MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
What do you think are the best-worst books in order?
#Ranking the Harry Potter Series
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Noveson
Hall of Fame
Dedans Penthouse
Legend
The Spy Who Trolled Me
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
I'm talking about the books as far as the thread goes.
I think for me:
Prizoner of Azkaban
Order of The Pheonix
Deathly Hallows
Half-Blood Prince
Goblet of Fire
Chamber of Secrets
Sorcerer's Stone
I think for me:
Prizoner of Azkaban
Order of The Pheonix
Deathly Hallows
Half-Blood Prince
Goblet of Fire
Chamber of Secrets
Sorcerer's Stone
Vcore89
G.O.A.T.
Exactly! Based on the movies. Might I add, Philosopher's Stone shouldn't be relegated to worst no matter what.
Oops, my apologies @MichaelNadal.
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Noveson
Hall of Fame
Why I bolded that was because it's called SORCERER'S stone. Not Philosopher's hahah.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Oh ok gotcha
yeah I like book one, it's just all the others are better.
TheMuzziah
Hall of Fame
Order of the phoenix
Deathly hallows
Goblet of fire
Prisoner of azkaban
Half blood Prince
Philosophers stone
Chamber of secrets
Deathly hallows
Goblet of fire
Prisoner of azkaban
Half blood Prince
Philosophers stone
Chamber of secrets
It's actually called philosophers stone
Noveson
Hall of Fame
My mistake, I just googled it. It's Sorcerer's in the US, never considered/saw that it had another name elsewhere.
Topspin Shot
Legend
Deathly Hallows
Philosopher's Stone
Prisoner of Azkaban
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Goblet of Fire
Chamber of Secrets
Philosopher's Stone
Prisoner of Azkaban
Order of the Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Goblet of Fire
Chamber of Secrets
WarriorRafa
Professional
GOF,OOTP,HBP,COS,DH,POA,PS. Hard to put PS at the bottom, it certainly wasn't bad. HP the best book series for me. Been a while since I read them, was totally obsessed with the books in my teenage years.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Exactly, 3 is good right from the start and It's where the series really takes off
a real page-turner.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
This is a great list btw. Order of the Pheonix is outstanding.
magdalenapratt
Semi-Pro
I think it is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. I feel that J.K. added too many unnecessary extra scenes or dialogues towards the end just to make the book thicker and thicker.
It is like Samsung or LG adding too much bloatware in their new phones.
It is like Samsung or LG adding too much bloatware in their new phones.
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MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
numerical order? barf lol
Breakpointerer
Legend
OoTP>DH>PoA>GOF>CoS>HBP>PS. Hard to rank them though, I loved reading all of them.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
I almost wanna read em again after this bump. Been 10 years since I've read em
Breakpointerer
Legend
Yeah it was 10 years for me too, until I read DH a couple of nights ago lol
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
DH is the movie im most dissappointed with, it doesn't capture the epicness of the book at all to me
it has great moments (both parts) but they changed so much, like the final battle etc that made it flat :/
Breakpointerer
Legend
Voldemort just seemed way too human and less scary for me.. Especially trying to hug Draco Malfoy *shudder*DH is the movie im most dissappointed with, it doesn't capture the epicness of the book at all to me
MurraysMetalHip
Professional
Tough question, but I think I’d have to rank them all at #7
megamind
Legend
Third Serve
G.O.A.T.
