So JK Rowling has just published a new novel and it’s causing some reactions! Written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, The Ink Black Heart tells the story of what the fuck I can’t read this, the typeface is too small for my Kindle.
Well, the reviews are in, and reviewers agree that what the fuck I can’t read this, the typeface is too small for my Kindle.
Let’s check out what Amazon customers are saying about the book.
Oops, that typeface is looking pretty small too. Here’s that review is in bigger type:
This book is unreadable on the kindle. Do not waste your money on it. It is quite disappointing that the publisher of a best seller (with a large number of pre-orders) could not be bothered to make sure their customers could actually read it. Much of the text appears in tiny type in two columns. The two columns on each page represent different conversations. Even if you could read the tiny type, in order to read the entire column of conversation, you have to go forward several pages and then go back to read the conversation in the next column. If you try to read everything on the page, it makes no sense.
Anyway, this sounds like another big winner for JK Rowling!
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@Cyborgette
“I think Incels are right and scientific! I’m proud to say I hate transpeople and the most professional and intellectual book I’ve ever read is Harry Potter! Aren’t I smart!”
I mean really, if he isn’t careful he might cut himself with that edge
@Feliks: If I understand you, you are saying a) you are transphobic and therefore don’t want to engage with arguments made by trans people, b) you agree Rowling is transphobic according to the standards of trans people (who else’s should we use?) and c) people are trying too hard to find evidence of Rowling’s transphobia, which you agree exists.
@Elaine the witch
Why do you find such a pleasure in belittleing and insulting completely strange, anonymous interlocutor on the internet? Did I tell that I am proud to hate transpeople? Did I say I hate you? I try to use low-key satire to disarm your anger and you just keep using insults and dehumanising comparisions.
I am not eager to conversate with you, but I would like to ask if you consider yourself good person? Better than I am?
@SpecialFFrog
a) Not therefore, but because I think they come from different point, differing paradigm and have other moral concerns than Rowling.
b) and c) Yes.
Although I think other standards of transphobic behaviour and views than those of transgender people could be find, especially when “transphobia” is used as an insult or a political term.
@Feliks Dzierżyński
Nope. Only trans people get to decide what is transphobic.
Hmm, now he can barely read because of a poor third-world education, when before he couldn’t find women who were able to be on his level as a lover of philosophy. It seems we have one of those morphing trolls that becomes whatever they need to be just so they can argue with everyone.
@Makroth
It doesn’t seem to be the best idea. They can differ, you know, and differ in fact in judging what is and is not transphobic.
@LouCPurr
Or maybe I just responded in sarcastic manner to insulting and condescending comment made by Elaine?
@Feliks
if you have no interest in engaging trans people on our terms regarding what is and isn’t transphobic, then you’re only here to stir shit. i once again invite you to go elsewhere for your “reasonable debate”
Awwww, someone doesn’t like hearing their favourite bigot is a bigot and is (*checks comments*) a bigot themselves.
@ Feliks
Yes I do. Because I don’t hate trans people. I’m not a whinny incel who cries about women liking astrology and wine and I’m not the one who has a real life murderer as my profile name. But good try incel boy.
I feel like it’s time to get this dude out of here, mostly because of his bad faith arguing and his murderer’s name—Crip Dyke was right when she said we wouldn’t let someone called Adolf Hitler stick around, although having looked it up this is more like a Heinrich Himmler or Herman Goring here (as Crip Dyke may have said but I can’t check atm without losing the comment)—but also because he sucks up every conversation and poisons it.
@David: Can we please be rid of the mass-murder-worshipping incel LGBT-phobic male chauvinist pig whiner now? PLEASE.
I mean, he’ll probably turn up again as Lenin, Stalin, or more of their bunch.
(Never mind that anyone as whiny as him wouldn’t do well in a 20th century Communist or Fascist dictatorship.)
@Alan: Jolly good for Britain upholding standards of legibility. The arguments and papers themselves might be impenetrable, but by God, they will be large enough to read! An especially good idea when the m’luds and m’ladies tend to be of an age who need reading glasses.
@Kat: I would like to join the Silent Miaow book club with yourself and the smol floof.
@GSS ex-noob
It takes only two or three individuals to have a book club. So it’s on! I’ll bring the tuna snax.
@Feliks Dzierżyński
But your name is not Anonymous. Would that it were. No, the name you chose was Feliks Dzierżyński, who started the USSR secret police. You obviously think your name is cool. Given the career of Feliks Dzierżyński, I’d say your choice is abhorrent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Dzerzhinsky
@ kat
Ooh, channeling Robert Robinson there. Love it!
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/telly/tv-a-z/a-m/c-is-for/call-my-bluff/
I’ve been watching Kleo on Netflix. I’m not at all sure I’d recommend it: Kleo herself is an extremely violent person who seems to have a sense of whimsy but no conscience.
This fictional series is about a young woman who is a spy and an assassin for East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi. She is framed and put in prison. After the Berlin Wall falls, political prisoners are released, including her. She goes on a revenge-fueled crime spree. No hilarity ensues, none at all.
I was watching this show last night and was really, really surprised to see a poster of Feliks Dzierżyński on the wall at a seasoned spy’s home. The quote was something along the lines of “An agent must be cleaner and more honest than the average person.” (Yeah, yeah.) And here I had never heard of this man before our current troll came along.
I have something of an interest in East Germany. I saw The Lives of Others, a film about the Stasi and how they wrecked East German lives. I also watched Russian Doll on Netflix, and season 2 has a subplot about students tunneling out of East Germany.
@Alan Robertshaw
Would that I were channeling Robert Robinson. But now I know who he is.
@ kat
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action.
And now I bet everyone suddenly sees that cropping up everywhere.
Weird.
Feliks comes in characterizing people as sick and morons and thinks they can complain about disparagement. Fascinating.
As an antidote to the troll, a story I found link in another blog’s comment section a bit ago, which was also discussing the Rowling book’s formatting failure.
https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1420177932518137862
(Hope this embedding thing works right.)
Written with a fake text generator according to the author.
I love you guys
Harry Potter was an escape for me as well as for many other young kids. It was the first book series that captured my attention and the reason I became a reader. I will always be thankful for that. But looking back with a more critical adult eye reveals so many issues I had glossed over as a new reader. I can never in good conscious pick up another book or product by jk Rowling. I also don’t feel right donating the HP books because of all the problematic themes (transphobia, anti semitism, bit of sexism, fat phobia, etc). I’m just disappointed in her.
I guess most people here have seen Shaun’s lengthy video on JKR and HP, but I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t:
https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs
(I’m taking this thread to the next page for better visibility)