Thadius said:I still reckon Ronald Dahl was a better writier than JK Rowling :>
Thadius said:I still reckon Ronald Dahl was a better writier than JK Rowling :>
Strega said:Roald Dahl guys, not Ronald
cHodAX said:Ronald Dahl was prolific litterly writing 100's of storys, Rowling found one good marketable idea and milked it to death.
Bugz said:Who doesn't milk a marketable idea to death?
cHodAX said:That is all she has ever done though and frankly she did it on a series of books that is highly overrated. Dahl produced dozens of classic books and short stories, all Rowling seems interested in doing is breaking her word and producing even more Harry Potter books, all to bleed the franchise dry rather than come up with something new. The two are not even in the same league as far as talent goes, Rowling just came up with the right idea at the right time. The test will be what she does after Harry Potter and personally after reading two of them I find her work very overrated, it wouldn't suprise me at all to see her just trade on her name and publish loads of generic crap.
spanxx said:they wrote different styles.
jk rowling is doing a 7 part series following one character in stories involving magic and such.
roald dahl did nursery rhymes with more of an adult tint, there was always something slightly morbid about his work.
overall i prefer roald dahl but he wrote some crap too (james and the giant peach is horrible to read and the movie was even worse.) but some great stories (willy wonka=uber) do sort of make up for it. i grew up on roald dahl lol.
is that the best you could come up with?bult said:How about reading books written for people above the age of ten instead?
heartedly agree one should fill the mind of great philosophers and true pioneersbult said:How about reading books written for people above the age of ten instead?
thats where the death penalty for low grades/IQ come into play.. call it assisted natural selection or smth.Kami said:Dahl's books were perhaps more original but I think JK Rowling deserves credit for making a ton of cash and getting some kids reading again. Lets face is between texting and playing games all day the obese morons can barely spell thier own names properly. Wonder if exam pass rates will be the same in 10 years or even continue to rise :-/
Conchabar said:heartedly agree one should fill the mind of great philosophers and true pioneers
Hawkwind said:Nietze?