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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grimslade" data-source="post: 2458837" data-attributes="member: 6061">Pratchett vs Rowling Two authors enter: one may leaveThe is a non argument. Rowling is not a fantasy luminary. She is an author who wrote some stories she thought would be interesting to kids. The stories are amazingly popular and Rowling is not much different than she was when she was writing in a coffee shop. She is much richer  but I don't think she has read more fantasy in the intervening years. She seems a bit out of her depth with interviews.   The problem isn't JK Rowling. It's the asinine reporters who only read the sleeves of HP books for their sense of Fantasy. Rowling is a straw man, er, woman. THe press at large thinks Fantasy is a bunch of cliched, fairy stories. Heaven forbid a novel is critically praised and be a fantasy. They immediately reclassify it as literature exploring fantastic elements. It happened most recently with Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell.All this venom for JK Rowling should be pointed at the mainstream press and book reviewers.  A little research and a little broader genre reading would go a long way.Grim</blockquote>