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| Original Title: | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.hpmor.com |
| Characters: | Draco Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Quirinus Quirrell, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Cedric Diggory, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, Bellatrix Black, Lesath Lestrange, Hermione Granger |
| Setting: | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry(United Kingdom) |
Eliezer Yudkowsky
ebook | Pages: 2184 pages Rating: 4.39 | 12721 Users | 1263 Reviews
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| Title | : | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality |
| Author | : | Eliezer Yudkowsky |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 2184 pages |
| Published | : | March 14th 2015 by hpmor.com & fanfiction.net |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Fan Fiction. Philosophy |
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results.Rating Appertaining To Books Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Ratings: 4.39 From 12721 Users | 1263 ReviewsEvaluate Appertaining To Books Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
I wanted to like this fanfic. As a mathematician and an atheist I should have liked this fanfic.I didn't. The writing is poor (even for fanfic) and the characterisation worse. The author has turned Harry Potter into the most unsympathetic and unlikeable child I can possibly imagine - which I would guess from his bio is also a blatant Mary-Sue.Should have been called Harry Potter, the Snotty Little Git.This is an enormous fan fic version of the first book in the Harry Potter series, rewritten portraying Harry as a hyperrationalist.Not worth five stars as a work of fiction per se, but fascinating enough to get bumped up to amazing because of several other factors: Folks with mildly compulsive rationalist and/or scientific leanings often have trouble with the nonsensical goings-on of magical worlds. Occasionally Yudkowsky nails this so well that I was laughing convulsively. The author sometimes
If you are a geek, you will most likely enjoy this book far more than the actual Harry Potter series. This is especially true if you're a fan of smart characters who don't make stupid decisions that leave you screaming at the author (I always get this unbelieving look in my eyes when, in the first movie, Harry keeps leaving his invisibility cloak on the ground in random places.)Also, this is the book that sparked my interest in science and rationality. So there's that, too.I've always considered
A fun take on the Potterverse from someone obsessed with all the ways that humans fail to behave in ways that make sense - for a rather strict meaning of "make sense". Leaving aside the usual fights over the legitimacy of fanfic in general, the big question is how much Yudkowsky's Potter is an idealized author stand-in (a "Mary Sue", or "Marty Stu" in the parlance). My answer: Quite a lot, but not fatally. On the minus side, this Harry Potter talks and thinks quite a lot like someone in his late
HPMOR (as it's known to fans) is the perfect book for nerds: funny, clever, rife with allusions to other great nerdly works, and yet seriously capable of teaching something real. In this case, the real value-add are principles of reasoning that can lead to better decisions by genuinely emotional, non-Spockian humans in real life. Shockingly, this story also has a plot. It runs roughly parallel with the HP canon, but the relationships are different and the entire arc of the Potter stories seems
I will keep this review brief and to the point. First off, all the negative reviews come from people who are either too stupid to understand it or are too in love with the Potterverse to accept something better. Keep that in mind. Written with a magical version of Ender Wiggin, Harry Potter is a child genius who is skilled in the ways of science and (Yudkowsky's brand of) rationality. Naturally, Eliezer toys with all the loopholes of Rowling's original works, and adds far more depth to the
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