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I find this very interesting. My model of most LWers doesn't like Murakami very much. I read Kafka on the Shore for an English class, and it was OK, but I wouldn't exactly say it was in line with much of LW philosophically.
Meh. I don't particularly care what LWers in general like. They have the poor taste to tend to enjoy HPMoR.
I haven't read HPMoR before, so I'm genuinely curious about your reasons for disliking it. I would appreciate it if you could enlighten me -- I usually seek out critical reviews before I read favourable ones.
First, I don't think highly of the original story, and I imagine this predisposed me to not liking fanfiction based on it.
While I enjoy EY's other fiction -- in particular, Three Worlds Collide, and the short beisutsukai stuff -- HPMoR doesn't have the same punch. It's a bit like Atlas Shrugged in that he tries to sum up the entirety of LW philosophy in fictional form, and the result is a text that drags on and on with little thematic unity. I enjoyed parts of the Ender's Game chapters, for instance, because they were more or less on topic the whole time.
All in all, I would rather reread "Shinji and Warhammer 40k", "To the Stars", or other really good fanfiction than bother rereading HPMoR.
I've read some of his short stories and thought they were meh. They had a few interesting points, but didn't really connect.