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Anne Rice (or someone who has the same name) is slagging Amazon reviewers of her book Blood Canticle by posting her own review of the book and then basically uploading one big paragraph that sounds just a smidgen unhinged. A choice bit:
But your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. And you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies. I'll never challenge your democratic freedom to do so, and yes, I'm answering you, but for what it's worth, be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you, especially those of you who post anonymously (and perhaps repeatedly?) and how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses.
You can read the whole thing if you want. Start here and then click through until you see the Anne O'Brien Rice comment (right now it's on the first click page). Now, it may be someone posing as Ms. Rice, but since it's using Amazon's "Real Names" authentication, it would have to be someone who has exactly the same name. And what are the odds.
Being an author myself, with books on Amazon, even, I have to admit it never really occured to me to use the Amazon comment system to go postal on my readers; while I guess it's admirable that Ms. Rice feels comfortable enough with her position in the world to slag her readers/critics in such a fashion, I don't imagine I will personally emulate such behaviour. Among other things, it encourages other people to chime in with snippy comments like:
Anne, get over yourself. Not everyone is going to like your writing, and furthermore, not liking it doesn't make them idiots, or inferior, or anything else. They don't like it. So what? Also, paragraph breaks are your friend, woman, even when you're just posting online. Please let them know you care by using them.
Clearly Ms. Rice needs to learn the first rule of responding to anything online: Please don't feed the trolls.
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Ok, I have read several of her books and she should be very glad that someone actually wants to read, let alone review, any of the dribble she is writing. Sorry, I know that she has many fans, but the fact that she needs to describe the most minute of details to the ignorance of basic plot.....spare me, I'd rather read anything else, including the comics (OK, lately better plot development than Rice).
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lucky fer us she is not a REAL vampire...well i will sleep wit me garlic necklace on tonite...just in case....:)
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Silence speaks volumes. And those in a professional positition are probably even more wise to not comment directly to their critics. But we're all human. I'm not going to go to the site and read any of it - more internet drama isn't high on my list tonight. LOL But Rice is a name I respect, even if I have outgrown her works. I'd have to say her last few books have been less than impressive... but personal and heated attacks against her? Come on... don't people have anything better to do?
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This is rather distrubing really, I mean.. I know Anne Rice has a slightly colourful outlook on life, but her behaviour here is positively unhinged, I'm not sure how valuable to real name tag is, the system could conceivably have been tampered with?
3/13/05 4:36 AM