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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Yes, but if he went to Amazon, he'd have to see the ranking on his novel, "Matches" - Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,223,850 in Books.
And he's got six reviews, of which three read like publishers' internal reviewers, one sounds like an honest positive review and two manage to give him less than three stars (one two-star and one one-star), here's the one-star.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
245 pages instead of 25, October 20, 2006
By James E. O'Leary (Corpus Christi, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
Am I the only reviewer who wonders why Back Bay Books of Little-Brown didn't use an editor? This is repetitious beyond belief. The characters are also beyond belief. A character named "Falk" is the first person narrator who tells the same empty story over and over is so twisted and shallow as he kills arabs in the name of protecting Jews that I would have liked to shoot him myself, not just to put him out of his misery but to punish him for wasting my time. Yes, I did finish the book, if that's what you want to call it.
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As you can see, not the greatest review.
I believe that writing "Matches" was his 'cathartic release' novel and we'll just have to see what he manages in his second novel to see if he really has what it takes.
Derek
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I am sorry to get into the lowness of this thread, but the aforementioned post is really what I would not have expected from a member of this forum. Expressing opinion of a book and on an author one hasn't read, based on the lowest ranked review in amazon.com.
Congrats for falling so low.