Currently reading them again, so bump, I guess? In the middle of OotP right now so I'll take a crack:
Worst to best:
CoS: more of the same, I felt
SS / PS: great novel and sets up the world really well, but doesn't keep me as invested as later books due perhaps to the shorter length
OotP: I'm enjoying this one, but it could have been trimmed a few pages; some parts are a real drag; I do like Harry's characterization in this one, though
HBP: don't remember this one as much (but I'm about to get to it), but I really liked the focus on Voldy's backstory and the book felt a little darker than some of the others; not an awful lot happens that relates to the whole series, though. Voldy's strange absence from this one probably explains it
GoF: the plot was probably the most nonsensical of any of the books, but it was still really fun to read through; I felt it made much better use of its long length than OotP (the other really long one)
DH: satisfying conclusion to the series, but again I'll have to get back to it; I felt like it wrapped up the plot points really well and I like the story of the Deathly Hallows
PoA: excellent transition to the longer entries and I liked the departure from having Voldemort as the main antagonist (which was handled better than 6); many new interesting characters were introduced as well
Movies (which were all much worse than the books but still pretty good; I won't explain these in detail, though):
GoF
CoS
SS
HBP
DH 2
OotP
DH 1
PoA
Worst to best:
CoS: more of the same, I felt
SS / PS: great novel and sets up the world really well, but doesn't keep me as invested as later books due perhaps to the shorter length
OotP: I'm enjoying this one, but it could have been trimmed a few pages; some parts are a real drag; I do like Harry's characterization in this one, though
HBP: don't remember this one as much (but I'm about to get to it), but I really liked the focus on Voldy's backstory and the book felt a little darker than some of the others; not an awful lot happens that relates to the whole series, though. Voldy's strange absence from this one probably explains it
GoF: the plot was probably the most nonsensical of any of the books, but it was still really fun to read through; I felt it made much better use of its long length than OotP (the other really long one)
DH: satisfying conclusion to the series, but again I'll have to get back to it; I felt like it wrapped up the plot points really well and I like the story of the Deathly Hallows
PoA: excellent transition to the longer entries and I liked the departure from having Voldemort as the main antagonist (which was handled better than 6); many new interesting characters were introduced as well
Movies (which were all much worse than the books but still pretty good; I won't explain these in detail, though):
GoF
CoS
SS
HBP
DH 2
OotP
DH 1
PoA
Lleytonstation
G.O.A.T.
Do they have books for the new prequel movies? Or is just movies.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
Third Serve
G.O.A.T.
Just movies, but they have the screenplays out there in print. Only the first one, I know of.
Federer and Del Potro
Talk Tennis Guru
Goblet of Fire was the best movie.
Book I cant remember
Book I cant remember
Larry Duff
Professional
The publishers in the US felt that Americans would never know what a philosopher was.
Anotherbrick
New User
Children should be reading the bible.
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Deleted member 774170
Guest
Lord of the Rings is better anyway
Federer and Del Potro
Talk Tennis Guru
TTW did not yet exist, so that's actually a good thought by the publishers.
Lleytonstation
G.O.A.T.
No. I read all 4 including the Hobbit. My gosh was that a boring a fruitless read.Lord of the Rings is better anyway
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Deleted member 774170
Guest
Tolkien isn’t for everyone, I’ll admit.
maybe I’m just a boring fruitless person
Federer and Del Potro
Talk Tennis Guru
Somehow I never got fully into LOTR, books or movies, even though I'm confident I'd have liked it.Lord of the Rings is better anyway
Thought The Fellowship of the Ring was pretty awesome (Book)
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Deleted member 774170
Guest
The movies are a million years long and the books are thicker than MILOS so I understand why it’s hard to get into
Lleytonstation
G.O.A.T.
I just don't have the memory to remember all the names and places in those books.
Federer and Del Potro
Talk Tennis Guru
Thought the universe was badass just didn't have the time to fully invest in it by the time I finally discovered it.
Apparently some of the video games are quite good too
Breakpointerer
Legend
Prisoner is the GOAT movie imo
Third Serve
G.O.A.T.
Fully agreed.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
I can't stand the 4th movie lol. It's worst movie/book ratio to me out of all of them, the 4th movie is so much worse than the 4th book.
And adults
Lol nah fam.Lord of the Rings is better anyway
3 is so perfect. Book and movie. Perfect
Third Serve
G.O.A.T.
Yeah, they changed too many things from the book. And the pacing was a bit off, too. Also, what was with the hair?
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
A desperate attempt to make them look younger lol. The only good thing about 4 for me is the maze/Voldemort reveal at the end, and even then, the maze was way more mysterious and epic in the book.
Breakpointerer
Legend
In the movie the maze was just hedges and sudden wind lol. In the book they had actual obstacles.
MichaelNadal
Bionic Poster
And the Sphinx