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Author Has Complete Meltdown Over 1 Star Review

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fluffydelusions said:
You aren't wrong but people will always 5* there own work. And tbh that 5* doesn't mean much when it's stacked up against thousands or millions of other peoples votes.
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So which speaks more confidence about your work? Giving it max rating on the hopes that it will get undue attention, or leaving the ratings to the whims of users and trusting that the natural rating will be good enough without your vote?
 
Haly said:
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From his goodreads profile.
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Few years later... freshly shaved...
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I am a graphist. 90% of my job is being told how shitty and awful it is. And I take it. Man what is wrong with that dude? Poor girl just reviewed his book and quite fairly, actually. I just don't get it.
 
Makonero said:
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4 Stars.
 
I just can't imagine how someone who actually managed to get published could take a single short internet review like that. It seems like he must have a mental illness or something.
 
Managed to see this little gem in an Amazon review his story by someone who apparently tried to give the book as much of a chance as possible. Assuming that the bolded quote is actually written in the acknowledgments... that's a bit creepy and not how I would wish to be acknowledged in a book, even as a joke.

I did make it through Chapter 4 and the end, but I admit to skimming a bit here and there--a rational person can hang about in purple-prose land only so long. But wait! There's more! We have the acknowledgments which are written in much the same style. One in particular, to a person named Steve, caught my eye and almost left me speechless for its sheer awfulness disguised as a sort of moronic middle school pubescent humor: "When we roamed the cobblestoned streets, fathers knew to lock their daughters inside their homes, for when they didn't we locked ourselves inside their daughters."
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Cyan said:
Aww, did they not archive the second page? That was the best part. His final post was an amazing epic rant about Hilary Clinton, the New York Times, and how the media is manipulating book reviews to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

Not even joking.
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Someone find it!
 
Authors really need to chill when it comes to reviews. I get a TON of 1 stars on Amazon. A lot of them are hilarious and are written by idiots.

I had one dude complain about a book having a cliffhanger (he expected a full book), even though I've put a huge disclaimer saying the novella is Part 1 out of 3, and ends on a cliffhanger.

One woman complained that my book had sex scenes, which was funny because the book is categorized under erotica (you can't search for them unless you purposely browse in that category)
 
Damn, son. I thought I had thick skin, bit some of those reviews (and posts in this thread) really burn, and theyÂ’re not even about something I did.

Clearly I was right to abandon my dreams of becoming a writer. I canÂ’t hack all that negativity, yo.
 
And this is why you should never be emotionally attached to your work. Don't get me wrong, you can like/love your work, but when your feelings for the work make it impossible to take any sort of criticism then you need to take a step back and hand the work to someone else.

The author also seems to be the sterling example of the culture we've been promoting for the last 20 years. The whole "no-one has to lose" thing that raises people to believe that any form of criticism is a personal attack.
 
ZeronosVega said:
Managed to see this little gem in an Amazon review his story by someone who apparently tried to give the book as much of a chance as possible. Assuming that the bolded quote is actually written in the acknowledgments... that's a bit creepy and not how I would wish to be acknowledged in a book, even as a joke.
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Wow what he said that just gross and kinda rapey.
 
Tertullian said:
I just can't imagine how someone who actually managed to get published could take a single short internet review like that. It seems like he must have a mental illness or something.
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He wasn't actually published, it was self-published. Anyone can write something and get it up on Amazon these days.
 
I know and work with people like this. They have their myopic perspective and will not let it go regardless of how reasonable the counter-point might be. They are coming at it with emotion and lack the type of empathy required to break free of the affront they feel they've been dealt. It's frustrating to engage them but the strength others have in dealing with them is the ability to move on.
 
Fiction said:
I kinda feel bad for him too, not because he got a 1* review but because he's obviously got some sort of untreated mental illness, and that makes me sad.
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Even though I think that there is a high likelihood of this being true, his responses are fucking hilarious. Maybe after a bit of self reflection on this incident, he might realise that he may need some help.

Makonero said:
HOW DARE YOU, this is assault, LIKE WIFE-BEATING

5-STARS is the only CIVIL thing to DO for my LIFE'S WORK
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3 1/2 Stars, feels derivative of his previous work.
 
So I looked at the second book he wrote in the series and the description is prefaced with this:

WARNING: This book contains sex, violence, gritty characters, dark magic, righteous indignation, life, death, and love. It is belligerent, like the Truth, for it wages constant war against falsities, erroneous dogma, willful ignorance, moral relativism, and lies. It serves the True Great Work, and is only meant for those who seek to understand Natural Law, how freedom and morality are directly proportional, and what it means to manifest into this realm as a sovereign.
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What the fuck man?

That would turn me off any author....I don't need to read pretentious garbage like that.
 
NervousXtian said:
He wasn't actually published, it was self-published. Anyone can write something and get it up on Amazon these days.
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If someone wants to read about a crazy published author look no further than Kathleen Hale who became so obsessed with one reviewer she stalked them and came up with a crazy theory that she was being catfished. She wrote an article published by the guardian that backfired immensely for her.
 
Dude sounds like he really does have some kind of mental issue. Persecution mania, idk. I'm afraid this dude will end up killing himself. I mean, you never know.
 
Ingueferroque said:
I don't think the meme-like character assassination is particularly funny..
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Yeah. Clearly two very different situations but its weird how we can lament a little girl killing herself because she was humiliated online for a bad haircut but laugh at a guy getting mobbed online. At the very least the guys unstable/has some delusions of grandeur but to make fun of a guy who put himself out there without even reading his work is just nasty. From Potato Salad to lynch mobs everyone just wants to be part of a group i guess.
 
Fiction said:
I kinda feel bad for him too, not because he got a 1* review but because he's obviously got some sort of untreated mental illness, and that makes me sad.
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Not everything is mental illness, some people are just fucking idiots and it's okay to laugh at them.

This guy 100% brought this on himself. Nobody is publishing his info or harassing him in real life (yet, and they should not).
 
Pretentious: having or showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be regarded as more impressive, successful, or important than they really are

That reviewer nailed it. 10/10
 
dude needs some serious help for that paranoia. I hope this doesn't drive him over the edge.


that imdb page though holy shit brutal lol.
 
Lol... I feel sorry for him. I guess he will learn his lesson to never reply to a review. Altough he will probably need to start fresh under a new pen name

brianmcdoogle said:
I Is this a 1 star product because we hate the person or because the thing in question is any good?
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I think goodreads is removing those? There was this complete meltdown among goodreads trolls like a year ago when the site cracked heavily on personal attacks, creating hate shelfs etc
 
Oh shit. If his book is half as good as some of his responses I'll have to check it out. 😃
 
It's a small detail, but I love how he is more accepting of the idea she is trying to destroy his career and ruin his life than he is of the idea she didn't like the book.
 
Fiction said:
I kinda feel bad for him too, not because he got a 1* review but because he's obviously got some sort of untreated mental illness, and that makes me sad.
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Exactly what I was thinking. The conversation thread gets less funny as his mental illness gradually grows more obvious.
 
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