WI: No Harry Potter

Ak-84

Banned
Anne Rice novels while popular were always a niche market. As opposed to the general nature of Harry Potter. And Lord of the Rings is rather old not exactly recent is it.
 

Hashasheen

Banned
Hmm... so she was in reasonable health and able to function mentally... yet somehow able to work... sounds like benefit fraud to me.
check it:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16989_p2.html

2nd on the list, here's the quoted part:
#2.
JK Rowling
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The Rags to Riches Story:
Every single article and every single Harry Potter book jacket seems to work in JK Rowling's humble beginnings as a single mother on government assistance. She then pulled herself up by her bootstraps and wrote one of the most successful series of books in the history of words.
Why it's a Load of Crap:
It's one thing to be born into poverty and claw your way out of it. However, it's a whole different game when your two-year stint on welfare is part of your business plan. Welcome to the Rowling School of Writing.
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Rowling's welfare assistance wasn't out of total desperation, it was out of choice. She was an educated teacher who left her job when she had a child. After that, she chose not to work and, instead, collected welfare to get the time to write her book.
While we are not denying for one moment that trying to care for a child, write a book and work full time would be very difficult, we will say that it's not impossible. People do it. Instead, she basically got her book advance courtesy of UK citizens. She also got a generous arts grant (unprecedented for an unknown author) to complete her work when the welfare check wasn't cutting it.
So this was a person who did spend a very brief time in rags, but she went to the store and hand-picked the rags she chose to wear.
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And now she has a throne.
 
She credits the Blair Govt's policies for this ironically. That's why she has given over 10 million euros to Labour in the last few years. Close to PM Gordo and the missus apparently.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
She credits the Blair Govt's policies for this ironically. That's why she has given over 10 million euros to Labour in the last few years. Close to PM Gordo and the missus apparently.

Nice to see a person which doesn't turn into a unpleasant version of Scrooge, when they becomes rich.
 
Valdemar: Not that there's anything wrong with donating to a political party. But given how much the RR has demonized her and HP because of "witchcraft" et al, there's a lot of irony to this.
 
Say if the Bloomsbury publishing had turned Ms Rowling down (it was her last port of call, twelve other publishers had turned her down) and she had returned to working with amnesty international, what would happen. Harry Potter made it cool to read again at a time when game consoles and computers made books seem to have replaced them completely. Would the whole generation have been lost to reading?
I strongly disagree. Goosebumps and Animorphs where both huge sales hits with the kids slightly before this happened.
 
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