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|comment= Interesting review from a reader who was obviously a Harry Potter fan when younger. Thought it seemed an honest and well thought out response to this book, but definitely detected huge disappointment.
Haven’t read The Casual Vacancy yet so can’t comment. I mean to read it because I think I should – out of curiosity if nothing more – BUT am seriously put off by knowing I’ll be stepping into real grunginess..J.K. Rowling may have felt a social compulsion to write this, exposing all the ghastliness of a lot of today’s society, but will it change anything? Life is hard for most of us and reading a good book which cheers us up is one of the things that gets us by, so why has she produced such a dreary sounding book? Dickens wrote to expose social evils of his time, but he did manage to include comedy and enjoyment in his novels too, somehow!
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