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Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb
I had an author comment on a review I gave on Amazon once. He just thanked me for the kind review. I didn't feel creeped out by it, I thought it was nice that he showed appreciation for people taking the time to write reviews. I believe it was his first (or second) book so I was a bit surprised at how good it was. I only bought it initially because he was so polite on the Kindle boards.  Honey catches more flies... |
Author Robert W. Walker once commented on an extremely negative review I posted of one of his "Glenn Hale" books (Dr. O). It was one of those reviews where I wondered if the book was a Silence of the Lambs rip-off or a parody.
His reponse was actually quite a lot of fun and gave me a new perspective on the book. (Whoops, it was meant as a parody.
) I ended up buying the Kindle edition, which is non-DRM'ed by the way. I also added some of his more recent stuff to my wishlist.
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All the new one-star reviews of the Howlett book have me rolling my eyes, however. If they really read the book and posted a review, that's fine, but many sound like they're just getting in their digs because they read about it on the blog, on Twitter, on Salon, or whatever. OK, OK, I get the point. It needed to be edited.
Can we stop circling the wagons around the poor adjectives and adverbs? Some of them need to slowly amble out onto the windy plains.