Journal Entry
Harriet Klausner backlash
June 29th 2007 at 9:53 am
Someone pointed out to me that readers/buyers of Ragamuffin are dissing Harriet Klausner’s review of Ragamuffin thats up on the Amazon page for Ragamuffin, and their anti-Harriet comments are cracking me up. Go team. Here, check it out:
Barbara Delaney
Harriet Klausner’s review says about Nash “..inside her she carries a weapon of mass destruction..” Not quite, Nash is actually a heavily modified living weapon of war. HK neglects to tell prospective readers about the Afro-Caribbean dialogue in this novel, the fact that it contains characters from the author’s previous novel, “Crystal Rain” and so many other important elements that I would urge prospective readers to look elsewhere for a review of this book.
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Harriet practically never gives anything but 5 stars. Her ratings are not differentiated, therefore pretty useless.
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The incoherence of this review is astounding.
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In reply to an earlier post
You dare to interject fact into this world of oblivious fantasy?!
Okay.
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I think we’re reaching the point where readers all know that a Harriet review is pretty much static and are starting to get annoyed by them.
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1. Jim Hines on Jun 29th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I got Klausner-blasting comments on her Goblin Hero review, too.
It blows my mind that the system has evolved to the point where a reviewer could have hate-groupies…
2. John on Jun 29th, 2007 at 10:44 am
You don’t know the half of it…
See also: The Klausner Post.
3. Steve Buchheit on Jun 29th, 2007 at 10:45 am
I’ve only looked at reviews on certain products and am usually astounded by the type of review that basically says, “ths product is crap because it doesn’t work with the setup I have and the version of equipment I have and I was too stupid to read the product description to find that incompatability out before I ordered. So don’t order this at all.” And then a 1 star.
So I tend not to read them anymore.
4. Tony on Jun 29th, 2007 at 11:52 am
I never cared one way or another about “her” reviews, but ever since I read the comments and checked out the ariticles about her the SFSignal post that John linked to, I’ve thumbed down any of her reviews that I’ve read - I feel it’s my duty.
You cant seriously be reading upwards of 30 books a week can you?
5. will shetterly on Jun 29th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I got a review by her that hasn’t appeared on Amazon yet, but it’s here at B&N:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0312866313
Perhaps the most amusing thing to me is that the title is wrong. It makes me wonder if she’s using speech recognition software.
I tend to think she’s the reviewer for people who read a whole lot of books very, very quickly.
6. will shetterly on Jun 29th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Tony, don’t do that! She provides a nice balance for the folks Steve mentioned in comment #3!
7. will shetterly on Jun 29th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Tony, oops, please ignore my comment at #6: I don’t do online reviews, so I forgot that you can rate comments. I thought you meant you would post a bad review to balance hers. My bad.
8. Joe Sherry on Jun 29th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Yeah…the whole Harriet thing cracks me up. There is a decent amount of disgust / hate / humor on the Amazon boards, but by now most of them have pretty well given up on her (or they did a couple years back when I last checked)
9. Shaun Farrell on Jun 30th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Ever since I saw Harriet complete confuse the story of Star Wars: Outbound Flight, I’ve stopped paying attention to her. I went back to the review a few weeks later, thinking it was my duty to correct her since she obviously hadn’t really read the book, but the review had already been changed. Hmmm. . . . .
10. Amy Sterling Casil on Aug 13th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Speech recognition software! Ai chihuahua!
If you go to her website, it’s impossible to square “that” Harriet with the apparently current Harriet.
http://asterling.typepad.com/incipit_vita_nova/2007/08/harriet-klausne.html