I WILL FINALLY PUT MY POWERS TO USE

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I feel like an idiot which is not an unusual feeling for me but this time it’s bad. For those of you who follow me on twitter you know I have been tweeting about the treatment of women in the Middle East. It is something that has bothered me for a long time and I am very frustrated that the world can’t seem to come together and free almost a billion women from captivity.

Because I have been so focused on this issue I completely missed something horrifying that has been happening in America and I feel stupid. It is hard for me to comprehend this and you may want to stop reading because what I am about to say is very disturbing but here it is – there are people out there writing bad book reviews. I KNOW, I KNOW, calm down and we will think this through together. Apparently there are people on GoodReads that have been posting bad book reviews and it went unnoticed until a small group of heroes started a website to put an end to this madness.

I don’t know who these people are but God Bless them. Finally, instead of focusing on the small issues that don’t matter like illness, women’s rights, war, poor people, the fact our government is broke and a myriad of other things someone is going after the real evil in this world – people who write mean reviews.

I want to be a part of this organization – I mean I already have a cape so I am halfway there. I want to find a little old lady who wrote a bad review and squash that bitch. I want her to know that if I don’t like her opinion I will humiliate her and make her think twice before reading another book much less posting a review.

I have so many ideas too that can help:

First, we need to find a name other than “Bullies” that name is associated with gay kids jumping off bridges and nerdy kids getting beat up, you know, shit that doesn’t matter so that word just isn’t strong enough for what is happening on GoodReads. I don’t have a stronger word yet but I will think of one.

Second, we need to expand and go after people who also have bad grammar and don’t use punctuation correctly. I think this is key to our mission because people who can’t spell should not be allowed to write. That in itself will stop a lot of these people.

The possibilities are endless. After we rid the world of these cocksuckers we can move on to movie critics and I already have one in mind – Roger Ebert. Thirty-Five years ago he gave a bad review to Smokey and the Bandit – can you believe that shit? I know we can’t out him but he lives in Chicago so there has to be some way we can fuck with him.

After that we can get those mother fucking food critics. Who do those assholes think they are? Telling us what tastes good. Those arrogant fucks. I actually heard a food critic say that a particular key lime pie was too tart. Seriously, she said that. She could have said it was a little tart but she didn’t – she went full bitch and announced it was TOO tart. We need to fuck her up.

I have learned so much from this group of heroes. For example they have decided what is a good critical review and what isn’t and they teach it on their website. I feel so stupid because now I see that the reviews I have been writing are so wrong. For example this is a good critical review:

Shiloh Walker’s new book is just okee dokee. It isn’t her usual superness. The story is a little odd and character development is pretty good but could have been a little better. I don’t want to hurt Ms. Walker’s feelings because I know she tried really hard and that is all that matters so I give it 4 ½ stars plus a smiley face.

I would have never written that if I hadn’t learned how to be nicer from this group of heroes. I would have said something like this:

This is the worst fucking book I have ever read. The hero is an emotionally distant turtle who falls in love with a giraffe at the San Diego Zoo. The heroine is dumb as shit and seems like she has her head in the clouds. Character development blows as we never really know what the hero and heroine are feeling because there is no inner dialogue or emotional conflict. The sex scenes are just awkward. The hero has to stop during sex and crawl up the heroine’s neck to talk dirty to her and then crawl all the way back down and as a result each sex scene is ten chapters long. Ms. Walker is a no talent waste of space who appears to have written a book just for the money.

I will be applying for membership, wish me luck.

Disclaimer: I love Shiloh’s books and she hasn’t written that turtle book yet but when she does I know if will be great.

Oh,

Which armrest in the movie theater is mine?

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  2. Ok??? It was ok?? This is because I didn’t do turtle sex in it, isn’t it?

    :0P <~~~ that is sticking out my tongue

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  4. Always use the less sticky armrest, especially if you are at a porno.
    Great post. You da man!
    (Serious thoughts later.)

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  5. If you are denied membership count me in on the protest!

    And I’m a lefty so you get the right armrest and you buy the popcorn, twizzlers and coke. :)

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  8. Smokey and the Bandit is an iconic film, masterpiece of its genre. Who is better than Buford T. Justice, “I’ll have a Dr. Pepper and a Diablo sandwich, I’m in hot pursuit.” When I am old, grey, and fat… Okay, older, I want to buy a black Trans Am like the one in the movie.

    Roger Ebert, sorry you lost half your face, but damn you suck at rating movies. I mean if it is not something like The Pianist or The English Patient it is a terrible movie.

    Two of my favorite movies from 2010 were ranked as the worst movies of 2010, Battle Los Angeles and Sucker Punch. This year I liked Red Tails and Battleship, critics hated both of them. The last time I checked, people go to the movies or read books to escape reality and immerse themselves in a fantasy not their own. They do not go looking for character development, artistic value, and cinematography.

    To answer your “required” question; sit in the last seat on the aisle that way you know one armrest is yours for sure.

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    • I wanna hang with you I loved all of those movies and I always sit in the aisle but if you come leave a seat between us

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      • Maybe we could watch Cannonball Run too. As per the Bro-etiquette SOP’s, there are no hugs and always keep a seat between you.

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          • RM- You’re good people, you like Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, the Navy, and the Dallas Cowboys. I think I found my soul mate, LOL.

  10. Is it a pretty trophy? Or a hunky one! Those are just as important to know.

    And was totally in the dark about those bad book reviewers. It is hard enough being a good beta reader and heaping praise and bowing down to our authors all in the hope they will continue to treat us like good slaves. :-p Doing stuff like throwing us a really good meaty bone once in awhile. ;-)

    But go on, RM, just remember use your cape for good!:lol:

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    • Now COME ON, sweetie. I never make you BOW DOWN…at least not more than once upon meeting. And what’s this about heaping praise? Last time I looked, it was fix this, rewrite that, why’d he say that? Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera…and I’d take a hunky trophy over a pretty one any day.

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      • Idk, Kate, what about the whole kneeling at your feet? I am getting too old for that now. *snort*

        With regards to the “suggestions”, I always end with “only if it pleases your majesty” and the appropriate low bow.

        Praises? I am just following your directions. Everywhere I go I’m constantly saying verbatim… Yes, Kate is the most awesome writer on the planet. She is the most perfect being ever created. I am so priviledged to bask in her presence being the unworthy person that I am.

        :lol:

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  11. Ok…now the pressure!!! I’m going to be scared I’ll write reviews that will get the ” review police” after me!! I guess I’ll write them and say RM did it!!

