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The Casual Vacancy
Aug. 17th, 2013 07:06 pmTitle: The Casual Vacancy
Author: J. K. Rowling
I can see why Rowling wrote her most recent book under a pseudonym. Because Casual Vacancy has fuck-all to do with Harry Potter, but every single review of it (including this one) starts out with a comparison. All I have to say is, to everyone who has every said that Rowling is a terrible writer, they can stfu and admit that their problem was not with the writing but with Harry Potter being a children's fantasy book. Because Casual Vacancy is not the sort of book that can be written by someone without mastery of the craft.
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In the end, the only real similarity between this book and Harry Potter is that I also blew through this--I read more than 300 pages today. Her writing, as always, has a momentum. In the Harry Potter books I thought it was her way of writing a mystery, but it turns out she can do it just as well based on the strength of her characters' voices. So sign me up for anything else she ever writes, seriously.
TRIGGER WARNING: There is both physical and sexual abuse, and some other things that deserve a warning but would completely spoil it, so if you want to know, pm me.
Author: J. K. Rowling
I can see why Rowling wrote her most recent book under a pseudonym. Because Casual Vacancy has fuck-all to do with Harry Potter, but every single review of it (including this one) starts out with a comparison. All I have to say is, to everyone who has every said that Rowling is a terrible writer, they can stfu and admit that their problem was not with the writing but with Harry Potter being a children's fantasy book. Because Casual Vacancy is not the sort of book that can be written by someone without mastery of the craft.
( More discussion )
In the end, the only real similarity between this book and Harry Potter is that I also blew through this--I read more than 300 pages today. Her writing, as always, has a momentum. In the Harry Potter books I thought it was her way of writing a mystery, but it turns out she can do it just as well based on the strength of her characters' voices. So sign me up for anything else she ever writes, seriously.
TRIGGER WARNING: There is both physical and sexual abuse, and some other things that deserve a warning but would completely spoil it, so if you want to know, pm me.