Books

I loved David Eddings as an easy read with a good story. It was my start into reading fantasy. Feist's Magician is another brilliant book and the beginning of a long adventure.

I just read them alongside my daughter, having previously skipped them in favor of the movies. I’d actually say they’re a perfect entree into reading for pleasure, and while hardly Faulkner or James Joyce, they’re sophisticated enough that you won’t feel silly, and the writing subtly grows with the characters (and the original audience), so the last book is longer and denser than the first, though again, it’s not trying to make you dance with the prose or analyze the book in order to glean any enjoyment.

Jo Rowling is who she is, as a writer and a person, and I won’t judge if you find a way to read them for free, but she really did assemble something magical with that original run of books.

The Harry Potter books are a bit kiddish but that’s largely motivated by Harry being a young character. They tend to mature as you read through them and a good trait of kiddish books is they’re easily digestible. If you want to try something similar feeling to Harry Potter but new to you check out The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - it’s the first Percy Jackson book. You can read the 5 book series or there’s so many spin offs now you can spend a long time in that universe