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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Marcus on December 16, 2007, 02:36:22 am
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Just when you couldn't get enough of the world's richest woman, JK Rowling has created 6 books based off the little tales and shit that are told in the Deathly Hallows; one of them being The Tales of Beetle the Bard which was sold to Amazon for 1.9 million euro (about 4 million USD). It was "handwritten" (terribly I might add) in an obnoxious blue pen complete with little crappy doodles and it's hard bound in cheap leather with paste on decorations. Amazon calls it beautiful! A stunning work of art! I call it "Retarded obsession; what a waste of cash."
On a positive note, the article said she donated the money to a children's foundation. The cynic in me says "How much of that money was donated?" while the optimist in me says "Well, 1% of 4 million is still A LOT of money..."
Regardless, how do you feel about "fame" in general and what people deem as "objects worth ridiculous amounts of currency?" If Harry Potter had never existed and one of us created the same book we'd might be able to hock it for a buck from the retarded kid down the street. Everyone is entitled to do with their money however they please but a part deep inside finds it to be a gross misappropriation of funds to waste it on something so... minuscule!
LINK: lol klik here (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_6059972_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000179911&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-0&pf_rd_r=01NEP8VBPM36F2X75RCG&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=340739801&pf_rd_i=507846)
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wow she has pretty bad handwriting
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i personally think it would be thrilling to own such a piece of harry potter history. these tales are actually referred to in the final harry potter book which means while you are reading it, it is almost as if you are in the world of magic and wonder itself. just imagine, you might as well be a muggle who has stumbled upon something you were never supposed to see! or perhaps a wizard who didn't know it yet...
ooowowowo i hope the person who bought it is actually related to me and then dies and i get inheritance!!! j/k that's sick
"handwritten" (terribly I might add)
hey fuck you mutherfucker where do you get off. some of us might like her handwriting, and might kind of get excited at knowing we are looking at actual ink from jk rowlings own hands! the same hands which wrote the harry potter series. SAME HANDS. if you don't get that then well i guess you just don't get harry potter.
i mean i'm not like obsessed or something it's just harry potter is a pretty important part of world culture by now you can't argue with that
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Haha, they even have a little video showing it off like it's the fucking Gutenberg Bible
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How Charming :)
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oh wait its written by her OWN HANDS??? the SAME HANDS that wrote harry potter?
sorry i didnt realise it was written by the SAME HANDS. dont think i don't "get" harry potter i do!!
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those hands that write such wonder.s..... i wish i could caress them....
day and nighgt...
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i'm sure he probably didn't mean what he said or at least didn't think it through i mean i guess an apology would probably redeem him. not that i'm suggesting it, i'm just saying it prolly would.
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She should have written it on napkins...
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hey fuck you mutherfucker where do you get off. some of us might like her handwriting, and might kind of get excited at knowing we are looking at actual ink from jk rowlings own hands! the same hands which wrote the harry potter series. SAME HANDS. if you don't get that then well i guess you just don't get harry potter.
This is probably the most disgusting paragraph ever btw.
SOME OF US MIGHT LIKE HER HANDWRITING WHERE DO YOU GET OFF DISLIKING IT
She's no one special, just someone who writes books that SOME people like.
PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
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i'm sure he probably didn't mean what he said or at least didn't think it through i mean i guess an apology would probably redeem him. not that i'm suggesting it, i'm just saying it prolly would.
i dont think any amount of apology would make up for insulting saint rowling
this goes for you too myke
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jamicus: Not enough misspelled words and LOLZ for people to recognize your post as sarcasm, buddy!
on topic: Dumbledore is gay... i wonder who else is a fag in the harry potter universe?
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I saw this and I had hard time reading some words there X_X
I like the cover though.
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This is probably the most disgusting paragraph ever btw.
SOME OF US MIGHT LIKE HER HANDWRITING WHERE DO YOU GET OFF DISLIKING IT
She's no one special, just someone who writes books that SOME people like.
PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
heh SOME people? kid, i think you'll find harry potter is a multi-billion dollar franchise. the definition of SOME is more like uh the amount of people who listen to your shitty band or whatever. harry potter is an institution in itself.
edit: wait i just checked wikipedia.org and it turns out:
As of April 2007, the first six books in the seven book series have sold more than 325 million copies[3] and have been translated into more than 64 languages.
i guess your right only 325 million people for six books? pfft. hey unless the seventh book keeps selling another billion copies i guess jk rowling is just someone who writes books that SOME people like.
lmao.
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heh SOME people? kid, i think you'll find harry potter is a multi-billion dollar franchise. the definition of SOME is more like uh the amount of people who listen to your shitty band or whatever. harry potter is an institution in itself.
Oh man I wish you hadn't been joking :(
Uh, even if MILLIONS of people like her books that is still just SOME people. It will always be SOME people until EVERYONE likes them.
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Well now, there's "like" and then there's "obsession".
$6 million plus for one of those is not like.
It's obsession.
Obsession over a not terrible but quite frankly not as amazing as the legions of shrieking fans, bandwagon-jumpers, and Harry/Draco slash writers would like you to believe.
It's the same with people like Stephen King, where their "literature" has been so elevated that they can smear their vomit on a hankie and sell it to the willing masses.
....Not that I'm cynical today or anything.
....How did I end up skipping lines with each sentence there?
Odd.
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This is probably the most disgusting paragraph ever btw.
SOME OF US MIGHT LIKE HER HANDWRITING WHERE DO YOU GET OFF DISLIKING IT
She's no one special, just someone who writes books that SOME people like.
PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
SOME.
I see you later said JAMICUS HEH ITS SOME UNTIL EVERYONE LIKES IT what's wrong with you. he's talking about a really large subsection of the population. it's a big deal to these people to have something she wrote by hand, I'm kind of amazed you don't realize this.
and it's not like it's as bad as the people bidding on used condoms from John Travolta's trash or something, this is a direct product of handwriting. it's a rare edition of her work.
fuck I don't like J. K. Rowling at all but are you and Jester seriously arguing that a handwritten first edition of the only version of a vastly popular author's work is some kind of overreaction? what's wrong with you?
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no one special just 1 of the richest women in the world
I see that happen all the time
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The doodles don't look too bad... Well, some of them look good, and some look like something you'd find at the bottom of a year two's bag... The writing isn't very good, could be hard to read for some people, but it does give them impression of a book written by an author from the "Magical" world, writing it with plain ink on parchment. But, being a Harry Potter fan myself, I don't think it has any horrible traits. It gives a kind of authentic feel, but I do think it is a bit of an overprice on a simple book like that, which could be just as easily be printed and sold worldwide for 50 times less...
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Thats retarded. As if JK Rowling didn't have enough money as it is, she just had to shit out another.
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It gives a kind of authentic feel, but I do think it is a bit of an overprice on a simple book like that, which could be just as easily be printed and sold worldwide for 50 times less...
She'd probably make 10x the cash if she did write books based in the Harry Potter universe that expanded the world. George Lucas did this with Star Wars (allow other people to write their own canon Star Wars fiction) and it fleshed out the SW universe more than anything Lucas could have spit out.
I just don't see Rowling doing this, though. Harry Potter is her cash cow... I mean baby.
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You do have a good point there...
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PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
hahahahahaha
I can't believe she didn't use fucking BLACK ink. Like, it attempts to be dollied up by leather and uncut pages (or whatever the fuck) but I can't look at anything in blue ball-point ink and think anything other than "rough draft".
Seriously, the only thing I see when I look at those images is the blue ink. Not the fact that it's a unique copy of something (or whatever) or that a billionaire wrote it, just the blue ink.
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Well, her handwriting is still better than mine so I can’t exactly comment on that.
I'm not really a fan of Harry Potter either, although I once dated a girl who waited hours in the rain to get one of the books.
If she did donate a large amount to charity then I can't really fault her, but I suppose it depends on how much of that money actually went to charity, it doesn’t give a specific amount which is quite suspicious.
If I were a greedy celebrity and wanted to make some more money, I would probably branch out further on something that already had a cult following, I mean who wouldn’t?
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It's not like she's the lord. She basically RIPPED OFF the "Worst Witch" series. It is almost the exact same. Don't get me wrong, I do believe she is very creative, but it's not like this little book is the relic of a saint or anything.
