J.K.Rowling

[Who's Wee Dug]

Her new adult book http://cbsn.ws/HNW7Fx

 

[Tris]

Unfortunately, I can't read it because I'm 12... Please, Mom, let me read it... ray:

 

[Bouncy Castle]

The write-up leaves me cold, I'm afraid.

The Casual Vacancy focuses on the little town of Pagford, with its cobbled square and ancient abbey, which is left in shock when parish councillor Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties.

The publishers said: "What lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils." The story follows the battle for the empty seat on the parish council "in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations".

Zzzzzzzz.

 

[michelanCello]

Dunno if I'll read it... it's not my kind of book so far...

 

[Dotsie]

She should have published under a pen name. HP fanboys will buy it and be crushed!

 

[michelanCello]

Maybe she was affraid it wouldn't be such a hit?

 

[Anonymous]

When I see such a tagline I come to two possible solutions for the plot:
1- Supernatural elements: That post holds great mystic power, though one has to hold creatures from beyond at bay.
2- Non-supernatural: Something with money laundering and general wordly power.

 

[pip]

She should have published under a pen name. HP fanboys will buy it and be crushed!

JK is a pen name . oddly could be interesting. publisher described it as a black comedy so we shall see. might be a new iain banks.

 

[stripy_tie]

She should have published under a pen name. HP fanboys will buy it and be crushed!

She's said that's what she'd prefer to do but that the press would discover it in seconds, which is probably accurate.

 

[Tris]

Anything J. K. Rowling writes HAS to be good, right???

 

[BatrickPatrick]

Sounds pretty boring to me...Maybe she's trying to be too grown up

 

[Catch-up]

I'm willing to give it a try.

 

[author3]

It doesn't sound very interesting and for some unknown reason it reminds me of The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

 

[Quatermass]

I heard that it was a black comedy, so I might give it a go. I enjoy comedy that's black as pitch, as long as it doesn't cross the line into DBC.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That is a serious amount of books sold on her new site.

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/potte ... um=twitter

 

[The Mad Collector]

Anything J. K. Rowling writes HAS to be good, right???

No it hasn't, none of the others have been. She needed to be taught how to edit, the whole series could and indeed should have been half the length it was and been better constructed with tighter plotting. Frankly by book 4 you can just read alternate pages and still not miss anything because she repeats herself so much.

 

[author3]

Anything J. K. Rowling writes HAS to be good, right???

No it hasn't, none of the others have been. She needed to be taught how to edit, the whole series could and indeed should have been half the length it was and been better constructed with tighter plotting. Frankly by book 4 you can just read alternate pages and still not miss anything because she repeats herself so much.

I agree,I think she was okay on the first three books but the fourth and fifth could have been 300 pages each and you could still have the whole story but I think the sixth and seventh were done pretty good.

I particularly liked the part at the start of The Half-Blood Prince when

Spoiler

the Minister of Magic start appearing to the Prime Minister

 

[Tiffany]

I'm willing to give it a try.

So am I.

 

[Tris]

Anything J. K. Rowling writes HAS to be good, right???

I didn't mean that they're necessarily ALWAYS good, but since I think all the HP books are awesome...

 

[The Mad Collector]

Awsomely badly written I assume you mean. The stories are OK but the writing ability is dreadful