    :lol:

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  12. I am still trying to figure out what in the heck you are talking about. ??

    You get the Right armrest, because I get the Right one!

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  13. BUT, I will say this. If I read a book and like it, I write down my feelings on the book and if someone has totoally dissed the book on stupid reasons I WILL make a comment…… I did that a few weeks ago. The lady was quoting percentages????? Fiction is not percentages. Anyway, she removed her comments but did not change her stars?????

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    • Tracy, your absolutely right. if I like a book I say so and why. If I don’t like a book? I say nothing. There is no reason to be negative or snarky just because it’s your opinion. At least that’s the way I feal. :-/

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      • But sometimes a negative review is okay isn’t it? If it is positive criticism. What good is a review if it will only be good? What if I don’t like a book and you do. If we present both opinions then the readers can choose if that book will be for him/her. As long as its not a MEANIE review I mean. No need to trash someone’s work, since they have spent alot of time on it

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          • RM, I haven’t seen the GR bashing. Went to FB after this and I didn’t see anything from any author I am following. So I still don’t really ‘get’ what happened. You are right :) No bashing of anybody, I say cuz its just mean. If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all :!:

          • LadyG, it’s because most of us don’t want to draw attention to that website. I think Twitter has a lot more information about it, there have been articles written, but I haven’t taken the time to read any of them.

            I’m too busy tweeting with LadyBug about brazilian waxes. LOL

        • I don’t do mean reviews. If someone has taken the time to write and publish I have to respect them for the effort. If I don’t get the book I will say so but pretty much I like everything I read. I usually read reviews b/f I read….There is just soooo much to read and it be a book I don’t like!

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  15. Well, it’s about time you found your way back to the very important news. This campaign to squelch honest reviews is hard work after all. They certainly need a caped man in there making sure someone pays attention that everyone plays nice, I’m glad you’ve joined the good fight.

    *ouch, that was really hard to say with my tongue stuck to my cheek*

    And I can’t help you with the armrest question, I watch movies at home on my big screen. No one messes with mom’s recliner.

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  16. This whole GoodReads scuffle should be upsetting to anyone who loves books. I can’t believe that attack is seen as something that is good for romance, authors and readers alike.

    Two wrongs don’t make a right. I feel very strongly that when you do a book review, if you have some criticism of the work, it should address the work and never the author. But the irony is that book reviewers are writers too! And some of them don’t have the skill to explain why they found fault with a book. So they rely on negativity and insults. Ah, the internet! Where every jackass gets their 15 minutes in the spotlight. In this brave new world we live in, some crap books are getting published and some crap reviews are getting posted. Eleanor Roosevelt said it: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Why in God’s name would you pay attention to a negative review when the writer of that review offered nothing to help you improve your craft? Ignore “mean” reviews! People have the right not to like something. Even people with no taste.

    But what people don’t have the right to do is threaten, stalk, harass, and out someone over the fact that they wrote something mean spirited. Grow the fuck up! None of us get through life without somebody trying to crap all over us. Don’t waste the energy it takes to hate them. And stop hurting an industry that already gets so disrespected as a genre and is struggling to keep publishing books. Reviewers, if you can’t write a review that contains constructive criticism, please go away. And authors, if you are so thin skinned that you let some rude idiot get to you, rethink the career choice of publishing a book.

    The best thing we can do is to ignore these juveniles. Maybe if their web site doesn’t get any traffic, they will go away.

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    • Thanks Pat and Marquita.You can tell that I am passionate about my books. I want authors to do well so I keep getting my books!

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      • Some writers got together and started an anti-GR Bully website about mean reviewers and they took it waaaay faaar. Like posting pics, schedules, real names and address. SCARY stuff. Also rather hypocritical if you ask me. Bullying the so-called bully is okay? Don’t get that line of thinking…

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          • I know there are several Authors on FaceBook that LET EVERYBODY know when someone posts a Bad Review to one of their books.

            But personally, they do a job well enough that they don’t need a group.

          • I would not follow an author who is constantly pointing out faults in others

          • Tracy, I’ve seen that on Facebook and to each his own, but I don’t understand why they advertise a bad review.

            I did post something the other day, an email I received, only because it was so damn stupid! The woman wrote to me and ranted about getting my book on a pirate site and it infected her computer with a bad virus and she was super pissed, and thought I should go to the pirate site and complain on her behalf. LOL

            I wanted to tell her to change the filter in stupid-juice-dispenser, but I don’t engage with such dumbassness-douche-canoes.

          • I wasn’t talking about you Selena. There are several (YA authors) that tell every time someone doesn’t like their books and will ask their readers to be “sure” and leave a review to counteract the bad ones.

            LG, I wouldn’t say I follow these authors, but I do “like” their pages so I know what is coming up…don’t read much YA but there are several series that I follow.

    • Well said, Diane. It’s never a good idea to go on Goodreads or Amazon and start debating with someone over a review.

      The only reviewers I thank are the review sites, whether the review was positive or not. I was raised to be polite, so I don’t see what the problem is with a quick thank you. But I was told many many times, I must not review sites or visit them when a review is posted. As I said earlier, I don’t listen to phantom rules that some group made up, and I don’t know who the group is, and I don’t care.

      Goodreads and Amazon, I stay far away from. If there is a negative review, I don’t comment, and if there is a wonderful review I still won’t comment.

      If a reader emails me personally and complains about the product they purchased, then I encourage them to try to get a refund and even give other recommendations, as I said earlier.

      I can rant at home alone and wallow over a bad review on my own. I get over it pretty quickly, it happens to us all, it’s part of the writing process.

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    • Well said, Diane. I had a reader all upset because of some really horrible reviews I got when the first Wolf Tales came out–that’s the one RM read and still hasn’t reviewed…but there were all these complaints about aberrant sexual behavior and bestiality and homosexuality in a ROMANCE fer cryin’ out loud…and my sales went through the roof. :-)

      I don’t have any issue with a critical review unless I feel that the reviewer totally missed the point or possibly didn’t even read the book–and yes, that happens more than it should. If you don’t have a thick skin, you shouldn’t write for public consumption. Opinions are like assholes…everyone’s got one.

      I will admit, though, that I rarely read reviews on Amazon.com and have never spent much time on Goodreads. Too much snark, and the minute you let someone’s words upset you, you’ve given them power over you that they don’t deserve. But it’s a free country, and if a reviewer wants to trash my books, that’s their right. I just don’t have to read it or let it get to me.

