I had been waiting for this book… even booked it at crosswords hoping to be the first few to buy it when it hit the stands. 110 pages and retailing for Rs 625. Ok I thought…This is the creator of Harry Porter… she can only write the finest of books….so it’ll be worth it.  

And boy was I wrong…! This book was not even worth the Rs 100 photo copy that one can get at the traffic signals in the suburbs. 110 pages… even a quick reader like me had to labour through them and each page had me asking myself, what the whole point of the damn book was.

I know JKR writes for kids… so this book (about fairy tales for Magical children) would be aimed at the kids. Well, so was Harry Porter and it made excellent adult reading. But Tales from Beedle, the Booooooring Bard, had me wondering if JKR had really written this. I think even a ghost writer would have done a better job ( I read the online ghost written version of Deathly Hallows before the real book came out and totally enjoyed it. It was such a brilliant reflection of JKR’s style that I couldn’t have figured that it wasn’t written by her!)  

Anyways, after I labored through the book and Professor Dumbledore’s pointless remarks, I came across the real purpose of the book. Hey, it was for a good cause. There was a note at the end by Baronness Nicholson, the chair person of the Children High level Group (a group dedicated to representing the rights of children). It thanked the reader for buying this book and that said that all proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the CHLG. Well, atleast some good will come out of this pain inflicted on JKRs fans.