tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post5860674992099932733..comments2024-03-29T00:47:12.051+00:00Comments on Biblibio: Around the Ferris wheelMeytal Radzinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-67237052445773333562010-05-08T21:35:40.951+01:002010-05-08T21:35:40.951+01:00Haven't read the book; don't plan to. But ...Haven't read the book; don't plan to. But I always find readers/reviewers/authors "feelings" about books interesting. Particularly when they say things which tend to ignore the fact that there's a great deal of variation amongst humans. <br /><br />Point in fact, I've seen people say that such-and-such Amazon review is fake because no one could possibly love (or hate) Book-X. As if we're all of one mentality. I mean some people who read it are 60 and others are 18. Some are in a good mood and some are miserable and ALL of this effects how we understand a book. <br /><br />So... so-what if some people are simplistic and don't get a book. Their reviews are pertinent to other simplistic people. The author should be glad for those negative reviews since they'll keep other simplistic minded people from reading it until their ready for it. (1 negative review instead of 20 negative ones ;)<br /><br />Great commentary.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01246673871167186207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-90240474568651097272010-05-07T10:11:18.457+01:002010-05-07T10:11:18.457+01:00I'm one of those people who really liked '...I'm one of those people who really liked 'And Then We Came to the End'--I actually found it quite moving. I was surprised at so many people not enjoying it. So far I've avoided 'The Unnamed' on the possibly foolish principle that, if I liked the first book and everyone else didn't, if they now life the second book, I probably won't.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-3945257595849596242010-05-04T08:32:11.808+01:002010-05-04T08:32:11.808+01:00I didn't like "Came to the End" at a...I didn't like "Came to the End" at all - who wants to read about problems with Microsoft Word? I thought this one was much better. On reflection I may have praised it a little too much - its good, but not brilliant in my viewTom Cunliffehttp://www.acommonreader.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-74353977905492695882010-05-03T20:18:47.108+01:002010-05-03T20:18:47.108+01:00You're right in saying that Ferris was arrogan...You're right in saying that Ferris was arrogant in his assessment of the people who reviewed his book. You cannot claim that a reader or reviewer read the book "wrong." In reading it is entirely up to the reader to have their own relationship with the book. Writing a book is one relationship with the material, and reading it is an entirely different one. Ferris needs to come to terms with this, even if he disagrees with their interpretations of his material.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-91370557249485349272010-05-03T17:29:34.785+01:002010-05-03T17:29:34.785+01:00I loved, loved, loved And Then We Came to the End ...I loved, loved, loved And Then We Came to the End and only liked The Unnamed. Although I think I may have liked Unnamed more than you. I think Ferris' chief complaint about some of the reviews of Unnamed was that the reviewers never seemed able to get over the difference in style between the two books. I think one even went so far as to say that Ferris found a great style/formula in his first book and he should stick with that. Which, now that I think about it, Ferris may not have interpreted correctly. Now I realize that the reviewer was probably not saying "I can't get over that this second book is so different" he may have been saying "you obviously can't write normally, so go back to the quirky stuff that you can get away with..."Thomas Hogglestockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284352537015457974noreply@blogger.com