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      • Kate Wolf Tales was great I started with book 2 first and had to hunt down every book I was hooked. I can’t imagine them being any other way then they are love my Chanku!

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      • Thank you Kate that is exactly my point. And I am going to review Wolf Tales, I promise. I am almost done with the therapy it induced and my shrink says it would be good to write about it.

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      • Very Good attitude to have. Although I believe that everyone has a right to state their opinion I personally don’t enjoy trashy reviews. I have read reviews from bloggers that didn’t enjoy a book, but they didn’t trash the author. I believe you guys work really hard to put out your stories. If someone didn’t like it….just say it. No reason to beat someone to a pulp.

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  18. I am in full support of your crusade, RM. I also think we should also tackle who replaces the toilet paper roll.

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      • You are sweet – the theater we go to is a Pub and Cinema – and they use old Lincoln Continental bucket seats – they recline and are on wheels, so you can move them to get a better view. Hubs won’t go to a normal theater now – miss the movie snuggling

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  21. RM said: “Second, we need to expand and go after people who also have bad grammar and don’t use punctuation correctly. I think this is key to our mission because people who can’t spell should not be allowed to write.”

    Yeah, I’m all for boiling in oil anyone who uses your and you’re incorrectly. We can do it together because I have a tiara, but it doesn’t match your cape. It isn’t blue. But I do know how to spell testudine.

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  22. RM – I am so proud of you for bringing this to our attention – you are right we need to address this pressing issue before we attack the freeing of the women of the world.
    I do not think I can be a member though, my CS degree really messed up my spelling and punctuation I rely on Word to tell me what I should do, and how reliable is that – programmers wrote the software!

    The required question: If I am with friends only – the right arm rest – I am right handed. If I am with Hubs the arm rest closest to him – easier access.
    :lol:

    What a great post! I hope you enjoyed your day with the Family. Thanks for coming back and writing such a great post.

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      • I agree on the food critics – who cares did it taste good – and people who don’t think it tasted good won’t go back – it will go out of business – survival of the tastiest!

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        • I had to cook for 3 brothers when I was growing up, I can handle ANY food critic after that crew. LOL

          Well, maybe not Gordon Ramsey, I think he’d be wearing a frying pan on his head, if he yelled at me the he yells at those chefs.

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          • I tell people more about the cleanliness and the service than the food.
            Actually I have never read a food review – so RM I guess I am already boycotting them

  23. RM, the last time I absolutely hated a book and told others that I did and why, it was a best-selling, Oprah touted, lets go from hardback to trade and THEN to mass market piece of boring, dick sucking trash. Now it’s being made into a movie called Life of Pi. This just proves that nobody listens to me.

    Keep rocking’, man. We love ya.

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      • By the way I now get what that tweet was about earlier. Have to say too that I love author interaction and personally would never write anything in my reviews that isn’t a constructive critique. Authors give a piece of their heart to us with their words; as their books take a piece of ours. Why would anyone want to turn that into something negative?

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  25. Good blog post, Caped Crusader.

    Didn’t I tweet something to you about, “and we’re trying to solve things overseas?”

    I was in the dark about this whole Goodreads thing, then caught on after seeing so many tweets and reading some of the authors blogging about it. There is a link for this nimrods who have banned together and are giving writers and reviewers an embarrassing bad name.

    I think these idiots are sitting back and basking in the glory and attention they are getting.

    This may piss off the stupid people, but I think it’s true: Stupid people marry stupidier people then they procreate stupid people.

    These people are proof that evolution can go in reverse.

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    • I also want to say, that authors have also been discouraged to even comment on a review or even say thank you for one.

      A few weeks ago, an author thanked a reviewer and was pounced on on Twitter, and told she’s not supposed to comment on reviews.

      I was looking in my author hand book of all the rules and regulations and couldn’t find this rule, so, the hell with it, I thank reviewers.

      I thank even the bad reviews and just say I’m sorry the story didn’t work for them, but I hope my projects in the future will work, and then I make recommendations of other books they may enjoy instead.

      I even suggest if they bought a paperback and really hated it that they could send it back for a refund, something a lot of people don’t realize they can do.

      There is an unwritten “rule” that we shouldn’t engage with our readers. A lot of us do, and we enjoy it. Besides, I never listen to phantom rules.

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        • You like me, you really like me? (insert Sally Field’s body language and squeal here) LOL

          I’ve been told I shouldn’t be thanking reviewers or interacting so much with readers. You could ask my husband, I rarely listen to anybody who tries to boss me around.

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      • Well, Selena, I love talking to you, about books or pasta, or whatever! I greatly appreciated your thank you for my review! <3

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        • I love talking to you all. :)

          Especially about pasta, books, KFC (inside joke, I’ll have to share with you sometime LOL) home-made cosmetics, dolphin sex, freakishly funny behavior….the list is endless. LOL

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          • OMG– you managed to work KFC into all of this. AWESOME! I drove past KFC and thought of you, swinging yogi ;)

      • Talking with writers has been one of the things that has gotten me more excited about books. I have one author friend who helped me a great deal when my Dad died, she just had a new book come out – even though I had an ARC, I went out on release day and bought a bunch of copies and handed them out to people.

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        • I know what you mean, mceckk. When I was taking care of my dad years ago, I passed the nights in the hospital reading books, and got hooked on Carly Phillips books. I emailed her just to say thanks for helping me get through some difficult nights and the nurses thanked her took, as I shared the books.

          I never expected her to write back to me. She wrote back and was so kind and supportive.

          A few years later I met her at a book signing and thanked her again for the hours of enjoyment. She remembered my situation and when I told her my dad had died, she was truly touched and was so kind.

          It was then that I knew that I wanted to write as well, and hope that I can somehow put a smile on someone’s face who may be going through what I went through.

          Now I’m getting all teary eyed.

          I’m hormonal. LOL

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          • Thank you Selena, I read a book recently that actually made me put it down and go do something I had been putting off since my Dad died. The character in the book I identified with had been putting off a task too and when he did the task it gave me courage – wrote that author that night.

            Darn RM now as I write posts I am checking my spelling, grammar and punctuation.

          • LOL Ladybug, I forgot all about gardening, and making pulled pork in the slower cooker.

            KFC will never the same for either us. Good thing I never liked that chicken.

