Does JK Rowling (Harry Potter author) really exist?

Not according to some Norwegian film director....

Nina Grünfeld wrote:

But can a person be so productive and commercially successful in a media industry where nothing is left to coincidence?

Pure conspiracy theory.

Fortunately I never read or watch Harry Potter craps.

Sheva

hmmmm....

It's weird that her book and not some other D&D type book was promoted so heavily, when she was so unknown. Don't they usually throw money behind well established authors?

That being said I really like the harry potter series and have read the books as well as seen the movies.

All things considered, I'd probably hate harry potter if it was discovered that it was in fact a commercial ploy and she was an actor.

Like those people crossing their arms and cheering at the XBox 360 premier at E3.  They were actors. Not real fans. They were paid to be there and look like they actually liked microsoft.

^^^

Let me get this straight, you're in paris and yet....

your sitting on a computer and posting on internet forums?!?

I could think of a million other things you could be doing in paris......

go out and have some fun.

beer28_tmp wrote:

Like those people crossing their arms and cheering at the XBox 360 premier at E3.  They were actors. Not real fans. They were paid to be there and look like they actually liked microsoft.

IRenderable wrote:

beer28_tmp wrote: Like those people crossing their arms and cheering at the XBox 360 premier at E3.  They were actors. Not real fans. They were paid to be there and look like they actually liked microsoft.

Uhh thats weird, there are lots of people who really want the XBox so why get people to act? Show me a link, I call bullshit.

Guess what beer, lots and lots of people want an XBox and the majority of people don't hate MS, just zealots of other companies.

LaBomba wrote:

^^^

Let me get this straight, you're in paris and yet....

your sitting on a computer and posting on internet forums?!?

I could think of a million other things you could be doing in paris......

go out and have some fun.

beer28_tmp wrote:

IRenderable wrote: beer28_tmp wrote: Like those people crossing their arms and cheering at the XBox 360 premier at E3.  They were actors. Not real fans. They were paid to be there and look like they actually liked microsoft. Uhh thats weird, there are lots of people who really want the XBox so why get people to act? Show me a link, I call bullshit. Guess what beer, lots and lots of people want an XBox and the majority of people don't hate MS, just zealots of other companies.

I'm sorry to burst your naive bubble. It was reported on G4, and they admitted to it.

I think what Beer here is trying to misinform say is that celebrities showed up at the launch: Matthew Perry, Carmen Electra, Justin Timberlake...

Theres a lot of exaggeration there. I don't think she was ever short of paper and wrote on napkins. She just used to write in Cafes as a way of not being stuck in the house all day. Its not as though she wrote six books in poverty and then became a fantastic success, it was only really the first book
Her publishing rate is slowing down from one book a year to one every two or three. I don't think that is super-productive, though she doesn't need to be. With the ammount each book brings in its better for her to take her time and make it a good as possible.

Last thing I heard was that she never lived in poverty, she was just an average run-of-the-mill english woman who had an idea at a café and wrote it down.

Aparently she called him "potter" because opposite the cafe was a garden supplies shop.

Remember "Watership down"? That was authored by an average 1950's "dad" who randomly came up with a story whilst in the car to his children, who suggested he wrote it down and get it published.

These things happen, I'll bet the theorist is just jealous.

Apparently she was living on benefits of £70 a week.

Its a daft story and a half.

For a start, the premise is daft:  the movie industry hatches a plan that they hire a team of writers and script writers to write several very long books aimed at kids, wait till the first two or three become successful and then announce a film deal, all in a time when reading amongst the young is at its lowest?  Yeah, suuuure.

What does annoy me about JK Rowling is that in the mid 90s, I used to go toa coffeehouse in Edinburgh all the time called the Elephant House.  Great coffee.  One thing annoyed me about it.  It was quite close to the University of Edinburgh and was often filled with writers and poets scribbling away.  Lauch raucously at a joke or something and these people would glare at you or even ask you to keep it down.  Pompous twits.  Which coffeehouse did Rowling write Harry Potter in?  Yep, the very same Elephant House.  It'll annoy me if she was one of THEM!

 

Its a daft story and a half.

For a start, the premise is daft:  the movie industry hatches a plan that they hire a team of writers and script writers to write several very long books aimed at kids, wait till the first two or three become successful and then announce a film deal, all in a time when reading amongst the young is at its lowest?  Yeah, suuuure.

I think Harry Potter was actually written by a million monkeys with typewriters.

Hasn't AOL proved the "million monkeys with 1 million typewriters could produce Shakespeare" theory wrong?

Frankie Fresh wrote:

Hasn't AOL proved the "million monkeys with 1 million typewriters could produce Shakespeare" theory wrong?