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Originally Posted by SeaKing
.....Now with that disclaimer, I will say if you ever think KT Rowling is anything other than a self serving greedy egomaniac that struck it rich, you are deluding yourself. She is just playing to her self serving high brow friends with this pap about paper books, old book stores, and musty libraries being somehow holy.
Remember she owns a castle or two now. She ain't ordinary people no more if she ever was. No way, no how.
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Very classy....
You say you have no problem with authors, and lots of other people, who have made lots of money. It would seem you do with this particular author, for reasons known perhaps only to yourself. So, it would seem JKR has upset you in some other way ?
You also mention your opinion being formed by "everything" you have learned about her, which means you know all about her charity work, and her efforts for medical research, and the fact she made her "pile" through her own efforts and creativity. You then somehow deduced from that, that she is a self-serving greedy egomaniac. Well, she would be, wouldn't she........
Who "struck it rich", by creating something I'm sure gave a lot of people a lot of pleasure, and gave a lot of children a gateway into reading. Sounds a fair deal to me - but then, that's "not a problem to me" either.
( I'm afraid you left me with your flights of fancy about her "self-serving high-brow friends" and the holyness of physical reading materials.)
As for the "elitist" label, and "kowtowing to the high-brow literary set" - that's the same person who wrote a canon of children's work about magic and wizards ? Don't sound too elitist to me. But you obviously know how she is really being elitist - do tell, please.
Mind you, it would seem you have some pretty firm ideas about elitism - the New York Times, Book Review, plainly university medical research units and childrens charities, youth sports activities, and on, and on............
AND, she has the nerve to have a big house, the swine. So few self-made millionaires have those, do they. Anyway, that's not a problem for me.
And quite a few lottery winners, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, etc... are no longer " ordinary" , but that's again not a problem for me, I have to say.
Oh lordy.....