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From those monstrous bricks she shat out in recent years? Larry Send a noteboard - 27/11/2012 03:40:03 AM
Defend yourself!


A major problem that I've had with Rowling's prose is that she takes too long to get into the "hearts" of the characters, if she ever truly does in many cases. The characters in The Casual Vacancy are almost uniformly venial and there is little that differentiates them in terms of how Rowling depicts them. Couple that with a 250-300 page length story stretched over 500 pages and a tepid book is the result.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy Larry - 26/11/2012 09:06:37 AM 1357 Views
Thanks for the review Dark Knight - 26/11/2012 04:28:52 PM 625 Views
It would be for the best Larry - 26/11/2012 06:54:02 PM 605 Views
*sputters* Glaring faults?! Dark Knight - 26/11/2012 09:07:36 PM 606 Views
From those monstrous bricks she shat out in recent years? Larry - 27/11/2012 03:40:03 AM 682 Views
Somehow I didn't expect it was going to be any good. Tom - 27/11/2012 01:17:09 AM 619 Views
Stand by me? No? *NM* Dark Knight - 27/11/2012 03:17:09 AM 350 Views
Literary? Not even close. Also, it was a short story called "The Body". Tom - 28/11/2012 02:50:59 AM 636 Views
Considering that I've read/reviewed some of King's more "literary" efforts, I'd have to agree Larry - 27/11/2012 03:41:16 AM 639 Views
Oh, I forgot he attempted that. Tom - 28/11/2012 02:53:16 AM 661 Views
*shudders* Larry - 28/11/2012 04:19:55 AM 689 Views
At the rate he writes, I wouldn't be surprised if he has several novels of similar ilk in various Stephen - 28/11/2012 03:05:36 PM 670 Views
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