The "Editorial Review" section is huge, with about 8,000 words. I don't recall seeing any other book on Amazon with that section anywhere near that big.Her hubby has just put up a five-star review/rebuttal on Amazon.
I now see 233 TOTAL reviews, maybe it was 231 total reviews you saw.Amazon immediately marked it "most helpful" of the more than 30 5-star reviews(as compared to over 170 one-star reviews) despite there being only one rating of the review, which marks it as unhelpful. haha!
I took a screenshot of it because I thought that was so ridiculous, and wanted to get it before the numbers changed.
I also made the first comment on his "review."
P.S.: I think Amazon is deleting some of the negative reviews. I could have sworn there were 231 one-star reviews an hour ago, and now I see 175.
Hmm...As her husband, you're my go-to guy for an impartial viewpoint on the subject.
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The "Editorial Review" section is huge, with about 8,000 words. I don't recall seeing any other book on Amazon with that section anywhere near that big.
Yeah, I was probably mixed up there, so I deleted that not long ago. I do remember Amazon doing that for other bad reviews before, like for the game "Spore."I now see 233 TOTAL reviews, maybe it was 231 total reviews you saw.
The comment on her husband's review - you mean this?
Thanks.Hmm...
They're about the same controversy, though. Doesn't bother me either way.ETA: Blarg's and my comments really aren't about Weird Tales magazine, perhaps they should be moved...
Her hubby has just put up a five-star review/rebuttal on Amazon. Amazon immediately marked it "most helpful" of the more than 30 5-star reviews(as compared to over 170 one-star reviews) despite there being only one rating of the review, which marks it as unhelpful. haha!
It is the "most helpful" only because a 1-to-5 ratio (at the time of writing) is much better than (for example) an 8-to-42 one!
That is so. damn. funny. to me right now.
The third comment by E.A. Solinas on Jaglom's Amazon review really sums it up:"You're hysterically comparing people giving low ratings and bad reviews on amazon to the Communist blacklisting?"What's really remarkable is the unwillingness of Foyt/Kaye/Jaglom et al to listen and comprehend why PoC might find this book objectionable.
It's like their generation, which witnessed the explicit racism of Jim Crow laws in effect and the subsequent Civil Rights act, can't comprehend more subtle forms of it. Their ideas on race seem locked in the past, and unable to understand more modern thought, such as how white privilege can limit one's own point of view and understanding and perpetuate the racial divide.
...It all smacks of the squeamish sort of tolerance and acceptance because you're supposed to, not because you feel and believe it and accept it as obvious, ordinary, and not at all optional or a gift to be granted from on high.
And yet the more people breathe fire about it.....the more popular it will become. Nothing sells in America like controversy. Sigh.
Her hubby has just put up a five-star review/rebuttal on Amazon. Amazon immediately marked it "most helpful" of the more than 30 5-star reviews(as compared to over 170 one-star reviews) despite there being only one rating of the review, which marks it as unhelpful. haha!
I took a screenshot of it because I thought that was so ridiculous, and wanted to get it before the numbers changed.
I also made the first comment on his "review."
Oh FFS. See, there's the other problem with this book. There are morons out there who'll see it as a prophecy.by Niki (new) Jul 12, 2012 06:22am
interesting. i think white people are already the minority. i'm in Virginia right now and I'm seeing a heavy block community not much different from Los Angeles. Ironically, I am in a coffee shop filled with white people, but I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years time, blacks and latinos will become the majority compared to whites.
Relatively unimportant tangent: I would like to publicly distance myself from the clueless white lass in Virginia quoted above. "Niki" is a somewhat uncommon spelling of my nickname; when I see people who share it acting like asses, I feel the urgent need to pipe up, "That's not me, OK?"
The girls in her videos are terrible actors.
The author/publisher has input in the editorial review section. A cynical person might suggest it is "huge" to try and push the customer reviews as far down the page as possible.
You know, many thoughts popped into my head when reading that quote, all of them quite negative, but "gee, all people with the name Niki or spelling variations thereof must be really dumb and racist" wasn't really one of them. Just sayin'
The author/publisher has input in the editorial review section. A cynical person might suggest it is "huge" to try and push the customer reviews as far down the page as possible.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/revealing-eden-good-black-friends?newsfeed=trueRevealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends
If Victoria Foyt is serious about portraying the horrors of racism in her young adult trilogy, she should listen to those who know
Last July, a post about a "problematic" new book came up on my Tumblr dashboard. I only paid it minimal attention – I had Avengers gifs to look at, after all – but then someone else posted about it, and then another, and then another. I began to pay more attention to it.
Revealing Eden: Save the Pearls is the first in a trilogy of self-published young adult novels by Victoria Foyt, in which the world as we know has drastically changed: "the Heat", a mysterious global happening, has wiped out most white people (the "Pearls" of the title). Darker-skinned people have survived this disaster thanks to their skin's melanin; they're called "Coals".
Book one follows a young Pearl, Eden, who "loathes her white skin and accepts the oppressive opinion that it is ugly, even worthless". She wears a "special dark coating in order to protect it from the Heat". In an added twist, Eden must find a mate by the time she is 18, or else she will be killed. In book two, we learn that Eden's father works in a laboratory owned by a Coal (Bramford, who Eden falls in love with), where he develops the technology to enable mankind to overcome the Heat. The "technology" is essentially a human-animal hybrid, and Bramford becomes the first "man-beast" after trialling this new technology. There's also some other stuff about a terrorist Coal group, a community of near-naked rainforest-dwellers with a prophecy and some mild bestiality, too – and this is just Book One. Hoyt has also created an accompanying website to promote the book, with individual bio pages to flesh out her characters' back stories. One young Coal named Jamal (sigh) notes his bucket list thusly: "mate, turn 24, buy a new gun, become president of the FFP, destroy all Pearls".
It's a lot to take in.