I feel a little sympathy for her because I also tend to get out-of-control when responding to sheer nastiness tossed in my direction, but I'm tempted to print out her Amazon.com post and hang it on my wall next to my computer as a reminder to never, ever try to get in the last word wrt a bad review, whether written by an Amazon.com nameless nabob or Edmund Wilson.
This is probably the best thing that could come out of it -- those of us with a short fuse print out a copy and post it beside our computers <wry g>.
It's interesting how many people are comparing her to a fanfic writer who can't take criticism -- because what she's responding to isn't the kind of measured criticism fanfic can get. I wonder how much of that is due to her status as a "genre" author -- a bestselling one, to be sure, but still someone without "literary" prestige.
I don't write fanfic, and I don't read it, so I don't always understand the subculture. Could you expand on this a bit?
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Date: 2004-09-22 06:31 am (UTC)This is probably the best thing that could come out of it -- those of us with a short fuse print out a copy and post it beside our computers <wry g>.
It's interesting how many people are comparing her to a fanfic writer who can't take criticism -- because what she's responding to isn't the kind of measured criticism fanfic can get. I wonder how much of that is due to her status as a "genre" author -- a bestselling one, to be sure, but still someone without "literary" prestige.
I don't write fanfic, and I don't read it, so I don't always understand the subculture. Could you expand on this a bit?