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Originally Posted by wyndslash
jeez. authors should never respond to negative reviews ...
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Well, if you respond in an intelligent way, you can even turn whole situation and benefit from the review.
Some time ago there was very critical and very funny review of GHOST, a book by John Ringo. Yes, THAT John Ringo that wrote lots of great books that were published by Baen.
But GHOST is ... different. It is totally awful. It is so awful and the review is so entertaining that an Internet meme "OH JOHN RINGO NO." has been created. John Ringo even started to sell merchandise, such as T-shirts with "OH JOHN RINGO NO."
http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_%...Ringo_novel%29
The book is available on Baen for free, and the entire series was quite successful. See link from Wikipedia article.