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I have to say, I completely disagree with Jaded's comment about
her readers growing up and losing interest. The books have gotten more advanced as Harry gets older. Each book has gotten darker and the mystery is still alive enough to keep people wanting more. They want to know how it ends. Her fans are loyal, no matter what age.
I think she deserves every penny she's made. She created an entire world with it's own vocabulary. She planted seeds for later books as early on as the first. And she did it all longhand in a notebook while living on welfare. Fairly amazing really.
posted by
-blackcat
on November 29, 2005 at 7:14 PM
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Editormum,
I'm not a Harry Potter fan, nothing against it, but I just mean that I'm not familiar with the series. Still, having said that, after I read JadedMind's comments, I thought, "what difference does it make if JK Rowlings deserves to make the kind of money she does." I mean, basketball players, rock stars and others seem to have skewed the scale of who gets compensated "fairly", but as long as the reading public keeps buying, then it's the breaks. If she can get the money, why not?
posted by
Blanche.
on November 29, 2005 at 6:34 PM
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editormu, Yes I agree. The combination of muggle-mind and magical is
powerful indeed!
posted by
kingmi
on November 29, 2005 at 6:28 PM
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I really shouldn't comment late at night
My last sentence made no sense. If they were the same age as the characters when they started and the 5th book came out five years later, they would be... the same age as the chracters still. I just had an epiphany about that while I was eating lunch and thought I'd correct it. I think what I was getting at is that she's thrown the schedule off and the 7th book will probably not be out 2 years from now...
Posted by on April 16, 2004 at 10:13 AM (permalink)
I think Rowling does all of that, but her series is not the only one to do it. (
A Series of Unfortunate Events comes to mind, although it may appeal to younger readers more). I think perhaps part of my problem with the series is the length of time between the books. By the time the fifth book came out, it was 5 years (I think) since the first. Her readers are growing up, and I don't think, for instance, that someone interested in Hermione's and Ron's relationship when it began (book 3) will still have the same interest when the final book comes out... they'll probably be in their early twenties at that point. So, I think your points are valid, but only for someone who starts reading the series when the final book is due out and goes through the whole thing at the same age. There's no point to assuming she's expecting her readers to grow up with Harry & gang - her first readers are already older than them.
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editormum
on November 29, 2005 at 6:27 PM
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