Reading Casual Vacancy made me remember that the same thing happened with Harry Potter. Not that they were swearing a lot but that the books weren't too well written. The story was interesting enough to keep you hooked and the whole magical world sucked you in, but just so much of it could have done with a nice, sharp editing.
Sadly the problem of the not so high quality of writing is often true of many bestsellers. It seems that when someone manages to write something compelling and artistic, which is perhaps written in an interesting way, it seldom becomes the #1 bestseller. For some reason the great reading public doesn't seem appreciate well written stories as much as it does a dramatic plotline. Don't get me wrong, I can absolutely see value in a catching story but why do the danbrowns of this world always manage to produce such poorly written books?
So now the good (or bad, as it seems) people of Pagford are gathering dust on my night stand. After the Potter experience I'm pretty sure the poor writing will remain but there will be few flying brooms or moving staircases in Pagford so I'm relatively sure the book will stay put where it is until the day I feel it should go back to its original place on the bookcase
And while we're on the subject: I know I'm a bit of a nitpicker, but am I the only one who finds it irritating that the name of Rowling's village is almost the same as Sirius Black's nickname in Harry Potter? How hard can it be to make up a name for a village? Padfoot/Pagford. I mean, seriously. Sigh.