      • Hmmm, if you’re not supposed to engage with your readers, then why do all the author websites have a ‘contact’ email addy?
        If I contact a writer w/ a question, I would like a response. BTW… I wrote to Maya Banks 8 months ago and asked a question. Was so disappointed not to hear from her, then last week, I got a reply w/ an apology for being so late in answering!! I was impressed.
        I can imagine what Kate Douglas would have to say to those to say “don’t engage w your readers”! She has been a big influence on me to keep reading, and looking for the good writers :)

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        • Thanks, Lady G. I answer all reader emails, and I also try to help aspiring authors who email and ask for advice, example: I had one today, from a young writer who wanted to know how to find an agent, as she had finished her book and felt it was ready for an agent to look at it.

          It doesn’t take much time to send her an email with some URL’s and direct her in the right direction.

          Sometimes, it takes us longer to respond, but I think most authors eventually do answer their reader’s emails.

          Unless of course you’re Stephen King or someone like that, I think it would be impossible to keep up with emails.

          The interaction I’m talking about that is discouraged, is for us to go on a review site once a review is posted and interact with the readers. It’s an “unwritten” rule that has been going around, but thankfully, most of us ignore it and do what we feel is right.

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      • I’m with you. I always than reviewers, and have had some interesting discussions with a few who didn’t like my books that have led to online friendships I really value.

        And besides, those stupid rules are made to be broken.

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        • Hi, Kate, I remember the first time I went on a review blog and thanked the reviewer, I got an email and was reprimanded about the “rules.”

          Well, my rule is to be polite, there’s not enough of it as it is, and it’s always much more fun when you break certain rules anyway.

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          • I love talking to the authors of books I read! I get really excited when they talk back!!

  26. Let’s see…I take which ever arm rest i want. I, however, don’t go to the movies all that often. My two little trolls (children) keep me busy.
    As for the other, i don’t know why ppl have to go to such great lengths to be dicks. I don’t get it. Why go to such extravagant bullshit just to screw with ppl. There is so much hate and discontent in the world as it is, …why ? Why, do it that far. I think if ppl have taken the time to write a book, good or bad, they put so much of themselves into that you should give them credit for that.
    Idk, maybe tomorrow they will get hit by a bus.

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  28. Thank you RM for the best post about this issue I’ve seen! As always gave me a laugh and, oh then, your turtle-giraffe review cracked me the F up!

    And how does your wife take both of your armrests? Is she in your lap?

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  29. Readers are smart and they know a well written review that someone took a lot of time and effort to write, when they see one. And then there are those some people who apparently haven’t written anything since their high school term paper confuse a review with an outline and put out a five page incoherent piece of shit that reads like it was written on a bar napkin. I don’t want to know every detail, I just want to know if it has interesting characters, a plot and a lot of hot sex. I can pretty much figure the rest out from there.

    I don’t care about the armrest, just don’t hit me in the head with it when you pull it down

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    • I agree, Heidi. As a reader though, I never look at reviews until after I finish the book.

      I read the excerpt, blurb, and first chapter if it’s available and then make my decision. I used to read reviews first, but then some people put spoilers in the reviews and it would ruin the story for me. That really pisses me off, especially if it’s a suspense/thriller I’ve been waiting to read. I do not want to know who did it, I want to figure it out for myself.

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      • I hear you Selena, I do the same thing, read the review after to see if I agree or not. I just started your book today by the way. Snickers bar and PMS, I love it! :-)

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    • Heidi– ditto on the first paragraph. The last sentence nearly killed me. I choked on my rice cake and peanut butter and no one is awake to save me. That was hilarious! 8O

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  30. For people who claim to be anti-bullying, they seem to have taken this into the realm of stalking. I’m on GR alot but had never seen anything like this. I’ve seen negative reviews but rarely ones that attacked the author. I hate to write a negative review but sometimes you just have too. I think ( and hope) that I write them constructively and the author can use it to improve their writing It’s ironic that some books I have bought and read because of a negative review . Someone complains there’s to much sex? I’m all like WoooHooo sign me up!

    I’m right handed so I always use the right side cup holder/armrest

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      • They probably think irony has to do with laundry.

        I hope people don’t visit that website, they don’t need the traffic or exposure.

        They should get a room with the people they have an issue with, share a case of beer and duke it out, the old fashion way, and stop giving our genre a hard time.

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  31. Mr. RM: I’ve written a few reviews in my past but I will mend my ways starting today, and, I will behave like the little, good, reader that I am. After all, I’m still studying the language, and I haven’t even taken my redaction course.
    And you can have any armrest that you are able to wrest from my kids, who always come with me to the movies.

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  32. a couple of things – i don’t get how goodreads works, and i signed up for it then i was navigating it and it was just too much work. plus then everyone knows what i’m reading. its like TMI land. I read about this kerfuffle on a couple of writer group talks and from those blablabla pontifications I gathered some mean people were writing nasty reviews and then the writers they snark reviewed finally got po’d enough to do a revenge of kan them or something. So I don’t want to know anymore about it. But seriously, i have never met a mean published writer. I mean, look how wonderful and generous Selena and Kate and Marquita are to share their wisdom with readers and unpub’d. Role models for when I grow up. Anyhoo, I’m getting rather sentimental here so let me finish by saying, yes, RM, there actually is movie theatre etiquette: After purchasing popcorn with butter without being asked and a box of milk duds, twizlers or good n’ plenty, you escort your date to a row toward the upper back. that far away gives you the opportunity to sit on an end seat without viewing degradation. Your date goes in first and takes the second seat, thereby leaving you with a left arm to its own rest. Your other arm should snake around the date’s shoulders but should not make content until 5 minutes after the lights dim, thereby allowing your date to lean on, and hopefully for you, to the left. In the event you can not obtain the end row seat, esp during a crowded batman premiere, you are permitted to use your manly powers and go elbow dominant, either right or left, to ascertain and protect your territory from the unwashed. Another good strategy is to buy a drink and keep it in the middle rest which will inhibit your date from using it thereby setting precedent for you to take it before the drink is consumed. Your date may hang her purse on the side away from you, thereby establishing her zone. Coats (for those in northern climes) should be left open and draped behind the shoulders (in case the a/c is too much or there’s not enough heat). well… you asked.

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    • Wow. I am truly impressed. Seems like a lot of rules to watch a movie with a hot guy, ya know? Probably why I’ve been to all of three movies in theaters since 1990…

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    • speaking of manners in theatres – mass shooting in denver last nite at the batman movie – OMG. And people wonder why I read romances – because real life stinks sometimes.

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      • Good post, Trudy. I find Goodreads hard to navigate. I put up a page there, but not very active on it.

        I heard about the shooting. People are seriously demented. I agree with you, they should read more romances and have more sex. That should induce some happy endorphins.