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How much does this book cost, anyways?
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How much does this book cost, anyways?
There's only 6 of them (and I believe each of them is unique I.E. different) and they were sold at an auction. It's only worth as much as a person is willing to pay... obviously 4 million bux.
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SOME.
I see you later said JAMICUS HEH ITS SOME UNTIL EVERYONE LIKES IT what's wrong with you. he's talking about a really large subsection of the population. it's a big deal to these people to have something she wrote by hand, I'm kind of amazed you don't realize this.
and it's not like it's as bad as the people bidding on used condoms from John Travolta's trash or something, this is a direct product of handwriting. it's a rare edition of her work.
fuck I don't like J. K. Rowling at all but are you and Jester seriously arguing that a handwritten first edition of the only version of a vastly popular author's work is some kind of overreaction? what's wrong with you?
It is an over reaction. Nothing short of like a BUILDING or a TANK should be worth 4 million dollars.
Besides, my argument was just that jamicus is fucking insane and I was fighting his ridiculousness with my own.
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I have never seen such dramatic shots of a book before in my life. I guess it is pretty cool, but I don't really care about Harry Potter at all. I guess good for the folks that have something more to read now. As for her "horrible handwriting" it looks very similar to my handwriting.
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That is pretty awesome. I'd buy it if I didn't think it would be a horrible read.
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I understand that people don't like Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling, but a lot of you are being ridiculous assholes.
It's not like she's doing this because she felt like she had holes in her pockets. All of the proceeds are going to "Children's Voice," some campaign to help institutionalized children run by a charity called "Children's High Level Group."
edit: Jesus, it's in the first paragraph of the fucking article, yet no one noticed.....
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edit: Jesus, it's in the first paragraph of the fucking article, yet no one noticed.....
dur...
On a positive note, the article said she donated the money to a children's foundation. The cynic in me says "How much of that money was donated?" while the optimist in me says "Well, 1% of 4 million is still A LOT of money..."
it was in my second paragraph yet u didnt notice. also
If she did donate a large amount to charity then I can't really fault her,
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Donated the money means she donated it all.
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I hope that my writing is one day famous enough that I can pull stunts like this.
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Until my book becomes this popular and I can pull stunts like this and suddenly stating that a character is gay without noting it within my chapters... this sucks. WHEN my book gets that popular---then it's ok, because I'll be eating steak dinners. :D
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I would not pay this much for something like that, as I'm not really a fan of Harry Potter or an avid reader at all, but all the funds from the auction are going to charity, so it can't be that bad, right?
"True story: I woke up vibrating one day. Turns out I was in a Sharper Image. Turns out I had a hard on. Turns out...no one cared." (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=66596.0)
(this post has been redeemed, see this (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=66596.0) topic for more info!)
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I think this news is over 3-4 months old, still deserves a topic though.
imo she selling a dressed up doodle-diary with value increased by her popularity. I laughed at the sacred white gloves delicately handling the religious rowling tome
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yeah, uh, we aren't allowed to post if we think this is ridiculous anymore? suddenly that makes us ASSHOLES?
like, even people i am a fan of, i cant imagine going totally apeship like jamicus did if they HAND WRIT A BOOK (WITH THEIR OWN HANDS)
i couldnt care less about the book seeing as she donated the money to charity (re: my first post in this topic), i just found jamicus' response hilarious. IT WAS MADE WITH HER OWN HANDS!!
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Who cares?
I mean, it's going to a good cause but everyone's up in arms because they dont like the idea of someone who's rich doing something because it's murderin cultures or whatever.
Hats off to her, I say.
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jesus christ, jamicus was joking so of course it was hilarious. That's why he's such a terrific guy.
So blame him if he didn't misspell enough words and lulz, as ABM said.
You angsty guys blame it on Rowling for shitting a book making 4 millions.
Buddy, don't you wish you could that? If you could, wouldn't you? Or is it pride and honor that stops you? Maybe, it is a viable option, I would consider it.
Nevertheless, realize that she just shitted something, but she didn't put a price tag, some ridiculous guy decided to purchase that shit of a book as you may likely call it for 4 million dolla. Blame that guy, tell him hey faggot can't you see what the fuck you're doing, you mentally challenged moron.
