I put a novel I'd written up on Amazon to be downloaded as a Kindle purchase. I made my friend Elizabeth give me a five-star review even though she'd never read it. As the years have passed, I've come to realize that the book probably wasn't any good but I loved the whole experience of it. Now I see someone actually bought it and wrote a review of it on my birthday in March. I'm sure her review is totally accurate but somehow I don't even mind because it's so exciting to have it up there on Amazon and someone actually downloaded it.
Maybe one day when I have more time I'll try again to write a novel. But hopefully it won't be as bad as this one.
Here's what the reviewer said:
"I found this book to be increasingly boring to the point that I couldn't even finish it.
The characters had no depth whatsoever. I didn't mind deleting it from my Kindle because I just couldn't make myself care about any of the characters.
The writing was poor and stilted with no imagery at all."
Eliz again: OUCH!
6 comments:
This reviewer is an idiot. Even when I don't agree with your positions (when yours are wrong, and mine are right) I find your writing interesting, engaging and articulate. "Boring" applies to absolutely nothing you've ever written.
This is a problem with allowing anyone in the world to write a review. For all we know, this "reviewer" could think "People" magazine is brilliant material.
I stand by my own review of your book.
But..."People IS brilliant!:):)
I have not read the book (got no Kindle) but I bet it isn't boring at all!
How MEAN. Wonder who that person is? I better go into the Amazon site and write a refutation, even without having read the book.
thank u. I wrote her a nice note to be christian about it.
I sent that earlier comment from my phone during chorus rehearsals -- I was trying to see if it was possible & it is, as long as I'm laconic.
PS Eliz, remember when we slashed up a book we hated on Amazon reviews? We were so vicious! How fun that was. But the author could take it, she was raking in bucks from that tome.
BWJ, thanks for adding a positive review for my book! Much appreciated.
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