Author Snipes Critic on Twitter Over Negative Review

Now everyone knows the "critic's" name. What a way to become "famous." Critics. Reviewers. Analysts. Bah! The Peter Principle, perhaps?

som people just cant handle critizisem
how pathetic

Critics are idiots. I never pay any attention to them. These days they just praise whoever (or whoever's editor/publishing house) pays them the most. They are completely irrelevant, and giving away ANY plot detail is unacceptable, period. For the record, I have never read any books by the author in question, but due to this ridiculous fiasco, I may decide to. I respect people willing to stand up for themselves against small people who are envious of a talent they do not possess.

Regarding "Ameritanity" (gag) Oh goodie, another right wing idiot who thinks she/he knows all about how to be "Christ-like" and "praises Jesus" but doesn't even realize His real name is Yeshua bin Joseph. She pontificates to the left about the GLORRRRRY and superiority of ultra right. This means of course pro-war, meaning anti-life, anti-health care for children, anti social programs, in other words GREEDY but feeling holier than thou because they make a weekly social appearance at church and have ALLEGEDLY "accepted Jayyyyysus into their haaaarts" no doubt "for the chilllllldren". Children meaning the ones they want to ensure are born (even if it means putting pregnant women in shackles and FORCING them to give birth, even in cases or incest and rape) but these are the same children they would gladly starve and see die preventable deaths due to lack of access to adequate health care. Ugh... I could go on for hours, but my basic point is, no people, as a rule, are less Christ-like than Bible thumping right wingnut Xtians (I will NOT call them Christians because they act in direct opposition to Christ's teachings). Their absolute and total hypocrisy defines them... always...ALWAYS! ...and there is no Ameritianity in them either! Nothing these fringe element wackos have to say is relevant, nor is it based on anything the Founding Fathers had in mind when this nation was born. See? UTTER hypocrites!

Sounds like Hoffman can dish it out, but she certainly can't take it! As I started to click on different links to read more of this story, there was a small article that said Hoffman, at one time, gave a negative review on a book some other guy wrote. She got this guy so upset, he basically "lost" it! She asks if "anyone" these days can be critics? Well, whynot? If people read those reviews, and I'm sure they do over at The Boston Globe. Not anyone can be a critic for The Globe!
That is a prestigious newspaper, which is, I believe, owned by The New York Times. So, in her feeble, little mind, anyone can be a critic. I guess that works both ways: With that said, ANYONE can be a writer. You just need an idea, good grammar, a creative imagination, a large vocabulary and last but not least: Patience. I think that's one of things Hoffman is lacking.. She sounds like a loser, but then again I've never heard of the bitttch!!!!

OK, here's how it works. Book critics get solicited by publishers to review books to advertise the publication of the work. The publishers' basic tenet is "no publicity is bad publicity" if it gets someone to shell out cash for a book. So Ms. Silman did not just decide to rain on Ms. Hoffman's parade. She was given a promotional copy of the work in advance of its publication because getting a review in the Boston Globe would make the publisher and Ms. Hoffman more money. The publisher and author went to the critic, hat in hand, asking her to write up the book in her column. I'm sure the publisher is even now figuring out how to cut and paste and insert ellipses into Ms. Silman's review to make it sound like a glowing recommendation on their dust cover. It's all a big game...it may even have been a contrived event designed to put some life back into the career of a fading author. I don't believe anything anymore that smells too much like a publicity stunt. And this one reeks of it.