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Annie Proulx's memoir.
Jeff Wrangler:
Jesus H., it sounds like all those spiteful reviewers read an entirely different book. :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 15, 2011, 12:20:01 pm ---Jesus H., it sounds like all those spiteful reviewers read an entirely different book. :-\
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Spiteful? I wonder why several different reviewers would feel spite toward AP.
I'm thinking it's probably just that different people hold different opinions. Though I would say that Lee, completely understandably, probably went into the book with the opposite of spite toward AP.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: crayonlicious on March 15, 2011, 01:17:47 pm ---Spiteful? I wonder why several different reviewers would feel spite toward AP.
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Professional jealousy, maybe.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 15, 2011, 01:29:37 pm ---Professional jealousy, maybe.
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If reviewers gave bad reviews to writers they felt was better than them, then no good book would ever get a good review. Only bad writing would get good reviews.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 15, 2011, 12:20:01 pm ---Jesus H., it sounds like all those spiteful reviewers read an entirely different book. :-\
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Well, I kept thinking, okay, when is it going to get nasty? I was actually looking forward to it!!
As Paul clarified earlier, the Garner review from the New York Times was the most negative of all the reviews he saw. I also noticed that The New Yorker review was kind of meh. Most other reviews have been neutral or positive.
The fact that I llistened to it on CD might have also been a factor. When you hear the author's voice, you have a more positive reaction than when you just read black words on white paper.
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