Fame does these things, and you can't fault her for taking avantage of her situation. Fame is a social mass illness, that's how your heart beat speeds up when you are about to meet your favourite musician.
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jesus christ, jamicus was joking so of course it was hilarious. That's why he's such a terrific guy.
So blame him if he didn't misspell enough words and lulz, as ABM said.
You angsty guys blame it on Rowling for shitting a book making 4 millions.
Buddy, don't you wish you could that? If you could, wouldn't you? Or is it pride and honor that stops you? Maybe, it is a viable option, I would consider it.
Nevertheless, realize that she just shitted something, but she didn't put a price tag, some ridiculous guy decided to purchase that shit of a book as you may likely call it for 4 million dolla. Blame that guy, tell him hey faggot can't you see what the fuck you're doing, you mentally challenged moron.
Fame does these things, and you can't fault her for taking avantage of her situation. Fame is a social mass illness, that's how your heart beat speeds up when you are about to meet your favourite musician.
i dont think anyone was.. who are you even talking to? i mocked her handwriting and then jamicus' posts. marcus mocked her handwriting, amazon and the fact that we live in a culture where shitty handwritten books with doodles sell for millions. sarah was mocking jamicus' posts. no one was saying jk herself was an idiot for doing this.
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PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
i can't read this without laughing
Nevertheless, realize that she just shitted something, but she didn't put a price tag, some ridiculous guy decided to purchase that shit of a book as you may likely call it for 4 million dolla. Blame that guy, tell him hey faggot can't you see what the fuck you're doing, you mentally challenged moron.
It's kind of hard to blame the guy when the guy is AMAZON. Not that Amazon is THE SAVIOR AND CANNOT BE QUESTIONED, what I mean is that it's way easier to blame an actual person. I can't really blame Rowling for this, but I can say that this book looks like absolute shit and isn't worth 4 million. 4 million for a book that's written in blue ink with a 12 year old emo kid's drawings all around it (BLEEDING HEARTS AND SKULLS WITH SIMPLE CROSS HATCHING FROM TEXTBOOKS) and that exact same kid's scribbled handwriting, wrapped in dumb looking leather with a skull on the front to make it look like it's something special...ughhhhh.
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PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus
i can't read this without laughing
Nevertheless, realize that she just shitted something, but she didn't put a price tag, some ridiculous guy decided to purchase that shit of a book as you may likely call it for 4 million dolla. Blame that guy, tell him hey faggot can't you see what the fuck you're doing, you mentally challenged moron.
It's kind of hard to blame the guy when the guy is AMAZON. Not that Amazon is THE SAVIOR AND CANNOT BE QUESTIONED, what I mean is that it's way easier to blame an actual person. I can't really blame Rowling for this, but I can say that this book looks like absolute shit and isn't worth 4 million. 4 million for a book that's written in blue ink with a 12 year old emo kid's drawings all around it (BLEEDING HEARTS AND SKULLS WITH SIMPLE CROSS HATCHING FROM TEXTBOOKS) and that exact same kid's scribbled handwriting, wrapped in dumb looking leather with a skull on the front to make it look like it's something special...ughhhhh.
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Donated the money means she donated it all.
loaded words. I could tell you right now I donate to charity. What you wouldn't know is I only donate a penny a year but I still donate so that means I'm a good guy, right?
Buddy, don't you wish you could that? If you could, wouldn't you? Or is it pride and honor that stops you? Maybe, it is a viable option, I would consider it.
Fuck yeah I'm jealous. If I could gift wrap my own feces and make more money off of it than 70% of the world's population makes in their lifetimes I'd be fucking happy. Coming from a guy who would go to jail for selling gift wrapped feces, I'm pissed off and I think it's a retarded waste.
but she didn't put a price tag, some ridiculous guy decided to purchase that shit of a book as you may likely call it for 4 million dolla. Blame that guy, tell him hey faggot can't you see what the fuck you're doing, you mentally challenged moron.
Fame does these things, and you can't fault her for taking avantage of her situation. Fame is a social mass illness, that's how your heart beat speeds up when you are about to meet your favourite musician.
