Quote: Griff @ August 15 2008, 12:13 PM BST

1953. A mere 40-plus years before Harry Potter. But still, it can't be a coincidence, and it'd be nice if she admitted it.

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Were there not a number of similar coincidences in her writing?
 

Quote: Griff @ August 15 2008, 12:16 PM BST

Top of this chain, of course, is Brian Sewell. There can surely be nobody who looks down on him as a bit below-stairs.

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His mother thinks he's frightfully tacky because he writes! She tells her friends that he was adopted as a child and 'trades' genes will out.
 

Quote: Marc P @ August 15 2008, 12:18 PM BST

I always assumed she had nicked the name from me, I'd better call back the lawyers.

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I shouldn't - Warner Bros are optioning anything that could result in a libel case.
 

Quote: Timbo @ August 15 2008, 12:13 PM BST

The burden of responsibility is the argument always used to justify privilege.

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No justification was being offered. Just an alternative viewpoint.
 

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Quote: Timbo @ August 15 2008, 12:21 PM BST

I shouldn't - Warner Bros are optioning anything that could result in a libel case.

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Cool, now where is that bloody thing. Originally sold to a division attached to Bertelsmann who own Random House who I have some dealings with.

Now where is it????
 

Quote: Marc P @ August 15 2008, 12:07 PM BST

I am sure this isn't off topic, but what do you make of 'The Thief Lord' and Inkheart' by your own Cornelia Funke, Finck.

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Haven't read them (yet?). I read HP by accident (not a fan of the genre) and to improve my English. Would you recommend it? I'm burrowing through the German classics at the moment. After that a children's book could be exactly what I need.
 

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I rather enjoyed Lab Rats

I doubt J.K. knew that 'muggles' was Jazz Slang for marijuana. Louis Armstrong recorded "Muggles" in praise.
 

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Well read Das Glasperlenspiel first and Perfume. But if you are not fond of kid's books I wouldn't bother.


 

Quote: Marc P @ August 15 2008, 12:39 PM BST

Well read Das Glasperlenspiel first and Perfume. But if you are not fond of kid's books I wouldn't bother.

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Have already read those (I highly recommend "Lost Property Office" by Siegfried Lenz*). It's not children's books, it's fantasy books that I usually find difficult to relate to (HP being an exception there).

Now we've wandered way off topic (We should probably move to "What are you reading at the moment"?).


* http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/go/e6607001-3048-22ab-57c7b952ff459e33/frl=EN
 

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I tell you a good kid's book, The Magic Pudding.

This thread has gone off topic...
 

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Unpinned as it's gone off-thread.
 

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