First, I don’t think highly of the original story, and I imagine this predisposed me to not liking fanfiction based on it.
While I enjoy EY’s other fiction—in particular, Three Worlds Collide, and the short beisutsukai stuff—HPMoR doesn’t have the same punch. It’s a bit like Atlas Shrugged in that he tries to sum up the entirety of LW philosophy in fictional form, and the result is a text that drags on and on with little thematic unity. I enjoyed parts of the Ender’s Game chapters, for instance, because they were more or less on topic the whole time.
All in all, I would rather reread “Shinji and Warhammer 40k”, “To the Stars”, or other really good fanfiction than bother rereading HPMoR.
First, I don’t think highly of the original story, and I imagine this predisposed me to not liking fanfiction based on it.
While I enjoy EY’s other fiction—in particular, Three Worlds Collide, and the short beisutsukai stuff—HPMoR doesn’t have the same punch. It’s a bit like Atlas Shrugged in that he tries to sum up the entirety of LW philosophy in fictional form, and the result is a text that drags on and on with little thematic unity. I enjoyed parts of the Ender’s Game chapters, for instance, because they were more or less on topic the whole time.
All in all, I would rather reread “Shinji and Warhammer 40k”, “To the Stars”, or other really good fanfiction than bother rereading HPMoR.