If you're going to publish something, it seems to me that you have to deal with the possible eventuality that people might not like it. People have different tastes, but if the majority of people are bitching about the way you've written a book, maybe that ought be a sign to you? "Hey, people don't like this. Maybe there's something valid here? *toddles off to take closer look*"
I have no problem at all with people not liking it. I actually have no problem with people not reading it and posting with their thumbs up their nose, fwiw.
But in this case the book has already been out for, I think, a year (in hardcover), and has recently come out in paperback and has being getting mixed reviews for the entire year. This is the first time she's said anything on amazon about it that I'm aware of (the slander that she refers to, I believe, would be the review where someone says that her dead husband was probably the real writer, given the precipitous decline in her work after his death).
And while one does have to deal with the possibility that someone won't like your work, I don't actually see why one should be expected to deal with grace 100% of the time when someone loudly, maliciously and personally doesn't like your work in a public forum. I don't see why her weight in this, or her anger, somehow looms so very much larger than the posts she's essentially replying to. I understand that in the cult of celebrity, it does, but I think this is irrational. She had a bad day. That happens.
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Date: 2004-09-22 06:11 am (UTC)I have no problem at all with people not liking it. I actually have no problem with people not reading it and posting with their thumbs up their nose, fwiw.
But in this case the book has already been out for, I think, a year (in hardcover), and has recently come out in paperback and has being getting mixed reviews for the entire year. This is the first time she's said anything on amazon about it that I'm aware of (the slander that she refers to, I believe, would be the review where someone says that her dead husband was probably the real writer, given the precipitous decline in her work after his death).
And while one does have to deal with the possibility that someone won't like your work, I don't actually see why one should be expected to deal with grace 100% of the time when someone loudly, maliciously and personally doesn't like your work in a public forum. I don't see why her weight in this, or her anger, somehow looms so very much larger than the posts she's essentially replying to. I understand that in the cult of celebrity, it does, but I think this is irrational. She had a bad day. That happens.