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The gays are now recruiting powerful wizards. +1 for gays.


Edited, Oct 20th 2007 10:46am by tarubstchef

Publicity + 1 for J.K.

God I hate this woman.

You do? So it's not because there are many better writers out there more deserving of her money than she is? Huh.

You mean writers that can successfully captivate a large variety of age groups with an intriguing premise, sympathetic characters, and an old fashioned enjoyable good vs. evil storyline?

I guess not.

They mean they needed to take something the vast majority of the United States could understand, because the average IQ there is totally under 80.

That doesn't mean it isn't a big thing, you just didn't jump on the Harry Potter bandwagon (neither did I.)

It got my son to read a damn big book when he was 10, and she makes buttloads of money, so I guess she's doing something right.

I really don't understand the "she sold out" or "she has no artistic value" comments people make about her. I mean, you write because you want people to read it and make money, right? So, sounds like she's a success whether you like her or not.

Edited, Oct 20th 2007 2:20pm by KassandrahKnight

|Is the queen even rich?

This is what pisses me off about the "I Hate Harry Potter" bandwagon. (Because we all know it's "cooler" to hate Harry Potter than to like the books, right?)



What the hell, Galka? That's an opinion. It's certainly not a fact. The amount of talent an author exudes is strictly limited to the opinion of someone reading her work. I find Rowling to be a fine writer, the Potter books were intriguing and I enjoyed them very, very much. That does not mean that I have the "reading age of a five year old." I also have enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, Silas Marner, Beowulf, and I can never get enough Shakespeare.

I am not a moron simply because I enjoy reading about an adolescent wizard and his friends. I understand that your online persona is that you hate everyone and everything, but making such generalized insults simply because you are bitter that a book has reached world wide acclaim and you just can't get into it is ignorant at best.

Edited, Oct 20th 2007 1:58pm by Belkira

Edited, Oct 20th 2007 1:59pm by Belkira

Sorry. I just hate being insulted simply because I like a book that someone else doesn't. Seems arrogant to me.

Who said it was a fact? Everything I voice on this board is my opinion, unless sources are cited.

And talent, while affected by, is not limited to the perciever. You can acknowledge someone has talent even if you don't like them. And yes, this woman has a talent; she has managed to get a hold of millions of readers. However, I found her writing to be boring and lackluster. I acknowledge her right to be rich, because she's very good at something. I just don't believe it was her writing. I just believe it's because people have limited experience of truly great writing.

The 5 year old comment is because people read Harry Potter and think they read fantasy. Then they move back to their biographies of pop stars and think themselves of a wider mind. That's not how it works, and it really pisses me off that just because Harry Potter is the popular fantasy book people read that and think they've read everything without giving the wider genre a chance.

The fact that I can't get into it is irrelevant. I read the first four Harry Potter books and fell asleep during the first movie. It's that people ignore greater works.

And yes, I have met people like this. I have in fact met (in real life) only two other people who read regularly, and one of those is my mother. However, a lot of people picked up HP. Now don't get me wrong, this is great. It's fantastic that it got people to read.

What's not so good that they then think they qualify as being intellectual and @#%^ off reading anything else for the next twenty years.

Maybe it was ignorant. When it comes to things that get my goat I rarely stop to think. Doesn't mean I understand that mindset any better though.

Edited, Oct 20th 2007 3:09pm by Galkaman

Good point. But then Microsoft Windows is the most successful OS. I've not met anybody yet that would say it's great.

Yes, it's up to them not to read. But they tell you they read and the only book in their CV is Harry Potter, it really saddens me.



I find the opposite. They either assume all fantasy books are like Harry Potter and so ignore them, or treat them with disdain because "they aren't as popular so they aren't as good." I even had someone apply that to Mr King's Dark Tower series once. Boy was I pissed.



True on both counts.