Would Rowling be good at non-fantasy writing? I remember the 1st chapter to Goblet of Fire, "The Riddle House", where it was non-fantasy-related up until the midnight Riddle House commotion, and that was actually really good, too! I look forward to the new book!
Ugh, it's SO SO good! Stupid simple-brained Potter fans rating this book poorly on Amazon because they expected it to be the 8th Potter novel. So annoying. The reviews are so off-base and unfair. I say this as a Potter fan who bought this book KNOWING it wasn't meant to be ANYTHING like the Potter novels.
its so unfair to rowling that potter fans are giving bad reviews to her new book expecting it to be somewhat close to the HP series. I am a die hard fan of harry potter i grew up with HARRY RON and HERMIONE and harry potter has ended. We need to accept the fact and enjoy the new books of JK rowling.
I felt so boring in the beginning that i was thinking when this will be over. But in the Last i was crying. Krystal weedon was not good girl but she wanted to be a good girl, thats why i liked the character. She only wanted a clean house in Pagford, and a Telivision.
I don't agree with JK on that. There are billions of people out there, therefore the competition is immense, and only the extremely talented produce something that "contributes" to society in a significant way like JK has with her books. Not only that, even if you have the qualities, you need luck. Life can be great or torturous or everything in between. It's not about you per se, it's about a whole host of factors that are often completely outside your control. I say take care of your body and mind. Without that in order, you are going to have a miserable time, and you can forget about contributing...as it's all about survival then. So, NO, I strongly disagree with JK on that. Her children should be true to themselves and not have their lives dictated to by her mother, no matter who she is. Having a parent disappointed in their children for not living up to their expectations is a pointless source of misery.
I don't really like the book. No no I'm not judging this book based on Harry Potter Series, actually I'm not a fan of Harry Potter int he first place lol. Casual Vacancy has too many characters and every character has a bunch of stories to tell, this branching strategy is enticing at first but as the story goes on everything just gets entangled and nothing new emerges, very much like a detailed Twitter board of people's lives in Pragford. No climax, no plot twists and the only relief is that someone died in the end which removed a huge stone off my chest. If it wasn't written by JK Rowling, I wouldn't even bother to finish it after reading the first two chapters.
