.

ParanoidObsessive posted...
I always get a perverse sort of pleasure out of stories retold in the style of a completely different story/genre. Like the "Star Wars retold as Shakespeare" books, or the Shakespeare/Lovecraft crossover. Or Green Eggs and Hamlet.

And now I'm suddenly realizing how many of those types of stories revolve around Shakespeare.

I really like this with music.

Theres Lovecraft told like Dr. Seuss also.
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Blightzkrieg
07/10/20 2:35:52 PM
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blu posted...
Did it end well? I stopped on book 2 but the confessor trilogy or whatever had cool covers.
Richard becomes a god and teleports all the bad guys into another dimension

Kahlan gets nearly raped in almost every single book and somehow gets out of it at the last minute

one book has an evil chicken

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