Taking all bets, taking all bets, how long before the kleptocracy allows advertising of cigarettes again?
Adrian Speed
@adrianspeed.bsky.social
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A novelist and amatuer history communicator.
A novelist and amatuer history communicator.
![Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin savaged J.K. Rowling in a 2004 Guardian interview?
“I have no great opinion of [JK Rowling’s writing style]. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq5ehloxmqczfgco7s24ffy3/bafkreibykzxxk3i7tnxamgyvwsevx644uivhhsn4dujlzg2ybealjaimf4)