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        • I love Goodreads and use it everyday. I ALWAYS read the reviews and sometimes even the last page! I’m terrible I know, but with so much out there to read I don’t want to read a book I am not going to like! It is wasted time….and I try to NEVER read a book that does NOT have a happy ending!

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          • Tracy, I use GR too and love it. If a book doesn’t have a happy ending I get seriously irritated and want to throw it across the room.

  33. ***For the record, because you all don’t know me that well yet, i love my kids to death. Even though i call them trolls. LOL. They are my life. Ask LG, she will agree. My daughter LOVES LG! :)

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    • Don’t believe her. She beats her kids daily :grin: She also reprimands her dogs by dragging them by their ear! and chases the kids around the coffee table on Sundays.
      Her kids are the happiest kids I’ve met yet. Unless they are tired, bored, cranky. In other words, they are Normal. All this from a demented lady tortures dogs and small children :grin:

      You know I’m just kiddin’. Her kids really are the greatest! I get neck hugs from ‘em when they see me :)

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      • Miss Abby Loves her some LG! And in my house we speak in English accents (just for fun) and Abby asks for Dr.Parker in her English accent all the time . Its really quite cute. :)

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  34. First of all I don’t like mean people so well done RM. I love smokey and the bandit I have had a crush om Bert Renolds sence I was 13 lol saw him in the man who loved Cat Dancing. Sisco sucks at movie review I always like the shows he doesn’t, my grammer sucks can I stay any way lol.
    I would set on the end so you know where to put your arm. chocolate almonds is my candy to movies.
    But most the time we go to the drive inn two movies for the price of one.

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  35. Finally! Somebody who recognizes these modern day heroes and heroines. Thank you for pointing how much they need to be praised, as opposed to worrying about, I dunno, global warming, and all the other stuff you mentioned. 4 stars and two smiley faces.

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  36. “…she went full bitch and announced it was TOO tart. We need to fuck her up.”

    LMFAO. This post was classic Remy. I love how you say things by saying the exact opposite. I’m not even sure the term “sarcasm” can be used for what you do. It’s so beyond that. I suppose since you’re a super-hero and all it could be amplified as a super power: Super Sarcasm. Yeah, I like the sound of that.

    Thanks for driving home the ridiculousness that is this group with your Super Sarcasm, Remy. You’re one-of-a-fucking-kind. Don’t ever change.

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    • Hey, Gina– do you know what the first thing I thought when I woke up today was? RELEASE DAY! Congratulations! My aunt Martha will be so happy ;) .

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      • Your soooo right LB! We need to be practicing all day to click the ” Buy Now” button on Amazon for Seducing Cinderella as soon as it appears……. :8):
        Good morning Lady Bug! Have an appt for a haircut, am up early too!

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        • Hey, Pat! I got my hair cut 3″ yesterday (mostly because a certain Manbug made fun of my hair :) ). I love hair appointments. I already checked on Gina’s book first thing this morning. I know she said she would let us know, but I was too excited. It’s like Christmas morning :) .

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      • Is that better or worse than naming a non-fucking ferret after you? I just need to clarify for the next time we buy a fish and I name it Hug… oops I mean Matador.

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      • But RM, you have to talk to her today!! She’s all nervous and excited about release day for Seducing Cinderella!! She’s been with us from the beginning. Remember when she got her first contract!!?? She named you Remy! In case any newcomers want to know…that’s Remy (Dennis Quaid) from The Big Easy. YUM!
        :cool:

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          • Yeah– I got that she named a ferret after you. It wasn’t that difficult to decipher the hieroglyphics. I was referencing the ferret’s sexual activity or lack thereof.

        • Hey, being a ferret is better than nothing at all. And I happen to LIKE ferrets! If I wanted to insult you I would’ve made you a pet cockroach. ;) And Pat, there seems to be some confusion among the BBLs about where his name came from. I gave it to him, that’s true, but I’ve never seen this Big Easy movie you guys always talk about. I just came up with a name that was similar phonetically with the RM initials. ;)

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          • well, i like to think of him as Remy when i’m writing his fictional life. in our REAL life here, he’s just RM to me

          • I believe if someone cared enough to read that far back in posts, you would find that I made the Dennis Quaid reference. Gina started calling him Remy. Some one said something about the cartoon rat named Remy and I suggested that they replace that image with Dennis Quaid. I am not often kind and complimentary to RM so I would like credit for the one time I was. Thank you.

          • I thought we talked about hunky Dennis Quaid when you came up with the name!! Gina…you HAVE to see the movie!!!!

          • I knew we talked about it….thanks Diane!! I was afraid I had an out of body experience…. :shock:

  38. RM– it is nice to see that you finally have your priorities straight. It’s about time. I am all in for castigating people with poor grammar and rampant misspelling. There is only one problem. Since I started hanging out with you, two things have happened: 1) I have developed a very serious allergy to the question mark (it’s so bad I started carrying an Epi-pen). 2) Before you, I was an eagle eye with catching the grammatical errors and misspelling. Now it’s as if I am so caught up in whatever it is you are ranting about that I don’t even notice them. You broke me ;) .

    Right now, I couldn’t give a shit about the stupid armrest. I have bigger problems. MB took my pillow last night and tried to give me his sad, little squished pillow. When I laid down to go to sleep, I noticed that something was horribly wrong and discovered that bastard’s treachery. Let’s just say that I got my pillow back. We’re cool now– Ginger stabbed him and now we’re even ;) .

    I know you love it when I am nice to you so I will end by saying that you are totally right and the idiots are wrong. A book about turtle sex is on the horizon– keep the faith.

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  42. Right on, RM!

    I’m back here cheering you on. I’m out of witty responses this morning because a friend of mine did something horrible to another friend of mine, and I’m just blown away at the awfulness of the whole situation.

    Oh, and I’m a lefty, so if you sat on the right, you could have the right armrest.

    My question is who holds the popcorn?

    This is even more important than which forking arm rest because you cannot, absolutely cannot set that twenty gallon popcorn container on the floor and then eat any of it without feeling uncertain about germs. See, we rarely go to the movie, but my hubby refuses to hold the popcorn and thinks it’s fine on the floor. This is a real dilemma for me.

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  43. Hi RM!
    I read about that vigilante effort you described and it is ridiculous and a bit scary!
    Having said that, however, I so know authors who are scared sh**less of Goodreads due to certain reviewers who seem bent on author destruction just for fun! I’ve seen it myself!
    As writers, can and should do nothing but grow a thick skin and learn to take the bad as well as the good (and just hope there’s a crapload more good!)
    As for the armrest- just keep your damned hands in your lap!

