OH, *GOODREADS*

A man who did his level best to drive me off social media because I criticized a bad review he wrote of a book about women, by a woman, is now loudly trumpeting how he will only read books by women in 2015. I suppose this is what they mean by ironic.

all hail web two-dot-oh!

....man, it's probably mean of me to say, but looking at the Goodreads reviews of Sophie Hannah's novels you can see where some peoples' reading comprehension -- or lack thereof -- just slams them into a wall of Do Not Get and they blame the author. Well, this always happens with bad readers -- they remind me of the eighteen-year-old kids I taught in English Comp 101 who found everything "boring" -- Martin Luther King, Thoreau, Alice Walker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman....everything.

But at least the kids were eighteen. And at least they weren't writing "reviews" that get posted on a website which has been bought by the biggest monopolistic bookseller in the world, and which are now possibly influencing sales, contracts, what have you....ah well. There's a reason I'm not on that site anymore. Well. Many reasons. This is a small one.

(Yes, I know. I'm on a hiatus. Posts like this are why I'm on a hiatus.)

shameless even for GoodReads

....fucking wow. I look forward to more five-star reviews of this book from Doctorow's mother, spouse, and possibly his dog! If he has no dog, I'm sure one will be provided for the purposes of reviewing.

And of course it's the top-rated review for this book, of course it is. And the "review" is basically "I copyedited this book and really liked it!" 'CONFLICT OF INTEREST' is apparently not in this guy's vocabulary. Nor GR's.


("....the complete removal of any security in objectivity for the reader" This guy is a copyeditor? really?)