JK Rowling shits in a book: makes 4 million dollars

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Jester

#41 December 16, 2007, 12:39:48 pm

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Quote from: Shepperd on December 16, 2007, 12:31:17 pm

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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#42 December 16, 2007, 02:12:27 pm

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PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus

i can't read this without laughing

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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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#43 December 16, 2007, 02:15:53 pm

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PS it's not INK FROM HER HANDS she's not an octopus

i can't read this without laughing

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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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#44 December 16, 2007, 02:27:13 pm

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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?

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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.

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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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#45 December 16, 2007, 02:28:47 pm

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Quote from: DeltaHybrid on December 16, 2007, 06:01:12 am

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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#46 December 16, 2007, 02:33:59 pm

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Oh, I misread the topic. I thought this was just a new book she had released.

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#47 December 16, 2007, 03:17:48 pm

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haha I didn't read that part..
retarded amazon

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#48 December 16, 2007, 03:32:23 pm

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Quote from: Velfarre on December 16, 2007, 02:15:53 pm

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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#49 December 16, 2007, 03:37:17 pm

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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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#50 December 16, 2007, 04:08:58 pm

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Quote from: Moriason on December 16, 2007, 03:37:17 pm

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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#51 December 16, 2007, 05:11:57 pm

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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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#52 December 16, 2007, 05:39:12 pm

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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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#53 December 16, 2007, 06:39:54 pm

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yeah gj medieve that line basically killed the topic

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#54 December 16, 2007, 06:45:46 pm

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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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#55 December 16, 2007, 07:38:26 pm

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Quote from: Camlon on December 16, 2007, 04:08:58 pm

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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#56 December 16, 2007, 09:57:51 pm

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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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#57 December 16, 2007, 10:20:05 pm

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heh, typical. thanks a lot jk SCOWLING

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#58 December 16, 2007, 10:30:33 pm

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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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#59 December 16, 2007, 10:33:52 pm

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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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#60 December 16, 2007, 10:34:16 pm

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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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