I have to say, this thread has been quite fun. I was hoping this was the same M. R. Mathias from the Amazon Fantasy boards, and I was not disappointed! Wacky hijinks and nonsensical ire abounded! I laughed! I cried! M. R., I enjoy your compulsion to totally alienate many potential readers and friends on
multiple forums. It's fascinating.
If this is an anti-marketing campaign, I think the anti-snobbishness (you people with your grammar and your spelling! rarr!) tack might have worked, but your immaturity and defensiveness ruins it a tad. Alas! If this isn't an anti-marketing campaign then I'm not quite sure what to say.
What really makes me wonder is how many authors we've read and loved would we never have read if we, say, met them on a forum? Hahah. "That Hemingway, what a tool, I'll not pick any of his books up, for sure!" What authors would have been the most incorrigible trolls...? *muses*