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Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« on: July 31, 2005, 09:06:57 PM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4732385.stm

Interesting. While terry prattchet appears to be in the right here, it's hard to tell without seeing the original interview and his full letter. Still, he's got a better hat than she does, so he wins. :P
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2005, 10:05:48 PM »
He definitely wins for the hat, but I have to laugh at her quote:

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The magazine also said Rowling reinvented fantasy fiction, which was previously stuck in "an idealised, romanticised, pseudofeudal world, where knights and ladies morris-dance to Greensleeves".
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2005, 12:18:32 AM »
She sounds pretty moronic.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2005, 01:21:19 AM »
When you make 27 million in 24 hours due to book sales then you can say what ever you want no matter how crazy.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2005, 01:23:53 AM »
Yeah, it really astounds me.  Is the series really that good?
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2005, 01:29:04 AM »
Terry Prattchet just sound envious in that article, not to mention rather whiny.

So what if Rowling doesn't want to be a poster child for the fantasy genre.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2005, 02:15:47 AM »
Okay, for some reason this just finished off my day. I am no longer amused by anything. Grrr. That article made me quite cross. They're both really cocky and rude.

It's silly how Rowling can bring herself to believe that there is anything shockingly original at all in her world. Did she invent mermaids or centaurs or giants? And to claim not to have intended fantasy is a laughably poor attempt at something like false modesty on her part. (She was clearly JK...)

However, that Prat guy is a jerk to her about it.

As famous writers/public figures, they should both hold themselves more gracefully than all that. Neither side deserves to be taken. Bad choice of topic to write an article about.




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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2005, 03:17:48 AM »
Well I don't know either, and I doubt either are rude jerks (nor did I think Pratchett was being one), honestly though, Rawling has brought any critizim about this on herself for being so full of it, however others shouldn't make such a huge deal about it.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2005, 05:42:39 AM »
Terry Pratchett 4 Teh WIN!!!!!
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2005, 09:37:28 AM »
None of these comments, nor the article, have bothered to take note of Pratchett's personality: he's a sarcastic wit, and is always making jokes, at least in public. I doubt he was acting like a jerk at all. He was probably just being witty.

ANd it's true, Rowling is at the expense of other fantasy writers: especially when a magazine can agree with her that fantasy is pat and uninventive.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2005, 11:53:12 AM »
I would sell out to be the richest woman in England though.  Seriously.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2005, 12:11:43 PM »
well, maybe not richest WOMAN. But richest Man? yes, I would too.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2005, 12:57:11 PM »
Na she's the richest woman in England, above the Queen (#2) and Madona (#3).
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2005, 10:35:38 PM »
Yes, but E is saying he wouldn't sell out if he had to become a woman to be rich.
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Re: Terry Prattchet vs JK Rowling
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2005, 01:07:11 AM »
I dono, he might.  Someone offer him a billion dollars.
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