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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 1601 Views
Thanks for the review Dark Knight - 26/11/2012 04:28:52 PM 818 Views
It would be for the best Larry - 26/11/2012 06:54:02 PM 793 Views
*sputters* Glaring faults?! Dark Knight - 26/11/2012 09:07:36 PM 796 Views
From those monstrous bricks she shat out in recent years? Larry - 27/11/2012 03:40:03 AM 865 Views
Somehow I didn't expect it was going to be any good. Tom - 27/11/2012 01:17:09 AM 816 Views
Stand by me? No? *NM* Dark Knight - 27/11/2012 03:17:09 AM 437 Views
Literary? Not even close. Also, it was a short story called "The Body". Tom - 28/11/2012 02:50:59 AM 813 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 824 Views
Oh, I forgot he attempted that. Tom - 28/11/2012 02:53:16 AM 838 Views
*shudders* Larry - 28/11/2012 04:19:55 AM 870 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 873 Views
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