Speaking of The Wild Swans
Mar. 9th, 2008 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI haven't looked at the reviews on Amazon for a while. I'd missed this one, which was posted in January, 2007 and is, uh, rather scorching. It sums things up thusly:
No. No, put the onus where it belongs, Peg. Instead it's more accurate to say that I simply didn't succeed at what I set out to do. With this particular reader.
*shudder*
"I would have never picked up this book if I had known what the subject material was. I was expecting a nice Swan story. So if you are looking for a happy book, look elsewhere."I will admit that I did want The Wild Swans to be sort of a stealth book, which would be picked up by mistake by at least some people who never would have touched a book with THAT subject matter. But it appears, based on the reviewer's comments about the "self-righteous, selfish, lying clergy with their foaming at the mouth followers," that she sorta missed the point.
No. No, put the onus where it belongs, Peg. Instead it's more accurate to say that I simply didn't succeed at what I set out to do. With this particular reader.
*shudder*