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how come nobody has bought Rowling's new book?

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notactuallyme · 27/09/2012 21:46

went into town at 4pm after work, thinking 'shame, they'll all be gone' only to find that every shop had them discounted - a tenner in Waterstones! HMV had piles of them and I gave in and bought one in Tescos for £9 - what happened there then?

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cocolepew · 27/09/2012 21:48

Because she' shite?

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lydiamama · 27/09/2012 21:49

I am waiting for the film

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notactuallyme · 27/09/2012 21:50

oh, maybe that's it...Grin just wondered - never read harry Potter but assumed that everyone would buy this?

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SchrodingersMew · 27/09/2012 21:50

Because it's not Harry Potter!!

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LemarchandsBox · 27/09/2012 21:50

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Northernlurker · 27/09/2012 21:50

Having read the reviews I think it's definately one to get from the library!

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TunipTheVegemal · 27/09/2012 21:52

The over-hype about this is incredible - on the front of the Times it says 'Rowling to revive the novel?'

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picturesinthefirelight · 27/09/2012 21:56

I only ever bought Harry potter book discounted. I never buy hardbacks only paperback but I didn't realise she had a new book out.

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JollyToddler · 27/09/2012 21:58

Because hp was very badly written. Good plot, but she should have got someone else to write it.

I'm sure her adult one will be just as bad.

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JollyToddler · 27/09/2012 21:59

Oh, and because she gives money to the labour party. I will not be buying anything else of hers if she's just going to give my cash to them.

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quirrelquarrel · 27/09/2012 22:02

Because hp was very badly written. Good plot, but she should have got someone else to write it.

Why do you say that?

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JollyToddler · 27/09/2012 22:06

Because that's what I think. Every time I have re read them I notice bits that are not very good.

In the first book, the bit where Hermione has to work out which vial Harry should drink is very weak. Throughout the books there are weak parts.

On the strength of the writing I really believe the books would not have been a success. The plot is excellent though.

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SuzySheepSmellsNice · 27/09/2012 22:06

I loved HP and won't hear a bad word against it. So there.

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EnglishGirlApproximately · 27/09/2012 22:08

New releases by popular authors are always discounted. Harry Potter was always half price in the first week, especially in the Supermarkets. Same with CDs and DVDs. They use them as loss leaders.

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Northernlurker · 27/09/2012 22:10

Harry Potter is easy to read with a good plot and some fab comic moments. It's not great literature, it's not exceptional. The first Harry Potter book is the book any clever, literate woman could write. The rest of the series and the global success is down to a lot of luck and some bloody good marketing. JKR is a sharp, bright woman. In the latter HP books and I suspect in this one, she has been chronically over-indulged by her editors and publishers. I'm sure this isn't a bad book but I doubt it's an original one or one that you'd want to take to a desert island. Still anything's better than bloody Kate Atkinson or the Time Travellers awful Wife.

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Itsjustafleshwound · 27/09/2012 22:10

It just doesn't sound like a book I want to read or even have on my shelves ...

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JollyToddler · 27/09/2012 22:12

I agree 100% with NorthernLurker

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TunipTheVegemal · 27/09/2012 22:16

I quite like Kate Atkinson!

I don't quite agree that any clever literate woman could write Harry Potter. There are too many imitations out there now that haven't just not had the hype, they're also not as good.
I don't think she's as many times better than everyone else as her fabulous wealth compared to the pittance most writers earn would suggest, but I think HP was a cracking first novel though I agree the later ones weren't tight enough.
Of course she was lucky too - she was there just at the moment when all the publishers were getting tired of gritty realism and wanted magic. A few years earlier and they might have not it a look in.

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TunipTheVegemal · 27/09/2012 22:16

not given it a look in, I should have put

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notactuallyme · 27/09/2012 22:16

Gosh, interesting thoughts here; didn't think of the loss leaders thing. - just v surprised that this morning it was all 'wwoo, were opening early' and tonight just piles of rejected little hardbacks. Will read with interest.

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TunipTheVegemal · 27/09/2012 22:17

Amazon charge more for pre-orders then on publication day the price shoots down.

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SuzySheepSmellsNice · 27/09/2012 22:20

I'm sorry are we assuming here I'm some poorly read halfwit???? Of course I've read better written books, but the whole world of Potter is just amazing

FYI I have a degree and Masters in Spanish and Translation, focusing of film and literature

:)

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