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05/07/2006: "Spoilers"
mood: Irritated
Feedback from the readers is a necessary and valuable thing and so the review sections of Amazon are a useful tool but, saddoe that I am, when I browsed Amazon.com this week I found not so much a review, more a detailed description of the plot, complete with the final page twist. The author of this seemed to think that by adopting a sarcastic tone she was making legitimate comment.
Nor was there any informed analysis with details as to why she was not greatly enthralled, where I had gone wrong, how I could improve. All she has done is done potential damage to my sales by spoiling it for others.
The ironic thing is that she didn't hate or even dislike the book as she gave it three stars; not great, I grant you, but hardly damning.
What was the point?
Keith McCarthy on Sunday, May 7th 2006 @ 01:47 PM GMT [link]