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

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 162498

lupinlore <rdoliver30 at yahoo.com> wrote:          --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Lambert <anigrrrl2 at ...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 

>Lupinlore responds: 
  >Not a hack, perhaps. But she is certainly trying to sell certain 
messages, and her sales pitch is often dismal.

<large snip>

As for mulching the books -- absolutely. My hard-earned money 
plopped down for them gives me the absolute right to do anything I 
want to with them if I find them to be garbage and decide they are 
worthy of it -- including using them for toilet paper if I so desire 
(although that would be an expensive bout of diarrhea). 
  <another LARGE snip>
Lupinlore

>>>>KATIE: So, again...WHY do you read the books? I agree that you have the right to say anything you like about them, but I really wonder why you would waste your own time. I have picked up many a book that other people adore, and read a few lines and decided that's not the book for me. So I just find another that I actually enjoy. 
  I, personally, hate to read bad writing, being a writer myself. I write mainly history, not fiction, but bad writing is bad writing, and Potter books are not poorly written. 
  I think one thing that overly critical people tend to miss is the overall picture. When you spend your time agonizing over little details, you miss the larger picture that the book, or books, presents. JKR has managed, over the course of thousands of pages, to maintain an intricate plot, build characters believably, introduce new storylines, and still not stray too far from her original plot. I think that is an amazing feat for any writer. So, she has some inconsistencies, she occasionally has a weaker section...but those do not take away from the whole, which is a brilliant accomplishment. I think. 
  So, of course, you are free to criticise the books any which way you choose...I wasn't arguing that point. I was wondering why you would waste your time reading books you don't like? 
  Love, Peace, and Potter, Katie 


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