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Bad Reviews
First: it is my fixed opinion that there are no bad reviews. There are only reviews that the author - in his or her vanity - perceives as bad.
This is because every review of every book every written, is the opinion of the reviewer, and is entirely valid as a statement of truth. Well ... that assumes we may discount bribery, conspiracy or Satanic intervention. But on that assumption I never complain when I get the occasional stinker.
Which I do. My favourite is the following: "I cannot understand how any literary agent or publisher allowed such awful prose." You, dear reader, are free to guess which of my books got that one.
But one of mine did! I comfort myself with the fact that the author of that review never asked me to write, and that I wrote out of my vanity, and that his opinion was true and valid. And also that in due course he will go to Hell for what he has said. And serve him right.
Here endeth the lesson.
All best, John Drake
This is because every review of every book every written, is the opinion of the reviewer, and is entirely valid as a statement of truth. Well ... that assumes we may discount bribery, conspiracy or Satanic intervention. But on that assumption I never complain when I get the occasional stinker.
Which I do. My favourite is the following: "I cannot understand how any literary agent or publisher allowed such awful prose." You, dear reader, are free to guess which of my books got that one.
But one of mine did! I comfort myself with the fact that the author of that review never asked me to write, and that I wrote out of my vanity, and that his opinion was true and valid. And also that in due course he will go to Hell for what he has said. And serve him right.
Here endeth the lesson.
All best, John Drake
