Rowling is not "A Great "Literature" writer of our time"

I really don't understand how she is a great "literature" writer.

Her books have been incredibly successful, but this is not due to her writing prowess, she is telling a good story, but not particualarly well.

Literature is supposed to change the way people see things, live their lives or just affect their mentality. JK Rowling does none of these things, she is an excuse of a writer, and the fact that she welcomes these titles are an insult to true writers.

She is a commercial writer. Any literature academic has already described her as thus, and using her clumsy tact, she has released the "fact" that Dumbledore is gay. She thinks that by making up some story about what ehr work means she can be classed as an author that changed peoples views on homosexuality etc. This is a desperate act from a woman who has realised that to the average reader she is a great writer, but to anyone with any knowledge on literature, she is just a commercial, kids author. If anything it has put a nail in her coffin, no literary writer just releases information about what they were saying, they leave it open to reader interperetation.

I have had enough of people saying Harry Potter is literature, and enough of people saying she is a great writer - (if by great writer they mean someone who ahs changed peoples lives, challenged society, made a difference other than a bedtime story.

JK rowling is a bad writer!

 

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She writes great trash!

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exactly, I've had enough of people on this forum, in the world being smitten with her shit.

 

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Shit is shit but she writes trash, a little different than shit though because it doesn't smell as bad.

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How is what she wrote any different than The Iliad or The Odyssey? Its great storytelling! Stories unite people, give them common ground.
And all writer's who want to eat and make a living, are commercial writers. Otherwise they can write in their diary.

 

the smell is debatable tbh

 

Sorry let me replace commercial with sell out.
People Like JD Salinger, that wrote with purpose to show the reader things about society and life, not just to make the reader want to turn the next page.

the only positive of harry potter is that it encourages young reading,

 

Sure, it's a guilty pleasure, like Clancy, Crichton, or King, so what. It captivated many young people who had previously not been interested in reading. She can say what she likes about her fictional characters.

 

I'm not saying her writins is having a negative effect on anyone, I'm arguing with the statement that she is a "great "literature" writer of our time"

 

Yeah, I read perhaps the first two books and lost interest, they are all the same.

 

She made children read real books again.

That would classify her as the ultimate writer.

 

Children have been reading books before SHE came along. It is just thay she

got all the hype and the other writers didn't.

 

More writers than Rowling have made kids read books.

Real books? If you eman literature I'm going to stuff your trousers with a nail bomb

 

No, it has been shown that she actually made a tremendous amount of children read proper books again.

 

This does not make her a LITERATURE writer.

 

L-i-t-e-r-a-t-u-r-e

 

Did she buy them books? Did she teach them to read? No, they already

knew how to read before they ever bought her books because they were

taught how to read other children's books before she was even known all

that well. If kids couldn't read and then by some miracle they were made to

read with only her books then that would be different.

 

knowing how to read doesn't mean you read books.

 

Her first book was the first book my little brother read completely through all by himself. Then he spent his own allowance to get the rest of them. Then he started reading other things too.

Before that, he didn't care too much about reading.

 

So that means that he read other things BEFORE reading her work. That's all

I wanted to get across.