Steven King's Review of OoP

[tigerpatronus]

No: HPFGUIDX 68347

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "emmajess29" <
> cassandre.lamaudite at l...> wrote:
> > I really would like to read it but I can't read pdf (my computer 
> > really sucks...), have you got another more-readable-link for me, 
> > please ?
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> 
wrote:
> Unfortunately the article, which originally appeared in 
Entertainment Weekly, 
> is available online only to EW subscribers and AOL members. It's in 
the 
> current issue, which has Hepburn on the cover (in case you're 
looking for it at 
> the library or supermarket).

I managed to click on the link in the original email at the top of 
this thread and download it without problems even though I am neither 
AOL nor an EW subscriber. Does require Acrobat Reader. 

Excellent review, BTW. I think SK is more sympathetic than ASB 
because he's been shunted aside by the lit establishment even though 
he writes better, plot by plot *and* line by line, than most of the 
Leeterary folks. ASB, on the other hand, is Ivory Tower elite and 
very into language and the numinous (a word massively overused in 
*Possession*.) Even though SK won an O'Henry a few years ago for a 
short story he published in the NYer, people in the leeterary circles 
still disparage him and his writing, using that death-knell 
phrase, "if you like *that* sort of thing." JKR is going through the 
same thing, now. She's developing into an amazing writer as well as a 
gifted storyteller, and SK gave her the credit that is her due. 

Again, I am reminded that Shakespeare wrote for the masses and that 
his plays had to be sell-out hits to keep his theatre company in 
tights and lead-based makeup. 

TK -- TigerPatronus