While I agree with this statement, all auctions have a set price. I highly doubt Rowling (or more likely her agents/jewish money advisors) put a base price of 2.5 euros followed by Mr. Amazon going "FUR MILLION DOLLARZ!!"
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Thats retarded. As if JK Rowling didn't have enough money as it is, she just had to shit out another.
Yeah man, fuck authors writing more books. They should just stick to having one.
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Oh, I misread the topic. I thought this was just a new book she had released.
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haha I didn't read that part..
retarded amazon
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It's kind of hard to blame the guy when the guy is AMAZON. Not that Amazon is THE SAVIOR AND CANNOT BE QUESTIONED, what I mean is that it's way easier to blame an actual person. I can't really blame Rowling for this, but I can say that this book looks like absolute shit and isn't worth 4 million. 4 million for a book that's written in blue ink with a 12 year old emo kid's drawings all around it (BLEEDING HEARTS AND SKULLS WITH SIMPLE CROSS HATCHING FROM TEXTBOOKS) and that exact same kid's scribbled handwriting, wrapped in dumb looking leather with a skull on the front to make it look like it's something special...ughhhhh.
ffff that's not what this is at all.
we are talking the handwritten, first edition, ONLY edition (as in, outside of lost books, it is impossible to get more rare) of a book by the most popular author of our time, and everyone thinks it WONT be worth four million dollars?
do you people know how book collecting works? fucking companies buy books all the damn time, because private collectors can rarely muster up the funds necessary to get and maintain the book.
as much as you might like to say "heh whats the big deal", it is still a big deal. if you have an issue with a book being sold for four million dollars, have an issue with the fact that it's a children's author who isn't that great selling a book for four million, not that the book offends your aesthetics.
*picks up chamber pot with rare da vinci sketch on the side* "feh.....who needs a pot full of shit with a child's doodle???" *throws it into the fire*
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I agree with Sredni. Whether most of you like Harry Potter or not it's still a phenomenon and I'm not exactly shocked that it would go for a high price for a one-of-a-kind edition book.
Four MILLION is a ridiculous price ok, but that's not so much their fault but the fault of the retard that agreed to pay it.
I'd personally love to own that, though it's obviously never going to happen nor would I pay really any substantial money for a book!
But my favourite part of all of this, at the end, is the guy's white gloves in the photo and the protective glass casing and security ropes. You'd think it's the fucking Crown Jewels.
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I agree with Sredni. Whether most of you like Harry Potter or not it's still a phenomenon and I'm not exactly shocked that it would go for a high price for a one-of-a-kind edition book.
Four MILLION is a ridiculous price ok, but that's not so much their fault but the fault of the retard that agreed to pay it.
I'd personally love to own that, though it's obviously never going to happen nor would I pay really any substantial money for a book!
But my favourite part of all of this, at the end, is the guy's white gloves in the photo and the protective glass casing and security ropes. You'd think it's the fucking Crown Jewels.
Do you know how much these books is going to be worth in 100 years? That's going to be a lot more than they bought them for.
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Yeah, I'm going with Sredni and some others who don't really find this surprising. I actually like the little book, shame she didn't use a fountain pen it didn't look like. I love the art of book-binding though so its pretty exciting to see something like this where this was made to feel real. But yeah, shes huge for our time and this is a nice little work of art. Though I think there are a lot of you who don't seem to like art.
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yeah go Sredni whoooo
also hahahaha medieve just pulled the old "pffftttt.... you don't know ART" trick. never fails to piss people off. I imagine this topic will go to "shit" now.
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yeah gj medieve that line basically killed the topic
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Her handwriting looks well above average clarity wise...
Rigid cursive isn't taught in this country you know.
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And fucking feel free to fill us all in on what the BIG DEAL about her doing this is when you work it out.
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Do you know how much these books is going to be worth in 100 years? That's going to be a lot more than they bought them for.
I'd much rather live in a future where people understand that this fucking book series isn't amazing enough to be concidered a major part of history.
Unfortunatley I don't have control over such things. I'm just glad that I'm level headed enough that in 50 years when I see the Harry Potter book series in the fucking literature section, instead of blowing my brains out, I can just laugh at the fact that now it's a peice of literature, noone will want to read it anymore.
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So how much did the rarest of Pokemon cards sell for?
