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!

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wow she has pretty bad handwriting

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

Haha, they even have a little video showing it off like it's the fucking Gutenberg Bible

How Charming

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!!

those hands that write such wonder.s..... i wish i could caress them....


day and nighgt...

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.

She should have written it on napkins...

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

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

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?

I saw this and I had hard time reading some words there X_X
I like the cover though.

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.

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.

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?

no one special just 1 of the richest women in the world

I see that happen all the time