And that’s not even a very good example.īut The Casual Vacancy is a different beast entirely. Eliot writing both The Waste Landand also Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The most successful example I can think of is T.S. All the available evidence suggests that it’s simply a different kind of talent. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. I also know enough literary sabermetrics to be aware that the odds of the book’s being good were not short. I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. 22 I work for the military-industrial-entertainment complex, let’s just leave it at that). I know I had a lot of, let’s call them feelings when I opened the book (which happened on Sept. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision.
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