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    • I know there are nasty people out there you want to hurt authors but what these people are doing isn’t the answer. And I can’t keep my hands in my lap because it leads to—-nevermind

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    • Hey, Nancy, glad you made it over here. I forgot to mention, DO. NOT. EVER. drink anything while reading El Matador’s blog posts.

      I had clean OJ and water off my monitor and keyboard a few times.

      He makes me laugh harder than a few glasses of cranberry-vodka drinks in Vegas, and you know what that does to me. LOL

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  45. I hate reviews (except your, RM – you’re the only honest reviewer out there and I read all of the books you review)…but it’s like Trip Advisor – hotels write crappy reviews about other hotels so their hotel sounds better. I feel the same about most book blogs. About movies – my personal favorite is “Deliverance” and everybody hates that movie. I have watched it a gazillion times at home. I watch on my loveseat so unless you want to join me on it I cannot offer you an armrest. And when I do go to a movie I buy a Coke for the pint of rum I have in my purse.

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  46. OMG – just heard about the theater shooting in Colorado – now we have to have a fear of movie theaters??? My heart goes out to all of the people who were there just to enjoy a good film and the injured and their families. Too many f***ing crazies out there.

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  47. When RM posted that “Giving it Up by Amber lin was “Fucking Hot” that was really all the endorsement I I needed. I took him at his word and downloaded it and I’m glad I did. It ended up being one of the best books I’ve read all year. So I really think it just depends on who is writing the review and if they have any credibilty. These people that are so mad about these reviews should realize that even though mass reviewing isn’t perfect, authors can benefit from this format as well. For any negative reviews, they receive there are usually good review to counter act them. and if the book is good, it will standup on it’s own merit.

    And I still remember the days when everyone, me included, wanted a black Trans Am

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  48. Oh god happy Friday!! I didn’t have time to look at all the other comments but you made me laugh out loud at work yet again!!! I am all for not having someone dictate to me what is good or bad. The worst part is that the more hype something gets, the more I resist it. To that effect I have not read any of the Twilight books, never watched the whole Titanic movie, the The Steig Larrson or 50 Shades of anything!

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  49. All I can say is people who set out to be shitty and mean, need to get lives. Authors work hard and dammit show a little respect.

    Talk about timing (like 10 mins ago). I just got a thank you and the next in the series from an author that I didn’t give a stellar review to (2.5). I gave my reasons and pointed out the great qualities.

    It’s petty and wrong. I just get the desire to bash other people – I hope karma pays them a visit!

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  50. So all day I have this image of a turtle just plowing away on this giraffe, then slowly crawling all the way up her neck, whispering in her ear, “I want to fuck your brains out”, which isn’t hard because giraffes have tiny heads and little brains, then slowly working his way back down, and going at it again. Why do you insist on putting these pictures in my mind?! :-?

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    • LOLOLOL
      Diane: Don’t you think this turtle could make it to the “most tortured hero of the year” category? It deserves something for its efforts even if it is “emotionally distant”. After all, the “book” got 4 and a half stars, plus a smiley.

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    • LOL that is the same vision I have except he says “does that feel good baby cause there is more of that in 15 minutes when I get back there”

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    • Diane & Grettel (I faintly see someone else’s comments, but can’t make them out because we aren’t speaking)– I laughed so hard reading these comments. I’m not sure I can go back to the zoo without that poor, tired, overworked turtle coming to mind every time I see a giraffe. I wonder how long this whole turtle/giraffe copulation takes. Trying to get turtles to cross the road takes forever. Imagine poor little Timmy Turtle climbing up Gina Giraffe’s long neck (sorry, Gina, my kids have a book named “Gina Giraffe”). You have distance and elevation and gravity. It really is a tortured love story.

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  51. Hey, Kate Douglas speaks – at Blame It On The Muse!
    About love and always wanting to be home before dark. Is she as concerned about werewolves as I am???

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  52. Fantabulous article! Loved it, wanna marry it.

    You can have either arm rest, I’ve gotten use to not using them. The other recommendation I have for you is to get the DBox seats. They are separated from the seat next to them due to them rumbling and moving during the movie. They are incredibly awesome!

    Could you also please add to your vendetta people who block the intersection during heavy traffic so that you can’t go when your light turns green? Fucking hate those people.

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  53. I am seriously bummed about the tragedy in Colorado. I used to drive by that theatre when I lived there. It is a rough part of town, especially after dark, but thats no excuse. There are alot of good people that live there too (nothing compares to Vegas IMO) Colorado just seems to get the crazies, there have been several such stupid murders as this in the last 10 years. Very very sad :cry:

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    • I am saddened and bummed out to say the least, I read the description of a witness to what happened and he described a cop carrying a little girl who wasn’t moving, and I lost it. I don’t know what drove the piece of shit who did this to do it, if he thought he was going to be famous or something or had another agenda, but I hope I don’t hear anyone telling me how he was a victim. With Columbine at least there was some sense to it, as twisted as it was, with a couple of loners who had been bullied seeking revenge, as horrible as that was (and I am not codoning it or blaming the victims), but this one just seems completely senseless. I think there are questions to be asked about this, serious ones, but right now all I can say is I am saddened and shocked that a human being could kill and maim so many, and if it was to become famous, God help us. Maybe the answer in a case like this is to not give out the guys name, to keep him anonymous and not give him what he seeks, same with other cases. The was an episode of NCIS (one of my guilty pleasures, I love David MaCullum) where they basically handle it like that, the guy who was the serial killer gets branded a terrorist and packed away without any publicity, no name, no information.

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    • Made me sick too. Senseless killing just leaves an indescribable feeling. I am torn about the press – delving into his persona might help someone recognize another situation – but at the same time we need to not make it seem appealing for a person on the edge looking for a copycat.

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  54. Heidi– I hope you see this way down here because those little boxes are just too tiny after a while. Thank you for the support of MY new show. I am not going to let the other person have top billing. He might get mentioned in those tiny credits that no one watches at the end of the show.

    I am still so disappointed that your armrest comment went unnoticed. It’s like finding out that Superman can’t really see through walls.

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  55. You can have both armrests as long as I get chocolate!

    Funny blog, I was always told not to speak unless I could say something nice, never managed it with my siblings though!

