So, Rowling Is Writing a New Book [series?]...

Steel

Well-Known Member
#26
Luckily, we DO know that it's a bad idea to make it a day one purchase!
 

Deathwings

Well-Known Member
#27
As long as she stick to her target audience this time, I think it'll turn out good.

That was the biggest mistake she made with HP, she started it as a children book and later tried to turn it into a teenage book by amping the angst and drama up to eleven. She tried to appeal to both crowd at once and as a result appealed to neither.
 

Lord Raine

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#28
Steel said:
Luckily, we DO know that it's a bad idea to make it a day one purchase!
God forbid we buy the book before listening to the legion of haters who didn't buy the book talk about how much they hated reading the book go at it against the legion of fanboys who didn't buy the book but won't stop talking about how much they loved it.

I cannot possibly see why one wouldn't want to judged based on the assbackwards opinions of the squealing masses instead of one's own tastes.
 
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#29
This thread makes me full of sadness.
 

Knyght

The Collector
#31
The Casual Vacancy said:
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?ade 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...Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
 
#32
Huh. For some reason I get a Pratchett-esque vibe.

EDIT: Googled it and found out it's being marketed as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising". So evidently not too far off there.
 

shiki

Well-Known Member
#33
Huh, I guessed right about the mystery thing but was wrong about it being a detective novel.

Half right is still half right.
 

Chuckg

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#34
Sounds a lot like "Hot Fuzz". Without the comedy.
 

WizardOne

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#35
have to agree. Sounds pretty awful so far. Standard sitcom drama.
 
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