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[pegkerr]

This LJ community, frankly, makes me uncomfortable: bookfails.

Look, I get it. Sometimes books suck. But although I've read my share of bad books myself, and I find the idea of the community somewhat fascinating, I won't be friending it.

I've written books. I've poured everything I had into writing them, and I agonized over them, and I cried while writing them, and yes, I've heard praise for them, but I've also gotten, through back channels, that there are at least one or two people out there that think that one or the other of my books is nothing but a piece of shit.

I just can't enjoy a community that involves dumping all over the book that someone spent sweat, blood, and a signicant chunk of his or her life to write. Not when I know all the work that's involved. Call me a coward, I guess. I point it out, if anyone's interested. But I won't be signing up myself.

Comments

[gwyneira]

I entirely agree (having checked out the comm when you retweeted it just now). I write my share of negative reviews, because yeah, sometimes I read a book I don't like. But I don't write those reviews just for the sake of dumping all over the author, because that's nasty and not constructive.