JK Rowling's new book comes under fire AGAIN as readers brand the author 'patronising and deeply snobbish' for writing a working class character's dialogue differently

UK Daily Mail ^ | September 17, 2020 | Monia Greep

[C19fan]

JK Rowling has once again been criticised for her new novel, after she was accused of 'transliterating' one of the book's working class characters by spelling their dialect differently.

Troubled Blood, written under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith, was released Tuesday and sees detective Cormoran Strike work out what happened to missing GP Margot Bamborough.

The book originally came under fire for featuring a 'transvestite serial killer' called Dennis Creed, who murders his victims while wearing female clothing and a wig, sparking furious backlash online, amid accusations of transphobia against the author.

[C19fan]

Really??? I have read enough Victorian novels where authors did spell out dialects for characters like Rowling has done.

[Mount Athos]

they’re out to get her cause of what she said about trans

[Professional]

Why don’t I see the word controversial in the headline! I demand my new favorite adjective!

[Little Ray]

Kipling was the master of writing accents or dialects of English.

[Political Junkie Too]

Samuel Clemens did that, too, and he's been effectively wiped from our schools.

-PJ

[cdcdawg]

‘transvestite serial killer’

Is there a shower scene with a body double for Angie Dickinson? Asking for a friend.

Seriously, this is shaping up to be Rowling’s best book yet! All the right people hate it!

[captain_dave]

A “transvestite serial killer”? So, JK is starting to write more historically accurate fiction. Might be a good read.

[SunkenCiv]

Wait and watch as tigers fight.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

People do speak differently based on class, education, culture, region, etc. Why shouldn’t that be reflected in written dialogue?

[Patriot_MP]

... this is the character in the new book ...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And H.P. Lovecraft made his New England farmer characters sound like Arkan-saw Hillbillies.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The “serial killer” attacked ONE woman while wearing a wig and what the women claimed was a “woman’s coat”. He attacked another woman without either. It’s 3 words in the book about it.

[ChildOfThe60s]

You are asking a logical and rational question of illogical and irrational people. That’s pretty much a non-starter.

[Mr. K]

I( hope she’s learning what you get when you encourage these socialists.

I used to wonder how (socialist) Hitler found people willing to kill for him.

Today’s millennial liberals see like they would be gleefully willing to.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

JK Rowling was a single mother living on benefits who wrote her novel in a Cafe to save money on heating her flat before she became a successful author. You may as well criticise a black author for writing a charectar speaking in ebonics.