Here we are again...

[reviews_and_ramblings]

... but this time, sincerely, I didn't care much and I have a reason for that. I read a book from a newbie author, Atom Heart John Beloved by Luke Hartwell. I think I was the first to review it, and since I have the referrals link report, I know people went on the Amazon website and bought the book after reading my review. I was happy of that, actually more than one people did that, and if you consider that I cannot check all link, then I think even more than those I saw bought it. Very very happy for this new author, it's always a joy to see a new attempt being successful.

And then today I received a notification from Amazon someone left a comment on the review on their website. I was happy and clicked to read the comment (I love comment)... this is it:

"Due to a complete disregard for proofing, or perhaps just bad grammatical skills, this review makes little or no sense.

Why bother posting a review if no one can understand it?" (http://www.amazon.com/review/R1QQV3WJ3XH910/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1478142928&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=)

it was a bummer. I even re-read the review to understand if it was really so bad, and sincerely, I don't think so. My first reaction was to blame myself, but then, just second away, I thought, go to hell you and your hateful comment, you are not even worth a second thought. And I posted a reply:

"Apparently you are 1 out of 5 who cannot understand this review, and btw, since I also posted this on my website, and I have the referrals links report, I also know that people bought the book AFTER reading this same review. So yes, I think my "bother" in posting this review was worth the result. And BTW how many languages do you speak? Because, obviously English is not my mother tongue, but I can write good enough to have people giving me a positive vote, while probably you don't speak and write in Italian, am I wrong?"

Comments

[elizaben.livejournal.com]

Your review is perfectly understandable (perhaps because I'm not a native speaker either XD) and it's also obvious English is not your first language. If the commenter is soooo concerned about language quality, he should go after all the native speakers with bad language skills first.

I could understand someone complaining about you writing something hateful or insulting, but complaining about you taking the time to write something in a foreign language that is actually helpful (not to mention positive, thus very good for the author) makes no sense to me. Trolls will be trolls.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

that is, if it was a negative review maybe, but it's positive, and there are not many for this book, so WHY complaining? Trolls will be trolls