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  56. While I share the thought that creating a website to teach how to write reviews and such is pretty stupid, I also can understand what drove people to do it. It is the same lack of civility and discourse you see elsewhere, places like Goodreads have been invaded (for lack of a better term) for the same douchebags most people despise, the ones who turn everything into a hate filled rant or seem to think that everything is war or something, you hear them on talk radio, on blog sites, and especially in politics, where instead of arguing about whether certain policies are good or bad, it turns into smear tactics, racial epithets and the like, and it is both maddening and sad. I swear a lot of these people are seriously mentally ill, they can’t discern fantasy and fiction from reality, they are like the soap fans who would go up and hit a soap star known for playing villains, because they were so horrible (thankfully, not too many people are like that, or Bruce Dern, James Woods and Christopher Walken would have been shot by someone like that *lol*).

    I don’t think people have to write without using profanity (not that I ever use it, uh uh), or delicately say they don’t like something, but I am not talking about that, it is when reviews turn into rage filled rants, up to including threatening the author or calling them all kinds of names because something in the story set them off.

    My wife is reading a series of books ( I think it is a series) set in a dystopian world where the main character is drug addicted (but apparently otherwise honorable), in the society churches have fallen by the wayside but a kind of Wiccan-y religion of some sort, because of some revealed truth that turned out to be true or some such..in the city the main character lives in the city is ruled by some sort of organized crime or gang syndicates..you get the idea.

    My wife was shocked (she is a nice person) at the reviews she read, not that they didn’t like it (she was surprised she liked it, she is more into lovey lovey kinds of romances), but how nasty and vitriolic they were. All these people calling her a satanic slut because the churches in the story had disappeared, or because the protagonist was a drug addict or because in the story the US no longer existed, you get the drift. I am talking violent reactions, slut was the nicest thing some of these reviewers said, it was personal and ugly.

    I can understand not liking a story, not liking the characters, but this is taking it personally, and it is way, way outside the bounds of what a review is.

    The only thing I can think of is that people have parted from their moorings and totally can’t separate real world things from fiction and are in this mode of paranoiac…I really would be afraid to meet these people in real life.

    This isn’t the only place I have seen this, there are erotic fiction sites out there that I read ocassionally and you see the same thing. A lot of these stories can be emotionally wrenching (I think I love torturing myself with some of them), they deal with issues infidelity and swinging and such, but there are these anonymous posters who go absolutely into a rage when someone writes stories like this, or the ones who make a fetish out of a wife sleeping with other people, or where they reconcile, and it is amazing, author’s get death threats, and you wonder about the posters. They say things like the main character should be tracked down and executed (as if they were real), or you get these lectures on biblical morality, the sacredness of the marriage covenant (even where it is a couple who have an open marriage story or otherwise consensual),…like, dude, this is an erotic literature site, what the heck are you doing here is you are so religious? When people say the author and his family should be exterminated, it is over the line.

    On the other hand, if I ever get around to publishing my book I won’t get upset with reviews like RM wrote, because I probably deserved it, I guarantee you it is probably a piece of drivel an orangutan with half its brain removed could do better than…that is being honest. But telling me I should be tied down and force fed white castle hamburgers until my stomach exploded and produced the next great thing after Justin Bieber, that is not nice…..

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    • Ever the yang. I like you a lot njBill.
      There is always another side of the story but that doesn’t change the fact that extremes are never good.
      I read books, I enjoy the characters, I taste the plot and I feel the passion in the story, in the details and the dialogues. I love books but I can’t help but think how empty is the life of some people.

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    • Nobody is defending those mean, vicious, heartless, worthless piece of shit reviewers. But njbill, as horrible as their behavior is, they did not post names, addresses, photos, and other identifying information. The “stop the GR bullies” people did do that. They crossed a line that could lead to physical harm or worse. I agree that something needs to be done about vicious reviewers. But this is not acceptable. They crossed a line. However “noble” their motives might have been, they crossed a line. That is what everyone is upset about.

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      • Dianne-
        I wasn’t aware that they were doing that, I am not familiar with the website in question, I was talking simply about why someone would be upset about the reviews on Good Reads. Publishing names and phones numbers and such is atrocious, I would never, ever defend that, having had to deal with that in my own life (I once wrote an op ed piece in a local paper responding to an idiotic editorial on gay people that had to be responded to)….at the time my phone number was public, and I had people calling the house, my young son answering the phone and some “Christian” screaming at a 4 year old “Your fucking family is going to hell, I am going to send you that way, you fucking pinko atheist garbage”..so I know what that means.

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      • I agree, Diane and I think the only thing a writer can do is totally ignore those reviewers. Readers are intelligent enough to see the snark and nastiness in some reviews and just ignore them. Just like pirate sites, there is not much we can do, except ignore, because giving them a lot of attention, will only breed more of this kind of stupidity.

        When I see an author post a pirate link, I cringe. Because she/he has just advertised an illegal downloading site, same with this blog. If they don’t get a reaction, they will go away. (Pink glasses are still here, but lately, I haven’t been wearing them often).

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        • The author of the series I was talking about, who had received a lot of really horrible reviews was horrified when she heard what was going on with the other site and she basically told people she didn’t need defending, that doing what they were was wrong.

          There are two answers when someone goes over the line, either you ignore them, or you answer them (Justice Brandeis had a classic statement regarding speech, he said that the answer to so called “bad speech” wasn’t censorship, it was burying the ‘bad speech’ with ‘good speech’. Personally I would save that for where it is important, not for some moron who gets off on being a nasty piece of shit, I think ignoring is much better….when I see reviews I think are horrible, I write an empassioned review of the book (if I have read it), good or bad, but in a way that makes it clear I liked or didn’t like the book….

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    • “The only thing I can think of is that people have parted from their moorings and totally can’t separate real world things from fiction”

      My take is there is such a fine line between entertainment and real life, a fine line between a celebrity and a “normal” person. That makes anyone fair game. Face it Books are making a come back, my town library is seeing a huge increase in loaned materials. And authors are making an attempt to reach more readers, and making themselves more accessible.
      The constantly plugged in society we are fostering is making it too simple to connect and make your opinion known. Sometimes people write and think later. Letting your opinion fly is not a new thing – but letting it out without respect is new. Civility needs to make a come back.

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      • I agree..but I don’t think that is coming back any time soon, there is too much hay to be made with that incivility, whether it is people of the ilk of Glenn Beck or Keith Obermann or the various ranters on talk radio….frankly, incivility sells…..

        What has surprised me is the religious right hasn’t gone after E-books or been more vocal about adult romance novels and what they seem to be doing to sex lives…I expect at some point one of the usual suspects in congress will be pushing for ratings on e-books or warning labels or the like….or some variation on the old postal codes for the internet, to make downloading ‘smut’ an offense…..

