Reviewers
have almost certainly slammed J. K. Rowling’s new novel The Casual Vacancy today.
Rowling, the author of a series of children’s books aimed at children, having
finished that series of children’s books aimed at children (and similarly having probably
dared to write something else) is very likely coming under criticism by
journalists who want to have done that too.
The Harry Potter series has long
been criticised by adults for its flaws, most especially concerning the way it
seemed be a series of children’s books written for children. Coming under flak
for being about a child that discovers magic and does magical things in a
children’s book written for children, adults have long been upset about Rowling’s
inclusion of a wizard with a beard. The most common criticism however relies of
the admittedly farcical assertion that in a public school with elves and magic
there is absolutely no mention at all of progressive rock music. This damning
indictment of the series (whilst being only slightly ahead of whining about
there being a villain, that is dark, and uses dark magic, in a series about
children doing magic in a children’s story written for children) has probably
led to adults now complaining that Rowling’s book most likely contains nothing of
the sort.
Maybe in newspapers today J. K.
Rowling has been condemned for her latest novel, not a children’s book written
for children, for thinking she is better than reviewers by writing something
else.
Probably.
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