[HPFGU-OTChatter] AS Byatt - clueless

[Heidi Tandy]

This book is actually about three years old - I remember buying it in my 
first year in the ho fandom, when I was working on an Austen-inspired 
piece of hp fanfic (homage, on astronomytower.org).

The book is actually very faithful to Austen in terms of writing style 
and the characterizations are as on-point as possible.  But some of the 
reviewers at Amazon clearly can't take  a joke any better than Byatt, 
but then again, my feeling is, anything that irks her has *got* to be 
good.

Heidi

Http://www.fictionalley.org



On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 1:49PM -0500, davewitley wrote:
> I heard something on the radio (Radio 4 Today Programme) that I
> thought might interest some of you.
>
> AS Byatt has done it again.
>
> Apparently, some wily American author with an eye for the main
> chance ('I'm not pretending this is great literature') has
> published 'Pride and Promiscuity', a version of 'Pride and
> Prejudice' with the naughty bits left in.
>
> ASB somehow got wind of this and sounded off on 'Today' about how
> this was terrible, an insult to the reader's imagination, etc.  (I
> can't remember the rest.)
>
> In effect, she has just handed massive free publicity to what is
> almost certainly run-of-the-mill Austen fanfic.
>
> So, fanficcers, you can't make a quick buck now, but 50 years after
> JKR dies, you could get lucky and have some pompous person sell your
> wares on a national radio station.
>
> David, laughing, if not all the way to the bank
>
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