Just found this via www.sfsignal.com.
It's a post from Tobias S. Buckell's blog pertaining to the number 1 reviewer on Amazon.com. Read it here.
Unbelievable!;-)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Fantasy and science fiction and speculative fiction book reviews, author interviews, bestseller news, contests and giveaways, etc. Enjoy!
Disclaimer:
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Join us on Facebook!!
Speculative Fiction Authors
- Joe Abercrombie
- Dan Abnett
- Daniel Abraham
- Saladin Ahmed
- Paolo Bacigalupi
- Iain M. Banks
- James Barclay
- Bradley P. Beaulieu
- Peter V. Brett
- Terry Brooks
- Tobias S. Buckell
- Jim Butcher
- Jacqueline Carey
- Blake Charlton
- David Constantine
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- Hal Duncan
- David Anthony Durham
- David Louis Edelman
- Steven Erikson
- S. L. Farrell
- Raymond E. Feist
- Jeffrey Ford
- C. S. Friedman
- Neil Gaiman
- William Gibson
- Peter F. Hamilton
- Tracy Hickman
- Robin Hobb
- Mark Hodder
- Charlie Huston
- J. V. Jones
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Jasper Kent
- Kay Kenyon
- Stephen King
- Katherine Kurtz
- Mark Lawrence
- Sergey Lukyanenko
- Scott Lynch
- George R. R. Martin
- Robert McCammon
- Ian McDonald
- China Miéville
- L. E. Modesitt, jr.
- Michael Moorcock
- Richard Morgan
- Haruki Murakami
- Mark Charan Newton
- Naomi Novik
- Nnedi Okorafor
- K. J. Parker
- Tim Powers
- Terry Pratchett
- Melanie Rawn
- Alastair Reynolds
- Patrick Rothfuss
- Brian Ruckley
- Brandon Sanderson
- Courtney Schafer
- Ken Scholes
- Ekaterina Sedia
- Joel Shepherd
- Dan Simmons
- Melinda Snodgrass
- Jeff Somers
- Jon Sprunk
- Neal Stephenson
- Sam Sykes
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Ian Tregillis
- Carrie Vaughn
- Peter Watts
- Brent Weeks
- Margaret Weis
- David J. Williams
- Tad Williams
- Jack Whyte
- Chris Wooding
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Publishers
SFF Resources
Index of Reviews and Interviews
About Me
Followers
SFF Blogs of Interest
- A Dribble of Ink
- A Fantasy Reader
- Adventures in Reading
- Bibliophile Stalker
- Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews
- Dave Brendon's Fantasy & Scifi Weblog
- Debuts and Reviews
- Drying Ink
- Falcata Times
- Fantasy Book Critic
- Fantasy Faction
- Fantasy Literature
- Fantasy Magazine
- Feminist SF
- Forbidden Planet
- George R. R. Martin's Not A Blog
- Graeme's Fantasy Book Reviews
- Grasping for the Wind
- Iceberg Ink
- King of the Nerds
- Mysterious Outposts
- OF Blog of the Fallen
- Only the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Pyr-o-Mania
- R. S. Bakker's Three Pound Brain
- Rob's Blog o' Stuff
- Sandstorm Reviews
- Scifi Chick
- ScifiGuy
- Speculative Book Review
- Speculative Fiction Junkie
- Speculative Fiction Junkie
- Speculative Horizons
- SQT Fantasy-Scifi Girl
- Staffer's Musings
- Stomping on Yeti
- The Agony Column
- The Bodhisattva
- The Book Smugglers
- The Book Swede
- The Genre Files
- The Green Man Review
- The Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review
- The Neth Space
- The Night Bazaar
- The Ranting Dragon
- The Soulless Machine Review
- The Speculative Scotsman
- The Stamp (of Approval)
- The Wertzone
- The World in a Satin Bag
- Walker of Worlds
- When Gravity Fails
StatCounter
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(523)
-
▼
August
(59)
- Take advantage of this late summer sale!
- Scott Lynch contest winner!
- HUNTER'S RUN contest winners!
- Daniel Abraham contest winners!
- New UK cover for Erikson's DEADHOUSE GATES
- Epic fantasy, GRRM, authoritarian thinking, and mo...
- About possible translations. . .
- Win a copy of R. A. Salvatore's THE ORC KING
- This week's New York Times Bestsellers (August 28th)
- Interesting SFF article. . .
- Submit your questions for a Stephen R. Donaldson i...
- Win a copy of L. E. Modesitt, jr.'s NATURAL ORDERMAGE
- Just a reminder. . .
- New interview with George R. R. Martin, Gardner Do...
- Hunter's Run
- New Steven Erikson Interview
- Very cool website!
- Unmasked!
