The uncancellable JK Rowling

Yes, not only the same man but a traditional chauvinist pig! Definitely taking the piss.

Yes I enjoyed that very much. I thought, "She knows you know. She knows." In all the debate, abuse and support slung JKR's way it's often forgotten that she's a really brilliant storyteller. She puts you right in the room, creates great, believable characters, tension, pace and plot. That's why she sells by the bucketload. In the end we hunger most for great stories and she delivers.

I think a lot of the hate is spite and envy. Which only harms the people who feel it. Those who are generous in their praise of a talent they'll never have but can appreciate probably enjoy much better mental health!

I like to imagine, if JKR started a political party, that the annual conference would be serious, rational debate, in awesome outfits.

Oh yes!

I like to imagine, if JKR started a political party, that the annual conference would be serious, rational debate, in awesome outfits.

Yes, not only the same man but a traditional chauvinist pig! Definitely taking the piss.

New Strike adaptation starts Sunday and continues Monday, 9pm BBC1. Four episodes. The book is, as is nearly always the case, much better. It has a female character who says she identifies as pansexual but is only ever seen with the same man. I thought then when I read it that JKR was taking the piss, albeit very mildly which seems to be her sense of humour.

All the Strike books are available as audiobooks read by Robert Glenister and he's in the new TV adaptation too!

I agree with ItsAllGoingToBeFine: books are LOADs better than the adaptations! And money goes to JKR!

I saw the cover in the supermarket, now I don't need to read it!

Read an article supposedly originated in the Radio Times about the stars of the adaptation of the Strike novels, 'weighing in' on the 'JKRowling trans debate'.....rehashing the comments from two of the Faithless Three, but both of the stars had only positive things to say about JKR and (to my mind) sensibly declining to be drawn into a trans debate, (which these days I will take as a win). Seems the RT is trying to create a story of discord where none existed

Thanks 😊

Had no idea the bbc had adapted the books, are the others on iplayer?

Yes. The first three are. The fourth is out end of this month I think. Books are better though - the TV shows leave out so much of the books - each book is covered in 2hra

Ooh. I'm almost at the end of Lethal White.

Had no idea the bbc had adapted the books, are the others on iplayer?

Yay - will look forward to that. There is hardly anything on television I like much these days, I have stopped looking for anything (apart from the dogs on Gardner's World )

The BBC's big August Bank Holiday drama is 'Lethal White', the latest adaptation of the Cormoran Strike novels:

www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-08-12/strike-lethal-white-release-date-bbc/

I re-read the last four over the past few weeks in preparation and enjoyed them more second time around. I think knowing what an all-round good person JK Rowling is has made me feel more affectionate towards her main characters.

^The attached pic was posted on Facebook by one of my friends.. we met in a HP fan group.. she is also a university professor specialising in transgender issues.
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^Needless to say I am a coward and have not commented on this. I do however take heart from the fact that whenever she posts she normally gets 40-50 likes. On this one she's had only 7.

That's such a lame meme

I pre-ordered Troubled Blood at my local independent book shop as they are a lovely bunch in there and I like to support them.

I have already arranged to have nothing to do on the 15th September except sit on the sofa and read it cover to cover!

There is something very suspect about readers who think they somehow own the book/s and characters created and written by someone else. Blackwave

Unbelievable isn't it....am still trying to work it out

So the TRAs now have to boycott H and M, Warner Bros, Kings Cross Station, Lego, Waterstones and the BBC?

Isn't this the flip side of the thread about why M&S is doing so badly and surely it must in part be due to people boycotting the (currently closed) changing rooms?

There just aren't enough people interested on either side to make a serious economic dent. I suspect that the Chinese market for Harry Potter has a very limited crossover with the trans-debate.

M&S is failing because it's shit and Harry Potter is still popular for the same reasons it has been.

GunsAndShips If it’s not too weird would love a picture of your diorama, cos I’m nosy

I’ve not seen Black Milk before. I too ❤️ and if I was my younger, skinner, self then I’d love to wear some of their designs.

JKR is such a class act. I’m so glad, looking at her twitter, that the depraved responses to any of her tweets seems to have stopped. Either her team burned out the block button or (more likely) the dolts posting realised they weren't getting ego kibbles.