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Uh, where are you getting the connection to Hot Fuzz? What exactly do these concepts have in common except taking place in a small town in the British countryside and things like "duplicity and unexpected relations?"
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The title is making me think of The Complacency of the Learned. I don't know why.
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Yeah, I don't think its particularly like Hot Fuzz. The Town with a Dark Secret is a common trope, especially in Britain.
I'm interested to see her writing outside of Harry Potter.
How much you want to bet this will be constantly and idiotically compared to Harry Potter, even though she's clearly trying to do something new with her writing?
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
I don't know. It sounds to me like JK Rowling is trying to do something different from Harry Potter. That's a good thing, if you ask me, because it's a bad idea for an author to imitate books she had written previously. Hey, maybe it'll be a standalone book, and not a series this time! 
^ That's what I said, yeah. The problem is that nobody will ever think of this outside of Harry Potter.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
So, small-town politics. That could be a fun read; JKR's pretty good at character studies.
Ahr river
I...am absolutely clueless on how to form an opinion on this.
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Hell, count me in.
I've always thought Rowling would do well writing something awash in wry British humour. (Obligatory "u".) Her website was always deliciously cheeky, and I still get the giggles when I think of that post where she admitted that the Mark Evans named in Order of the Phoenix was not, in fact, a relative of Lily's.
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Not like Hot Fuzz, but it does sound an awful lot like the classic Barchester Towers.
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Yeah now that I think about it the Hot Fuzz comparison seems like a stretch.
Still looking forwards to this!
Seems a bit like Midsomer Murders to me. And since I am not a fan....
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I predict vast amounts of HP crossover fanfic.
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Midsomer Mere is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Midsomer Mere is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
^^Good grief. You're absolutely correct. I find the thought of Rowling writing Midsomer Murders terribly amusing, so I think I'm actually going to read this.
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It feels funny to say, but I get the feeling that some of the class warfare overtones sprinkled throughout the Harry Potter series are going to be a lot more obvious in this book.
I'm not entirely opposed to that.
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I have to admit, I'm pretty excited about this. I love her. Writing style, and I think that this may be exactly the sort of story she's going to ecell at with all the class warfare undertones which were some of the best parts of the later HP books.
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The first thing that came to my mind was Frank Bryce, Little Hangleton, and the Riddles.
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I think this will be something interesting to go check out. I'll give it a read when I get the chance.
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Ditto. Just the way the description was worded sounded an awful lot like the tone of the first few paragraphs of Goblet.
edited 14th Apr '12 8:06:52 AM by Fiwen9430
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BWHAHAHAHAHAHA
It sounds terrible.
It's not over. Not yet.
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Agreed 
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A town at war!
Cats against dogs, corner shops against malls, cricket balls against footballs...
edited 9th May '12 10:16:23 PM by Medicus
It's not over. Not yet.
Terrible? Why do you say that?
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Here's the summary:
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
More info.
This seems a little familiar...
edited 12th Apr '12 9:53:06 AM by dmysta3000
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