Comments on: Our Advice: Ignore Reviews https://booksquare.com/our-advice-ignore-reviews/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=our-advice-ignore-reviews Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Larissa Ione https://booksquare.com/our-advice-ignore-reviews/#comment-231 Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:09:37 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/09/23/642/#comment-231 I absolutely agree. Instead of listening to why the readers hated her book, she blasted them for it while justifying her reasons for writing the book the way she had. I read a lot of those reviews, and most of the negative ones, while a bit harsh, didn’t seem to be malicious. They were written by people who have been Rice fans since the beginning, who have followed her in every place she’s gone–but they were disappointed in THIS particular book. Most of the bad reviews are by FANS who feel let down, not by jealous authors or mean-spirited people who just felt like trashing any old novel.

Anne Rice has a loyal following of people who have come to expect a certain level of quality from her. They didn’t get it and are showing their feelings. And for that, they got blasted. Did Anne Rice help her cause or hurt it? I’m guessing that she hurt it, but you never know…

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