"Critics? Bah." LOL Yeah, I'm amazed sometimes at how clueless a reviewer (hired by a respected magazine or news paper) can be... it is like they don't even understand what they are reviewing.... The example of Good Omens getting panned by the New York Times Book Review because the book reminded the reviewer of how angry he was w/his British ex-wife and her relatives is a particularly mind boggling one (and of course the book went to number one anyway, but too late to benefit the authors because the publisher had dropped their book!). Neil & Terry went into a lot of detail about that, because they are still bitter about all those sales for which they got no money. It is tough being a writer, even when you get published you can get screwed.
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Date: 2011-07-21 02:46 am (UTC)LOL
Yeah, I'm amazed sometimes at how clueless a reviewer (hired by a respected magazine or news paper) can be... it is like they don't even understand what they are reviewing....
The example of Good Omens getting panned by the New York Times Book Review because the book reminded the reviewer of how angry he was w/his British ex-wife and her relatives is a particularly mind boggling one (and of course the book went to number one anyway, but too late to benefit the authors because the publisher had dropped their book!). Neil & Terry went into a lot of detail about that, because they are still bitter about all those sales for which they got no money. It is tough being a writer, even when you get published you can get screwed.