Rowling is not childish

Joan Rowling, the author of the famous seven -rock history of Harry Potter and his friends, again became the heroine of the first stripes of at least the English -language press last week. On September 27, her new Casual Vacancy novel finally appeared on sale (the approximate Russian name is “ordinary vacancy” or “free place”) - this is her first book for adults. Critics can not be called brilliant reviews: this is a completely new, unusual Rowling, who, instead of the world of the School of Wizards, writes about not too far, deprived of any magic of the snobs of a small English town. “This is definitely not a book for children,” writes the literary critic The New York Times, “suicide, rape, sex in the cemetery, frank scenes of domestic violence - all this causes the reader emotions directly opposite to those that caused books about Harry Potter,” Mishiko Kakutani hits. And he concludes: "The casual vacancy is not just disappointing, this is an openly boring book." However, Rowling is a book business star: Harry Potter was translated into 73 languages, collected a total circulation of 450 million copies (only the Bible was published in a large circulation), which divorced 200 countries and autonomous formations of the world, eight full -length films were shot on them. That's exactly why Casual Vacancy is sold at a star price. The price of a solid binding-$ 35 and above, the electronic version for Kindle-is almost twice as high as average: $ 17.99-for American sellers (the average e-book goes a little less than $ 9) and £ 11.99 ($ ​​19,44) in the UK.