Terry Pratchett doesn't like JK Rowling

[reveal]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4732385.stm

Jealousy? :\

 

[demiurge1138]

From the sound of things, he sounds more piqued by her disparaging the fantasy genre than jealous. Pratchett has praised J.K. Rowling's writing before; I assume he's bitter about her getting credit for revitalizing a genre she's apparently disdainful of.

Still, the article doesn't have much detail, so it's hard figure out what's really going on.

Demiurge out.

 

[Krug]

Pratchett's reply can be read here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1715263,00.html

 

[Ranger REG]

He's angry about a little comment from Ms. Rowling??? :\

Shrugs.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Its not really a little comment when she gets so much attention. People will just believe her word to be gospel. I don't see any jealousy at all. And, really, I agree with him. Rowling's getting attention more because her books were the right thing at the right time, not because they're the best things ever written. Its not that she's a bad writer, but she shouldn't be seen as some wonderful person who singlehandedly saved the Fantasy genre.

...and I'm also slightly confused as to how she could possibly not think she was writing fantasy.

 

[Ranger REG]

People will just believe her word to be gospel.

Not me.

...and I'm also slightly confused as to how she could possibly not think she was writing fantasy.

Probably the same way Tolkien felt his Lord of the Rings is not a typical fantasy fiction story but a sorely needed mythology for England.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Not me.

I didn't say you. In fact, I wouldn't really put anyone on these boards as that kind of person. However, those that don't have the knowledge of fantasy/etc that we do are much, much more likely to fall into that. I've seen it many, many times in far too many book stores.

Probably the same way Tolkien felt his Lord of the Rings is not a typical fantasy fiction story but a sorely needed mythology for England.

Except that Tolkien is a special case when it comes to anything. His fantasy WASN'T typical at all. Rowling's writings are much less inovative than anything Tolkien did...and I don't see anyway to compare the two. Heck, I can't see anyway to compare Tolkien to anyone else at all.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Or possibly mocking her for pretending that she did not know she was writing fantasy novels... sort of like pretending that you you didn't know you were telling 'knock knock' jokes, despite the fact that you start off with 'knock knock'.

I don't quite buy her bit there either.

The Auld Grump, who will take a new Pratchett over a J. K. Rowling any day of the week, and twice on Sundays... then read the new Rowling.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

The Auld Grump, who will take a new Pratchett over a J. K. Rowling any day of the week, and twice on Sundays... then read the new Rowling.

Bah. I'd drop 'em both for a new Tolkien.

And then read all three anyways

 

[Wayside]

I don't like J. K. Rowling either. She'd better watch herself. I've got the death sentence in 12 systems.

Seriously, she's kidding herself if she thinks she's subverting anything. Potter is the same old cliches distilled to a pallatable consistency. Nothing wrong with liking it, but it's far from revolutionary.