Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
Update: further information by @BigDiction@lemmy.world in the comments below
Okay yeah Harry Potter fans need to fucking stop. Just fucking stop. Read a book that isn’t fucking shit.
Read literally any fucking book
Okay maybe have some standards. You know they’re gonna go straight for mein Kampf.
Harry Potter fans aren’t necessarily readers. Harry Potter succeeded because a media empire was built with it, not because it was a good story that spawned a lot of readers.
The books (especially the first) were one of the biggest best sellers of all time and an international success long before there were movies or any “media empire”, saying it didn’t spawn a lot readers is just … dumb.
I’m pretty sure a lot more people have read the books than thre is Harry Potter fans these days, simply because most people eventually grow out of it.
Reading one book, or a single series of books doesn’t make you a reader. I wouldn’t claim to be a plumber just because I’ve fixed my sink a handful of times.
The idea that Harry Potter spawned a “generation of readers” is entirely manufactured by its publishers, there’s no data backing that claim up..
Nobody said it was a revolution for reading or literacy, but just by sheer number the book still has still likely spawned more readers than any other books in recent decades.
The first few books had zero merchandise because Rowling was against it. I know, talk about a change of heart…
Maybe someone should teach them to read?
Yeah, you know like the parents, and their teachers. J KKK Rowling has done enough damage.