Or the rarest of stamps, for that matter? (although this may be more on the classy side)
Some ONE EDITION thing that U2 did? (didn't I hear about a U2 Ipod with the bands signatures selling for a ridiculous amount?)
I'm not a fan of JK Rowling but I don't find this very hard to imagine, and I think she's doing a great thing. If I was rich and someone put that up for auction, and my kids were Harry Potters fans (and maybe JK Rowling fans as well, since most are) I'd probably bid for that just to give my kids a modern, unique artifact. Sure, pretentious, but she is nevertheless the most popular childrens books author alive these days, and her work is definite quality even to pretentious snobs that only get off from works you have to read backwards in order to even get clues of what the story is about.
Collectables that base themselves on cultural phenomenas are worth a lot of money, even if it was made for that sole reason; to be worth a lot. I'm not surprised, and I think this is a great thing. If only more important cultural figures could go around and do something similar...
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heh, typical. thanks a lot jk SCOWLING
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that book looks really cool actually. i wouldn't pay 4 MILLION DOLLARS FOR IT because i am not gay for rowling but i can easily imagine someone doing it!
how much did William Shatner's kidney stone sell for? this is much better than that imo as it's an actual book (though it probably hasn't passed through jk's genital)
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the topic title made me think that rowling dumped shit inside a book and sold it for 4 millions. With shit i mean real shit, just to clarify.
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Hey, what the fuck ever, right? While 4 million dollars is a shitfuck of money, it's cool just seeing something like this happen. Harry Potter is ridiculously popular, and literature in itself is still incredibly powerful. Even in this day and age, the power of a book alone is awe inspiring. Can't fault the woman for capitalizing on it.JK Rowling writes a book, someone else gets it, and unfortunate kids get the money.
Everyone wins.
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the topic title made me think that rowling dumped shit inside a book and sold it for 4 millions. With shit i mean real shit, just to clarify.
give it a few more years and it'll happen. rowling will probably be heralded as the most avant garde writer of this century.
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hahahahahaha
I can't believe she didn't use fucking BLACK ink. but I can't look at anything in blue ball-point ink and think anything other than "rough draft".
Seriously, the only thing I see when I look at those images is the blue ink. Not the fact that it's a unique copy of something (or whatever) or that a billionaire wrote it, just the blue ink.
back in school, we used to use blue ballpens. Some people used black, but blue was going around the most. I dont see anything weird about it.
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back in school, we used to use blue ballpens. Some people used black, but blue was going around the most. I dont see anything weird about it.
It looks sort of... well, shitty.
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the topic title made me think that rowling dumped shit inside a book and sold it for 4 millions. With shit i mean real shit, just to clarify.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing...
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Though I think there are a lot of you who don't seem to like art.
I feel the need to quote this.
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My the first page is confusing. Did Myke genuinely not get that Jamicus was joking or was there an iota of truth in there somewhere?
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I hope that my writing is one day famous enough that I can pull stunts like this.
This was what I found most interesting about the news as well. It's krazy how certain celebrities can just manipulate, essentially, their own demand by selling pieces of their lives. Rowling gets considerable credence for going through the trouble of writing seven entire copies by hand, but man I'd abuse that little perk in a flash.
Also Mark big deal in what sense? I think Sredni worded it pretty well.
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I like how the dude needs white gloves to handle the book. Is this because the book is a precious ornament or because he's afraid of shitting up his hands???
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My the first page is confusing. Did Myke genuinely not get that Jamicus was joking or was there an iota of truth in there somewhere?
Several of us didn't get it until his second post (we were discussing it on IRC).
Mostly because everything Jamicus posts is ridiculous and I wouldn't doubt for a second that he actually meant that.
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you know she donated all 4 million to charity.
does it really matter how ugh... awful..... she is as a writer/how terrible the book is? if she can do shit like this and raise millions for charity then by all means let her do it.
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No you simply don't get it, this makes her a terrible person.
A terrible person who's a shit writer.
A terrible shit writer person with a cunt like a wizard's sleeve.
That's what this makes her. Right?
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you know she donated all 4 million to charity.
source or it didn't happen
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Mostly because everything Jamicus posts is ridiculous and I wouldn't doubt for a second that he actually meant that.
no i don't think so.
