02-24-2012, 12:03 AM | #16 |
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If it is released as an ebook for Kindle I may give it a go. Never managed with the Potter thing but then I was not exactly the target audience now was I
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02-24-2012, 12:31 AM | #18 |
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Lol, I reckon a lot of those readers can be categorized as just adults - no young prefix. First read it when I was 13 back in 1998. Just a couple of years shy of 30 now. For folks who were the same age as Harry when the book was released, they'd already be 25~26 now.
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02-24-2012, 03:24 AM | #20 |
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Must remember that one, excellent.
However - "whose Twilight series at least partially filled the gap opened by the conclusion of the Potter stories. " Eh ? Rather like any other magicky wizardy "childrens" books then - oh, or vampirey, forgot that..... And while praising her appeal to all ages, the article then say's it's tricky for an author once they're categorised as a child's author....... I think she'll manage. Last edited by carpetmojo; 02-24-2012 at 03:33 AM. |
02-24-2012, 05:24 AM | #21 |
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Even though I never could get into the Potter books, I have a huge respect for her success as an author, and am quite interested to see what her new novel will be like. I don't have to personally like the books for myself, to recognize that she had the knack for mass appeal and give her kudos for it.
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02-24-2012, 06:23 AM | #22 |
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Of course that doesn't mean that what they were infering is that they would publish the ebook 18 years after the physical book release, but I can hope. |
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02-24-2012, 08:28 AM | #26 |
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No that is reserved for the Twilight series...which I still don't understand how in the Gods' names my wife can enjoy. She universally pans the writting and thinks the themes are horrible, but she has also read the series at least 4 times over now.
Frankly I, and she at least espouses this, worry about books like that seeing as how I am going to have a daughter in the next few weeks. I personally don't think it is a particularly enriching reading experience or good that the take away message from the books is that obsessive personalities and stalking relationships are both normal, good and to be wanted. I really don't want my daughter reading books like that until she is very much old enough to parse out the horse pucky from it all. As the books would have you believe, you only truely love someone if you are willing to stalk them and conversly someone only really loves you if they stalk you. |
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02-24-2012, 08:46 AM | #28 | |
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IMO popularity is no measure of greatness, or even competence; witness the inordinate number of awful television shows, movies, books, magazines, YouTube videos, etc. Popularity generally is a good measure of how popular something is, and that's about it. Teenagers and younger are immensely conscious of peer acceptance and will follow the trend of almost anything whether it be clothes, music, or, wait for it...books. I think JK Rowling is a writer of moderate quality, she certainly isn't awful, but IMO she isn't superlative, hence "mediocre." I'm not a "hater" but then again I'm not a "fanboy." |
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Well spoken...and at least you did not have a conniption at the "suggestion" of an insult of the ALL MIGHTY HP... I reckon there will be riots on the streets of Europe in 500 years time if anyone tries to purposely delete a copy of a HP novel.... Armageddon is coming then..
Congrats on your incoming Daughter..... Alas I forget many people like to be purely entertained when reading.... Pulp Fiction it is..... Twilight Wouldn't touch it with a 3 meter barge pole.... I'll stick to the boring JM Coetzee and Yeats, and Bulgakov....etc.... Quote:
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