Everything has to be the new Harry Potter :|

[alcesverdes]

I didn't see The Book of Eli today, but I finished reading The Name of the Wind.

I absolutely loved it! ♥♥♥♥ The only thing I didn't like is that the next one doesn't come out until next year, and then I know it's going to be a long wait until the third one. But even that's fine, if the others are going to be just as good.

I loved the characters! I loved the settings! It irritates me seeing it compared to Harry Potter! :D

Now, I do like HP but not only I see this one much, much better written but also I don't see why every book with a school of magic has to be compared with HP. Specially since the University in TNotW teaches also 'mundane' subjects and anyone smart enough--or rich enough--can go there, unlike Hogwarts, where only children born with magic can go. Another important difference is that most of the action in HP happens in Hogwarts, while that's not the case in TNotW. Yes, big things happen in the University, but most of the action happens in other places: the roads, Tarbean, the taverns, Trebon... (Oh, the scene in Trebon! ♥!)

Not even the structure is similar. TNotW is Kvothe telling his story, while in HP we see it happening along with Harry.

Those books are just so different. But now that I think about it, maybe the comparison was made for marketing reasons. Which then would make sense from that point of view, even though I still strongly disagree. Mainly because I'm tired of seeing everything fantasy compared to Harry Potter, specially when there's no relation. It's annoying.

Comments

[murderinghours]

Don't you know? Fantasy as a genre and children having magic didn't exist before Harry Potter! EVER! It's a lie! Everything ever before Harry Potter DID NOT EXIST! The genre was a lie! McGonagall was in the Secret Garden because she knew that Mary, Dickon and Colin were going to have magic! Mathilda is obviously a way to say 'LOOK! She's a Puffie!'

DON'T BELIEVE THE WORLD LIES. EVERYTHING IS ABOUT HARRY POTTER 24/7.

... I think studying is breaking my brain.

[alcesverdes]

I think studying is breaking my brain.
BUT YOU'RE NEARLY DONE! JUST ONE MORE DAY!

And you're so completely right, of course. *nodnodnod*

[taotrooper]

It's especially funny when they call copycat to stuff that pre-dates HP. Like The Worse Witch, series I haven't read but I grew up watching the movie with Tim Curry.

Sometimes some similarities are more narrative tropes for coming of age than anything *coughPercyJacksoncough*.

[alcesverdes]

I've noticed that that sometimes people thinks that the first work in a genre they have contact with, is the first one that ever existed. It also seems that they want to think the one they know is the best there is because they liked it.
It's quite interesting. :o