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March 28, 2005
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Step 1. Be a representative of a small publishing company.
Step 2. Contact an online book reviewer, and ask if she'll write something about a book you've published. When she says she can't promise she'll like it, proceed anyway.
Step 3. Wait for the review. Uh oh, it's bad:
Leah’s Way is a perfect example of crucifiction, ignoring plot and character development in favor of beating readers over the head with a religious message. Which, to put it another way, means it’s just plain bad.
Step 4-5-6. Launch a series of emails at the reviewer. Accuse the reveiwer of Christian-bashing,
And, unbeknownst to you, it helps us when "politically correct, hate anything Christian" liberals choose sides as you have done in the culture wars. By the way, we're winning.
rip the reviewer's personal life,
You're so inconsequential that it is like you simply don't exist. Don't bother responding. I won't bother reading your response, and you'll have your attention hoping nature's worst nightmare come true--you'll be ignored. Enjoy the rest of your miserable life.
and, while you're on a roll, break out the nukes.
You picked on Leah's Way solely because your biases predispose you to hate it. That's not a critic, that's a propaganda machine like Goebbels was under Hitler.
Step 7. Profit.
Kudos to Steph for not going ballistic back at the rep, and thanks to Bookdwarf for sending me here.
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Comments
God, I thought Christians were all about love and stuff. What a hypocrite. That's why I'm into kaballa, like Madonna and Britney Spears. Maybe I should send that lady a red love string bracelet.
Posted by: V-bunny | March 29, 2005 07:16 PM
