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Meg Kribble

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  • iOverlord 4:00 pm on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

    Rowling told the court she had stopped work on a new novel because her legal concerns had “decimated my creative work”. Poor dear.

  • neilstewart 4:06 pm on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

    Reduced it by a factor of 10?

  • lo-fi 4:22 pm on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

    You are both very wicked. Look at all the magic she has brought into your lives with her wizarding spawn and now you mock. Shame on the pair of you.

  • jennielaw 4:34 pm on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

    May I mock too, please? :D
    You know the coffee shop she wrote the first book in is now a Chinese buffet restaurant…and not a very good one at that.
    And somebody recently stole the plaque on the wall saying she’d written HP there.
    Weirdos.

    Random factlets :D

  • Meg Kribble 6:48 pm on April 16, 2008 | # | Reply

    Wow, iOverlord, I hadn’t heard that part. She is delicate, isn’t she?

  • iOverlord 9:25 am on April 17, 2008 | # | Reply

    Can I also say, and I know you’re not meant to say this, but I don’t actually rate the books – gave up after book three when she started trying to write longer books thatn the bible. They’re not bad, but can’t say they cast their spell on me.

  • neilstewart 10:33 am on April 17, 2008 | # | Reply

    Give me The Worst Witch any day!

  • jennielaw 1:03 pm on April 17, 2008 | # | Reply

    I took two attempts to read the first one (only one I bothered with), and was so unimpressed I didn’t realise i hadn’t finished it at the first attempt. Was only when a few years later I thought I should really give it a whirl, and the first half seemed familiar, that I realised I’d obviously put it down at some point years before and wiped it from my mind…

    So no, not my favourite books either – I prefer ones that involve me enough to get me to remember the plots!

  • Meg Kribble 2:24 pm on April 17, 2008 | # | Reply

    It’s SO refreshing to be among librarians to whom I can admit that while I enjoy the world Rowling created, her skill as a writer falls far short of her skills at imagining. It’s a shame, and the aparent lack of editing in the later books got increasingly annoying. I read the books eagerly as they came out, but I don’t understand the lure of reading them more than once or twice.

  • jrbeatty 4:44 pm on April 17, 2008 | # | Reply

    Someone’s read them more than twice? Who are these people? I like the world, the characters and the story, but the writing itself is not that great and the editing on many of the books is atrocious. I’m convinced that she’s a one-hit wonder, so to speak. I don’t think she’ll ever write anything else that’s nearly so successful, especially if her future books are so poorly edited.

    I’ll take my 50s and 60s pulp fantasy over Harry Potter any day.

  • AbsTracked 2:07 am on April 18, 2008 | # | Reply

    Yeah, but she’s a billionaire and we’re librarians who…BLOG.

  • jennielaw 9:01 am on April 18, 2008 | # | Reply

    But we’re happy bloggers, and don’t get stalked by photographers who want photos of our friends and family (or babies in a pushchair)
    http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1043120020080310

  • iOverlord 12:32 pm on April 18, 2008 | # | Reply

    My Flatmate (ex flatmate as of tomorrow) read books four and five about a zillions times.

  • Davina 1:23 pm on April 22, 2008 | # | Reply

    Is this a bad time to admit the number of times I’ve read each book? Though I must agree that she’s not the best writer in the world and could really have used an editor in the last couple.


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