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source or it didn't happen
Your link is the source.
It says she "donated the proceeds", and since "the proceeds" = 1.35 whatever million euros, she legally donated it all.
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She wrote 7 copies of a 150 page book by hand.... and gave 6 away... and sold one for 1.4m euros... donating it to charity.
Content of her books aside... how can you not respect that?
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you guys don't understand.... its Harry Potter. whats gayer then that???
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7142656.stm
All the proceeds of the auction in London are being donated to Rowling's charity Children's Voice.
All the proceeds of the auction in London are being donated to Rowling's charity Children's Voice.
All the proceeds
All the proceeds
All the proceeds
All the proceeds
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JK Rowling has donated to many many more charities in the past before this. I really don't think that she would have donate millions of dollars if she was really worried about her fiscal situation. Jesus Christ is this topic a joke or are you really that fucking cynical?
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the topic isn't the children that benefited from this sale but the fact that people who like harry potter are retarded.
please stay on topic.
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When did you turn out to be such a gigantic arsehole anyway
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Let me guess, internet serious business :rolleyes:
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I was going to post something about the subject at hand but fuck this topic is sad.
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uh... it's the time of the month!
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Oh my god, some of these post made me laugh out loud!
"PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus"
"Fuck yeah I'm jealous. If I could gift wrap my own feces and make more money off of it than 70% of the world's population makes in their lifetimes I'd be fucking happy"
"i wouldn't pay 4 MILLION DOLLARS FOR IT because i am not gay for rowling"
"the topic title made me think that rowling dumped shit inside a book and sold it for 4 millions. With shit i mean real shit, just to clarify."
"you guys don't understand.... its Harry Potter. whats gayer then that???"
"the topic isn't the children that benefited from this sale but the fact that people who like harry potter are retarded.
please stay on topic."
No really though what makes this different from the Author that wrote Beowulf? I mean its been regarded as an important book for literature's History, why won't this fictional story also be one of those? Perhaps the writting is not as good? I dunno, I never read harry potter.
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I mean its been regarded as an important book for literature's History, why won't this fictional story also be one of those?
Wowowowow, hold your guns, give it some perspective for christ's sake.
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the topic isn't the children that benefited from this sale but the fact that people who like harry potter are retarded.
please stay on topic.
people who like harry potter are retarded because amazon donated $4m to charity??
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people who like harry potter are retarded because amazon donated $4m to charity??
nonono You got it backwards.
Amazon donated $4m to charity because people who like harry potter are retarded.
Just because a good thing resulted from them being retarded doesn't change the fact that they are retarded.
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yea...... what retards for liking a wildly popular book series... lmao fools. read real literature
*grabs his copy of Ulysses and heads to the nearest coffee shop*
ps when did marcus become such a shit poster or has he always been like this
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i read the first four harry potter books in english when i was 11 years old. keep in mind english is my second language
this is how retarded those books are
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yea...... what retards for liking a wildly popular book series... lmao fools. read real literature
*grabs his copy of Ulysses and heads to the nearest coffee shop*
ps when did marcus become such a shit poster or has he always been like this
yeah reading joyce just isnt as great unless everyone sees you while you're doing it
also thank you marmot <3
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I don't think 90% of the posters here really know what the fuck is going on.
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back in school, we used to use blue ballpens. Some people used black, but blue was going around the most. I dont see anything weird about it.
That's exactly my point, man, blue ballpoint ink looks like it was written by some highschooler while she should have been listening to Mr. Humbolt talk about the execution of Louis Riel or some such shit. The fact that it has lots of doodles and shit in it seconds this view! I am not saying anything about the rarity or anything, just that it looks like a piece of shit.
Also, Lars raised an interesting point about shit selling for way too much. I mean, look at some things signed by every member of a popular band or sports team, that can sell for millions as well. This is an entire book. I mean, if JK Rowling sold a complete set of hardcover Harry Potter books and DVDs, all signed (which would take, what, thirty seconds?) they would probably sell for a couple tens of thousands at least through auction.
I think we should stop making fun of Harry Potter and begin instead making fun of Eragon for being really bad. Hopefully his can regalvanize the GW community.