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Comment author: JoshuaFox 08 April 2014 03:17:02PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks for those answers; but they don't quite explain

  • why some people are induced to change their life by it (perhaps only because it piques their interest for other material on LessWrong)
  • why some readers get more enthusiastic about it than about some excellent non-fanfic books. (These readers are mostly not part of a group that might put social pressure on them to become fans.)
  • why Eliezer has described his own work as "fictional literature from what looks like an entirely different literary tradition." (That's in the April Fool's post, but he has said similar things elsewhere. And though this bullet point could be explained as arrogance on the part of Eliezer, some comments I've seen suggest that many fans agree with him.)
Comment author: drethelin 08 April 2014 08:22:30PM 2 points [-]

Very few books in any genre are as good at maintaining a constant and exciting level of interaction between interesting characters. Even some of the works that have HPJEV style characters like Miles Vorkosigan (who I love) tend to lean heavily on their central character. Harry Potter is extremely impportant to HPMOR but all his best scenes are interplays with draco, hermione and quirrel which involve back and forth interaction rather than simply domination.

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