Comments on: Fancy White Trash

By: strongly disagree

strongly disagree — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:15:34 +0000

Your friend Rachel was picking on an author and calling for a boycott when the author had done nothing wrong.

I’m glad she came to her senses and took the post down. There’s another one by someone in the LiveJournal booksellers community with threats to remainder the book and “accidentally” send it back to the publisher. Do you think that’s okay?

By: Court

Court — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:09:49 +0000

Okay seriously? person who won’t actually leave their name, but goes by both “hmmpf” and “strongly disagree”, PLEASE stop picking on my friends. You are on my blog – you are more than free to disagree with me, but like you said, “stay classy.” acting like this isn’t going to make me want to agree with you, it isn’t going to make me want to see your pov, it’s just going to annoy me. Please leave Rachel alone.

By: rachel

rachel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:47:39 +0000

“two brief comments in a blog is obsessive? Your comment is longer”:

I am a friend of this blogger, hence plural comments.

By: hmmpf

hmmpf — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:54:31 +0000

Rachel – two brief comments in a blog is obsessive? Your comment is longer, part of a growing vendetta against an author for comments by what seems to be her husband (if a link to a website is proof of identity. You can’t even be sure she knows about, let alone endorses, the comments. Stay classy.

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:54:13 +0000

wow! I might have picked up this book but Michael’s comments sound a little obsessive and I am going to stay away.

I never go by people who flaunt American Library ( or any other established institution) as a defense on a book blog devoted to a reviewer’s own bias.

The title was enough to make me consider straying, but this overly-defensive commenter cements it.

I wonder if he is commenting on other blogs. I think I will warn people against reading and blogging about this text: lest the community become privvy to his nasty and way-too-involved comments.

your opinion means more, moonsoar, than any Rainbow List!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:02:20 +0000

Apparently the American Library Association disagreed with your review and selected it for both their 2009 Best Books for Young Adults and their 2009 Rainbow List.

By: Court

Court — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:10:15 +0000

Great, Michael, I’m glad you liked it. We all have different tastes in what we find hilarious – chances are something that I find absolutely brilliantly hilarious, you wouldn’t, because we all have different ideas as to what good humour is. That still, however, doesn’t change the fact that I didn’t care for any of the characters, and if I don’t care for the characters then there’s a 99% chance that I won’t enjoy the book – no matter how funny it is supposed to be. I didn’t understand what motivated any of the characters, and imo, that is one of the most important parts of reading a good book.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:05:43 +0000

Hi,
I have to disagree with you on your review. I read this book and was laughing so hard my stomach hurt. I think you misinterpreted a farce as a serious book about relationships.

By: heather (errantdreams)

heather (errantdreams) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:53:09 +0000

Eeeeew. Uh, yeah. Skipping as suggested. *salutes*