[HPforGrownups] Bad Writing? (was: JKR and the boys)

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 162416

        "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> wrote:

> I have often found JKR's grasp of emotions
> and emotional psychology to be so laughably 
> bad as to inspire nothing but derision.
> [
] Excuse me while I engage in incredulous 
> laughter at the bad writing. JKR often 
> confuses detail with completeness. 
> Her plots, for instance, are incredibly
> detailede, but often filled with huge, gaping holes. 

Eggplant responds: I know for a fact you have been posting to this list for at least a
year and a half, so after reading the above my curiosity got the
better of me so I have to ask, WHY? Why would anyone spend all that
time discussing a laughably bad writer who wrote crummy books full of
huge gaping holes? I just don't get it.

Eggplant
   
  Katie writes: I feel that many people on this list are really only interested in tearing the books apart and deriding JKR. The books are not perfect - no book is. No plot is perfect, no writer without weaknesses. However, I really don't understand devoting time and effort thinking about and writing about a writer/book you don't actually like. 
   
  I could read Potter books everyday, and I think JKR's plotting is pretty incredible. I admit that her handling of teen romance is fairly awkward, but I would rather talk about the books' strengths than the weaknesses. I would rather discuss plot theories than talk about why JKR's writing is substandard. I guess, in short, I agree with Eggplant, but felt the need to add that lupinlore is NOT the only person on this list who seems to hate the books and think JKR is a hack. 
   
  Not being one of those people, and loving JKR, Harry and the lot, Katie
   
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