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        • Incivility sells. Sigh. And the art of discussion, debate, and disagreement is gone. When did compromise become a dirty word? 7 billion of us on this rock and we just can’t seem to get along.

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        • my wish is to pass civility and respect on to my children. I am constantly saying, it is more important how you treat them, than how you are treated.

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          • I think I blew that with my son when I introduced him to being a NY Jets fan (american football to you folks who think a football shouldn’t be touched by hands:). Civility and respect dont’ go with the Jets.

          • Oh bill Civility doesn’t count for sports fans in their own homes.
            Let’s not start on sportsmanship – I have zero tolerance for young athletes thinking they are the next big thing and don’t have to respect anyone. My kids know if the coach doesn’t bench you you better sit down cause Mom is coming over to do it for them!

  58. *sigh* RM, I’m so disappointed that you ignored my post after I spent all that time researching when the original post about correcting grammar was posted that I’m reposting it. The yesterday comments, not the April post. And really, I haven’t corrected anything of yours since then. Do you want me to start again? I’d be happy to, you know. Plus I have a disciplinary ruler just itching to be used on your, uh, knuckles.

    TheRomanceMan
    on July 19, 2012 at 10:15 pm said:
    Cris I remember way back when when you corrected everything I wrote. I will appoint you head of the grammar police.

    TheRomanceMan
    on July 19, 2012 at 10:24 pm said:
    Oh Cris don’t make me dig through the comments. But I am grateful, you made me better, not much better but a little

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    Cris Anson
    on July 19, 2012 at 10:43 pm said:
    I found it, darling. April 6. It was when you were dying of Nyquil and missed the toilet when you peed. And probably didn’t wash your hands either.

    And the only thing other than “your” and “you’re” that I caviled about was that you didn’t use a capital letter to spell Cris, which is respectful of the other person.

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  59. So– I feel the need to give a shout out to the author who occupies the #1 spot on my Favorite Authors List. Drum roll, please…….. SELENA ROBINS! I have a sneaking suspicion that you may be on Manbug’s favorite authors list, too, since he expects me to live up to my new role;).

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  61. Off topic, but while its quiet, I’ve been amusing myself reading the archives the past couple of weeks. Every time I laugh my kids ask what’s so funny. They’re getting tired of my of my answer, “Don’t worry about it, you won’t understand it anyway”. Earlier today I read the post about nipples. Got to the first comment, from Stephanie I think where she said she bit her husband’s nipple while he was asleep and he jumped and yelled out. I laughed so hard at that my daughter told me to “keep my laughs to myself” and NLOL. Which I thought was so ironic because I am daily hit with a sonic barrage of:
    * kids fighting
    *my very loud son and his loud friends
    *SpongeBob SquarePants
    *kids fighting
    *One Direction
    *my daughter talking about One Direction
    *did I mention kids fighting?
    And so they are seriously complaining about me laughing? So now when I hang out here I get to irritate my kids too. Nice side benefit! :-)

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    • Steph, Love your post. Made me LOL. I will have to read about the nipple. Because you just mentioning it here made me laugh. :)

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    • Yep. That was me. I’ve tried to do it again since it was so funny, but it’s like he has nipple radar now. I get anywhere close to his nipples and he is immediately awake and alert! :D

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    • Steph– I totally agree. Cackling and making my kids look at me like I have lost my mind is one of the few forms of retaliation I have. My little ones are 8 and 4 so they haven’t quite reached the OMG-MOM-you’re-so-embarrassing stage yet. Although I think we may be very close with the older bug. He is horrified when MB and I dance in the kitchen while singing 80′s songs at the top of our lungs. Embarrassed or horrified– not sure which one, but I will take it :) .

      I remember that nipple comment and LOVED it. I haven’t worked up enough nerve to try it yet, but I have it tucked away for future use.

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      • Yes Enjoy this time LB, mine are 11. Boy has regaled me to high fives on when he gets off the field or the court. I can’t coach is basketball team, and the only nickname I can use is the first letter of his name. But I got him a book he wanted from the library (John Ritter about baseball no less) and I got a hug. Girl still likes me around and begged me to go on this big GS campout – so girl bug might hold out longer.

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      • LB I love that. I take it a step farther with my 12 y.o. daughter. The grocery store where I shop plays great music. I will dance and sing in the isle when I shop with her and she is mortified lol. I don’t really do it while anyone is looking but just the thought of someone seeing is enough to make her die of embarassment. Messing with my kids is one of the joys of my life haha!

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  63. From the “Bad Math” post:

    Stephanie on April 18, 2012 at 11:24 pm said:
    This is completely random but one night I couldn’t sleep because my husband was snoring so loud. So I pinched his nipple and he yelled, jumped about 6 feet in the air and almost fell off the bed. It was hysterical.

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  64. Hi, just kind of hanging out to see if Gina’s book launches by midnight. If not, going to bed. RM, I sent you an e-mail with the review….official notice !
    :shock:

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  65. Yay!!! Just got my copy of Gina’s book! the cover is gorgeous! It’s only 8pm here in NZ, so I have plenty of reading hours ahead of me :)

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  66. Our very own Gina’s book is here!!!!!!!!
    Go to the top of this page, click Links, click Shop Amazon, and type in: Seducing Cinderella by Gina L. Maxwell. And then buy it!!! NOW!!!

    :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

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  67. YES!!!!! It is excellent, and the cover is AWESOME!
    Our little Gina is going to be a star! We met her here RM, so I guess you get some credit. So happy for her, maybe she’ll stop by. :shock:

    Love you Gina… :)

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  69. I love the post and as usual laughed. :) But it is scary to think that some people actually have the time to police others reviews. It’s also sad that someone would trash another person on their hard work. When there are so many other ways of saying “I don’t like it.” I was actually stunned.
    I hog both armrests….but you can have the popcorn. I loved Smoky & the Bandit!

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    • ….and I get that they have the right to do that. I also don’t understand why someone would hunt down the people who write super negative reviews. It brings way to much attention to the negative. They have too much time on their hands….give them something to do…please! maybe they can go watch Smoky & the Bandit!

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  70. Well, RM…..you are as always adorable and bullish – and still THE MATADOR. Sorry I was late to the party but I had to make a quick trip to the Mohave Desert and 4 days of 110 degree heat was enough for me.
    One thing I’d like to say about reviews is this: I’ve not always been the best reviewer but I’m working on improving them. I do realize that they help the writer if they’re constructive rather than overly critical.
    Thanks for the witty blog entry.

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