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Terry Pratchett  
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.harry-potter, alt.fan.pratchett
From: Terry Pratchett <tpratch...@unseen.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:21:51 +0100
Local: Wed, Aug 3 2005 4:21 am
Subject: Re: Pratchett comments on Rowling
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In message <XQRHe.30416$bp.8441@fed1read03>, Tim Behrendsen
<t...@zapthisbehrendsen.com> writes

>"

>Is that the whole basis for this? You think she has denied writing
>fantasy novels? Let's review the quote again:

Oh dear.

The first book was, it seemed to me, packed full of everything that's
come to be thought of as representing 'fantasy'.  Not just a hint here
and there, mark you.  Now I might not be a fan of, Westerns,but if I
found my book contained six-guns, DodgeCity and man called Mexican Pete,
I think I'd spot something going on.  JKR has hitherto given JRRT and
Lewis as her influences; others have I think wondered here why they
appear not to  be so now, but anyone can change their mind, I'm sure.
I'm surprised  she didn't spot that she was writing possibly the pure
quill of a certain type of fantasy. Or perhaps I'm was wrong  and a few
questions from the interviewer might have sorted everything out.

No, it's not what *all* this was about.  Grossman's airy dismissal of
the genre hitherto, to suggest  that JKR had brought fresh air where all
had hitherto been fusty, was my prime reason for the letter.

--
Terry Pratchett


 
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