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Damien J. Nash Reading Flux by Mark. R. Faulkner

27 Oct 2012, 07:31 PM | Post: #21

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RE: Unfair review

I believe it has been edited to a 2 star review and "cleaned up" so it doesn't appear as spiteful.

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LindaGruchy Reading The Chandelier Ballroom by Elizabeth Lord

27 Oct 2012, 07:32 PM | Post: #22

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RE: Unfair review

It looks as though the reviewer has removed the original along with the bickering, and replaced it, with the comment about downgrading it to 1 star missing. It's now 2 stars. Or perhaps Amazon removed it or asked him to moderate it. Who knows.

It's now not a mean review, just a tough one, though the comment about beginning, middle and endf is a bit ouchworthy... but is it justified? When there are reviews like this, it's best to grin and bear it with nothing more than thanking them for their effort. Everyone gets critical reviews and if they have a point, then fair enough (most, but not all of my critical reviews have a few reasonable points). It hurts, really hurts, but we just have to be thick skinned.

I've calmed down about the recent one I got, and it has upset me most of all of them because it's so astonishingly vitriolic but my sales have actuially improved for that book today, while his still languishes. In the long run, it probably won't have damaged your sales, and may have even helped in that people who don't like grim stories will know not to buy and be disappointed.

And some people with books with nothing but 1 star and 2 star reviews still seem to have a reasonable ranking.

One other thing to remember is that the reviewer might be a member on here.

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Jonathan Hill Reading Only the Innocent by Rachel Abbott

27 Oct 2012, 08:05 PM | Post: #23

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RE: Unfair review

Yes, the review has been amended to a two-star and has been edited. Also, all no-votes and comments have been removed so it looks like amazon did get involved (possibly at the request of the reviewer). I have no real issue with this now. The reviewer didn't like it and that's fair enough. Plenty of people have enjoyed it so it doesn't matter.
Rosen, I agree some people might score a book one star but I meant that I didn't deserve one star as an act of retaliation.
I see it as fair now. It's a bad review but there's no bitterness on display any more. I'm happy to leave it and move on.
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quaser Reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

28 Oct 2012, 06:03 PM | Post: #24

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RE: Unfair review

I couldn't find the review either, but I note that from the 13 reviews, you have an overall 4 star average. From a statistical perspective, the results give an almost perfect 'bell' distribution, albeit from quite a small sample. Jonny, you should be proud. You can't please everyone, and not everyone who reads what you write will like it, but take heart - at least they have read it. Better to be read and unliked, than not read and ignored.

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28 Oct 2012, 06:07 PM | Post: #25

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RE: Unfair review

Apparently reviews don't typically follow a bell curve. It's more likely to look like this:
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Can't remember where I read that, or I'd quote my source.
Reviewers are most likely to review a book that moved them - either for good or bad.

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quaser Reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

28 Oct 2012, 06:36 PM | Post: #26

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RE: Unfair review

Oh I don't disagree Rosen. People who are prepared to go to the trouble of writing a review are more likely to write it if it is a good one than a bad one, it's human nature. A few people are always going to take the opportunity to metaphorically biff someone up as there is no chance of any physical comeback on them - it may make them feel good in just the same way that writing a good review is good for the reviewers mental state too. The trick for an author, I assume, is to not take reviews too seriously. Look for the positives and learn that the old adage that you can't please all of the people all of the time, always applies.

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28 Oct 2012, 06:43 PM | Post: #27

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Indeed.

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28 Oct 2012, 07:04 PM | Post: #28

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RE: Unfair review

I agree, Quaser, you can't please everyone. As long as a reviewer explains why they didn't like a book, that's fine by me. What rattles me are websites that allow readers to simply give a star rating. A low rating with no explanation whatsoever is so frustrating!

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Jennie Lee Reading The Razor's Edge -- Somerset Maugham

29 Oct 2012, 12:10 AM | Post: #29

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(28 Oct 2012 07:04 PM)nicola.palmer Wrote: As long as a reviewer explains why they didn't like a book, that's fine by me. What rattles me are websites that allow readers to simply give a star rating. A low rating with no explanation whatsoever is so frustrating!

That annoys me, too, Nicola. I have 33 ratings for WHtP on Goodreads but only 9 reviews and the average star-rating there is 3.8.
On Amazon it's 4.3 (US) & 4.8 (UK).

I would love to know what the low-rating Goodreads readers didn't like about the book. One rated it one star without comment.

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29 Oct 2012, 09:27 AM | Post: #30

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RE: Unfair review

I use Goodreads as my personal library list. I rate every book I've finished, even the ones I don't like, as opposed to only reviewing the good ones on Amazon.
In order to keep track of all my books, I rate the ones I didn't finish as one stars and put a date of 100 years ago so they don't count towards my yearly goals.
Perhaps others are doing that.
Mind you, in the one star non-finishers I state I didn't finish it.

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