us from becoming sorcerers, by making them hard to read?
2007-11-06 19:15:14 · 10 answers · asked by Peter D 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Re: Garwy
That is a bombastic statement if I ever heard one. I have seen these Dick and Jane quality books and she is no Thomas Hardy.
2007-11-06 19:38:17 · update #1
Did you mean 'gramatically challenging'?
2007-11-06 19:26:51 · answer #1 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
J.K. Rowling is human just like everyone else, and God didn't MAKE her make mistakes in her books. Just because we read the books does NOT mean we will become sorcerers. If we all read Romeo and Juliet will we all get married at 13 against our parents will and then kill ourselves?
2007-11-06 19:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rowling is an atrocious writer, but a good tale-spinner. I wait for the movies because sifting through her mangled prose feels a lot, to me, like somebody scratching a chalkboard.
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Hilarious, apparently I hurt some fanboy or girl's feelings so bad that they had to thumb me down. How quaint and cute. To be expected in a world where art has become little more than an ATM machine.
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Garwy, I'm familiar with all three, and Adams is one of my favorites of all time. I don't think you know what you're talking about. Her style is more like Joyce and Pratchett than Adams. It doesn't flow at all. It feels forced, and it feels as though she rewrote it a hundred times.
That's not to say I don't like Joyce and Pratchett, it's just that they're difficult to follow and grammatically wrong.
2007-11-06 19:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I hope you're not serious...
Couldn't "God" do a little better than making JK Rowling run out of white-out???
I find her stories to be more believable than the idea that God sits around dreaming up practical jokes to play on working moms...
2007-11-06 19:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Peter,
JK Rowing is the author of JK Rowling books- therefore it is JK Rowling who is putting in any grammatical challenges.
Kindly,
Nickster
2007-11-06 19:24:52 · answer #5 · answered by Nickster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think you should try reading some of jk rowling's books yourself before you make such a statement. (though i am afraid you may find that difficult).
people who complain about jkr's prose style are usually folk who base their notions of sound english on cnn continuity links (or as byatt's novels, which are two steps down the food chain).
jkr is in fact one of the great prose stylists of the twenty-first century; though you would need to be familiar with carroll, hardy and douglas adams (her literary guides) to notice that.
2007-11-06 19:31:42 · answer #6 · answered by synopsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tsk..Tsk. Let me guess you are an Xtian fundie and you are pissed because the Xtian version of Potter, Shadow Mancer did not take of and Dumbledore is gay......LOL
2007-11-06 19:19:17 · answer #7 · answered by nicewknd 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Ah, another religion is born.
Potterism.
2007-11-06 19:22:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
JK Rowlings is god!
LOL!
2007-11-06 19:18:19 · answer #9 · answered by Klingon Atheist 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
lol,
dumbldor is gay......
2007-11-06 19:19:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