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JK Rowling: decade's most successful author
USA Today's Best-Selling Books List notes the achievements that JK Rowling has made in the field of literature and how she has grown to be the decade's most successful author:

Before Rowling there was J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, a best-selling trilogy before it hit the big screen. But Tolkien "appealed more to the college crowd than to kids," says Gayle Feldman, whose study of the book business, Best and Worst of Times, was published last year. Feldman says Rowling "did nothing less than revive the pre-radio, pre-movies, pre-TV tradition of the family-reading book," the kind popularized by Charles Dickens and Walter Scott that were "both classic best seller and best-selling classic."

According to the article, JK Rowling has landed five of the top six spots on the list of the 100 best-selling books of the past 10 years.
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No score for this post March 23 2004, 5:36 PM

Yeah, well, Agatha Christie is the most successful author in the world! Beat that. (;

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No score for this post March 25 2004, 7:47 PM

Hey, numb nuts, that was kind of emplied that JK was the most successfull IN THE WORLD for the decade lol! Maybe if you said most successful of all time lol...

Alana	Posted: Jun 1 2005, 06:04 PM
Janitor Group: Members Posts: 13 Member No.: 5 Joined: 1-June 05	Woo hoo go jk

Riley	Posted: Jun 1 2005, 06:19 PM
Secratary Group: Admin Posts: 337 Member No.: 4 Joined: 28-May 05	Yeah. Thats a pretty amazing accomplishment. -------------------- ~Riley~ MSN:rlyjcksn2@aim.com AIM: rlyjcksn2 YIM: xrileyjx There's a saying: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Okay, how about... nobody should throw stones. Thats just crappy behavior. My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation. There is one exception though: if your trapped in a glass house and you have a stone, then throw it. What are you an idiot? So really its only people in glass houses should throw stones, provided they are trapped in the glass house with the stones.... - Demetri Martin

Keyca	Posted: Jun 1 2005, 10:44 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 255 Member No.: 1 Joined: 26-May 05	My question is though, was it for this decade, or last? If it was for this decade then that's dumb since it's not over yet. If it was for last decade, then what took so long to announce it lol?

Riley	Posted: Jun 26 2005, 08:05 PM
Secratary Group: Admin Posts: 337 Member No.: 4 Joined: 28-May 05	Maybe it's 1995-2005. This post has been edited by Riley on Jun 26 2005, 08:06 PM -------------------- ~Riley~ MSN:rlyjcksn2@aim.com AIM: rlyjcksn2 YIM: xrileyjx There's a saying: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Okay, how about... nobody should throw stones. Thats just crappy behavior. My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation. There is one exception though: if your trapped in a glass house and you have a stone, then throw it. What are you an idiot? So really its only people in glass houses should throw stones, provided they are trapped in the glass house with the stones.... - Demetri Martin

madeye	Posted: Jul 15 2005, 03:18 PM
Janitor Group: Members Posts: 30 Member No.: 9 Joined: 27-June 05	I think the books strike a cord with people. They show an underdog in a brave fight against evil that he is fated to have to face. People love that kind of thing, if well done. LOtR's is the same type thing....very similar.

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