Bam pointed me to this delicious bit of absurdity today: Swedish dude writes a scathing review for a book that was never written.
As far as stupid and utterly pointless asshole moves, this ranks as one of the stupidest and most pointless I’ve read in a while. The paragraph below is possibly my favorite:
The newspaper has made an “unreserved apology” to Mattsson. Lundberg’s apology was more qualified. He told Svensk Bokhandel magazine that he had “got worked up in advance about Britt-Marie Mattsson because I detest her so very greatly. But let’s hope the book is published so I get the chance to say it for real.”
Hee! Dude sticks to his guns, you gotta give him that. “Fine, you caught me this time. But I have every faith that you will still SUCK THE ALMIGHTY WANG and I will stick it to you good when the book finally comes out.”
I wonder how the editors let this slip by them, though? I would’ve thought that they’d check the book’s title and ISBN to ensure at least a smidgen of accuracy.
OK, the news story was funny, but the Swedish newspaper was hysterical! Did you see the Ikea ads?
Dang, now I’m missing Minnesota. Which in the middle of January is very strange indeed.
That was all kinds of awesome… especially since they had to get that dig in about reviewers just skimming books and they *loftily* knew all along!
Naw, dude, my favorite part was in the end when it said something like, “We’ve always suspected reviewers skim these books. Now we know they do! Sneaky bastards!”
Oh dear, I didn’t expect to see this story discussed at SBTN when I read it in DN! It’s all quite funny, especielly the guy’s utter refusal to apologize. The newspaper sacked him of course. The story goes something like he got a huge box of about 100 thriller/crime/detective novels to mass review and didn’t have time to read them all. The fact that he actually reviewed a nonexistent one makes me wonder how often he has reviewed existent one without actually reading them first… I mean, who can tell the difference from a sentence or two in a mass review?
Well even though he didn’t like the book, I bet Harriet Klausner gave it 5 stars.
Well played, AngieZ. Well played.
Laughing my ass off! You know, I think I’m going to take a life lesson away from this--all the good reviews, the reviewer clearly read my books. The bad ones? They obviously didn’t even crack the cover.
A website that reviews romance novels from a couple of smart bitches who will always give it to you straight. No bullshit. No gushing--unless the author really deserves it.
I’m with Leah. There are some people you canNOT critique. If your friend is gonna get butthurt/insulted, or hate you, or ignore you, do not waste your time. The letter writer’s friend sounds like one of ‘em.
Examples…
My father, a poli sci professor, is driven nearly insane by this every time he assigns papers...and yes, he marks them up with demands for source material citations and docks their grades
I know this is an old post,…
i also have kids krsylu, and cannot stand m/m but will read f/f at will hehe and this thread is out of control, shouldent we start a new one?
I was interested in this movie until I started seeing trailers. I keep expecting Edward to break out a little Right Said Fred.
From Creepy Stupid
Sometimes I’m reluctant to admit that I read romance, because of the stereotype (and my own horrible, horrible early experiences with some titles).
But I am a kajillion times more likely to admit to being a romance fan…
From Half Time Penalties
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