JKR Unauthorized Biography

[babynick34]

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From: babynick34
Subject: Re: JKR Unauthorized Biography
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6848] JKR Unauthorized Biography
Date: 8/14/00 4:35 pm  (ET)

Hi Penny and all

>Well, I broke down & bought the recently published unauthorized bio
of JKR.

Same here... also disappointed. Didn't tell me anything I did not all
ready know, and as for inaccruacys... well.

>(where were the editors??!!!),

Down the pub probably... thinking of all that cash!

>and is poorly researched.

Marc didn't seem to have bothered visiting the UK. Though at least he
calls Yate and Winterbourne small towns... and small they are.
I would not describe Tutshill as a city in any resepect. It's a very
small village, on top of a hill, overlooking Chepstow. Chepstow is a
town with small narrow streets.

>For one thing, he didn't even get her birthdate right.

You would have thought he could at least get that right.

>He also conjectures quite alot

I think he just made it all up, I certainly don't recall Jo mentioning
all that much about her parents.

>He is also annoyingly inconsistent -- in the same page, he describes
Jo as "painfully shy" and "self-confident & outgoing." Which is it?

Painfully shy.

>He gleaned *all* his information from published interviews.

Maybe he didn't even bother asking her friends/family. Maybe one day Jo
might let someone do a Biography... based on the real her.

>Virtually everything I've ever read has pegged that time period as more
like the early 1990s (1992 or so).

Harry has been in Jo's mind a long time. She has mentioned that it
came to her on a train that got stuck between Manchester and London -
but when exactly that was I don't think is fully known... but certainly
late 80's or very early 90s.

>All in all I hate the fact that I contributed $5.00 to this guy's scam.

$5. expect he gets far less of a cut than that.

>And, he acknowledges that adults love the books but he thinks all such
adults are parents who are reading the books with & to their children.

Yeh... lack of research!

>he refers to the 4th book as HP & the Doomspell Tournament.

Pushed for an early publishing date... did not wait till book four had
hit the shelf.

>Waste of money IMO.

Its a fun read though... if a quick one. At least it may come in handy as
a starting point in developing a Harry Potter Tour - as it does correctly
mention locations... though didn't mention anything about Chepstow castle!

Nick.