JK Rowling

[kindersurprise]

Anyone watching the JK Rowling interview?

Is it just me or would she not fit in well on MN?

It is just gone on as I wait for Corrie.

Was not happy THIS BIT NOW

A very honest interview.

I thought she was bloody rude. The people who live in that flat now must be really pleased.

Was she rude? Did I miss something?

When she was saying if it all went she would end up back there, like it was a come down.

The music was AWFUL.

I was really moved by that interview and touched by how gracious she was.
Not rude by any stretch of the imagination.

I have to say, I was gobsmacked by the flat- it was really nice, wasn't it, and not at all as it has been portrayed. I wonder if she had two flats at different times- I could have sworn she had a tenement flat in a different area, nearer to the cafe she wrote in.

I understood that to mean that she would be happy to be back there as it was such a turning point in her life. Almost like a home-coming

the flat we saw was where she finished the book. in an earlier documentary she went back to the first flat she lived in - when she was really broke - it was half the size! I think she was teaching when she lived in the one shown tonight.

Ah, so I was right, thanks Northern. I couldn't understand why she would have gone to Nicholson's every day from that one.

Pellmell,
that is the way I understood it. That it was a good time in her life when she finished the book. That the flat held happy memories. Not that she would hate to go back to the flat, that it felt like home, comforting.

Me and hubby in a minority then

Sorry but I would have to agree with Pellmell and Kindersurprise. IMO she came across as a really down to earth and lovely lady, I found it very moving when she spoke about the charity she has founded and her reasons for doing it.

You don't have to apologise for having an opinion! I only heard the last 10 minutes or so and it was just what I felt. I guess I'm getting cynical in my old age!

i wish she hadn't had messed with her face though, i sort of lose respect for women once they go the botox route

In RL I'm not always allowed to have an opinion and I spend most of my life apologising mainly for things I haven't done but thats a totally different thread and story!

I know she got paid for it but signing 1700 books in 7 hours - that takes some doing .

I thought she was a lovely lady

i'd have been digging that flat for real.

Her hand must have been all but falling off after signing all those books.

I liked that she had the lives of her characters all plotted out, they were like real people to her.

It must be strange to not be writing about them anymore.

she just took 'star wars' and middle classed it.

apparently