- This week's New York Times Bestsellers (August 21st)
- The Wise Man's Fear cover art
- New Q&A with Scott Lynch
- The Dark River
- Win an autographed copy of Joe Abercrombie's THE B...
- This week's New York Times Bestsellers (August 14th)
- The Changing of the Guard: Myth or Reality?
- Are you a "color blind" reader?
- Win an Advance Reading Copy of the limited edition...
- Most Recent Index
- British Invasion, part 1: Brian Ruckley's WINTERBIRTH
- 2007 World Fantasy Award Finalists
- Harriet Klausner, anyone!?!
- Final cover for the French edition of Erikson's GA...
- Feast of Souls
- An excerpt from Jeff Somers' THE ELECTRIC CHURCH
- New Neil Gaiman and Naomi Novik limited editions f...
- Win a copy of George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois ...
- Dune contest winner!
- Brian Ruckley contest winners!
- Is Science Fiction Obsolete
- This week's New York Times Bestsellers (August 7th)
- Submit your question for an interview with George ...
- Neil Gaiman contest winner!
- US Cover art for Erikson's REAPER'S GALE
- New UK cover art for Erikson's GARDENS OF THE MOON
- Daniel Abraham Interview
- French cover art for Erikson's GARDENS OF THE MOON
- Brandon Sanderson contest winners!
- Survey
- Gardens of the Moon limited edition
- Win a copy of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson'...
- New Kids on the Block
- Coming Attractions
- Attention all Peter F. Hamilton fans!
- Win a copy of Daniel Abraham's A BETRAYAL IN WINTER
- This week's New York Times Bestsellers (July 31st)
- Win an autographed copy of Brian Ruckley's WINTERB...
- PS Publishing News Room
- Red Seas under Red Skies is out in the USA!
- The Blood King cover art
-
▼
August
(59)
2009 - Pat's Fantasy Hotlist is proudly powered by Blogger
Free Blogger Templates by DeluxeTemplates.net
Wordpress Web Hosting on Templatelite.com
Free Blogger Templates by DeluxeTemplates.net
Wordpress Web Hosting on Templatelite.com
18 commentaires:
To say I hate that woman would be an understatement. She's a horrible human being for posting reviews when she clearly hasn't read the books...grr
Sorry, Pat, but what exactly is the point of this post? Maybe I've missed something, but it seems to me that the intent is to give this particular reviewer a bit of a bashing. Just don't seem like cricket to me, especially when coming from a fellow reviewer.
Correct me if I totally missed the point.
Alrin: For many months now, since Klausner is reviewing like 1000 books a year, many people have been wondering if she could possibily read everything she reviews. . .
I just found Buckell's post to be hilarious, for the woman obviously hasn't read RAGAMUFFIN. Hence, how could she possibly give the novel a negative review?
Understood. I haven't read any of her reviews, placing no stock in Amazon reviewers myself (that's not to say that there aren't any decent reviewers on Amazon, simply that I, myself, don't pay much attention to the site for review purposes). It seems that I did, indeed, miss the point, after all.
As to my deleted comment, it was concerning the "horrible human being" remark of the initial poster, which I found to be in bad taste to say the least. I decided to scrap it because I lack enough info to form a constructive opinion on the matter, and didn't want to cause grief on the blog.
Anyway, apologies if my previous post came across as nitpicking/nagging/chuntish/etc. Drinks occasionally do that to me. ;)
You know what, I think I've just found her Polish equivalent. Well, not quite, but she seems to be very productive with 1200 reviews in the biggest polish online bookshop.
I think every country has their own Harriet...
This ought to sum up Harriet quite nicely ;)
In addition to this, the reviews of her that I've had the misfortune to read have actually contained big spoilers. Probably in an attempt to make people believe she actually read the books.
Perhaps every country has its Harriet, waiting for the perfect moment to rise from the depths? I mean, there's a Polish one now. Maybe it's a conglomerate in the making, and the fact that one Harriet has read it doesn't mean that another Harriet has.
LOL! At least she doesn't mention "great writers such as Robert Stanek" ... Does she ?
Funny, I wrote a post on my blog about this months ago. If you're interested go HERE to read the post and see what others have to say about her.
yeah, well have you discovered the Harriet Klausner Appreciation Society yet???
HK writes highly favorable "reviews" of virtually every book she "reads". Favorable reviews sell books. It's not hard to see why Amazon (and for that matter all the book publishers) must love her. I'm not sure that she can really be called a "reviewer" any more. She's really more of an unpaid freelance marketing agent for the book industry.
Repulsive woman. She shouldn't get away with it.
She asked David Anthony Durham for a review copy of his book after she'd reviewed it on Amazon! LOL. That caught her out.
Ed S said it all. Almost every HK review is a 5 star review--sure to sell books, especially if she's the only reviewer.
I've never seen her give anything under a 4-star, and even 4 stars are very few and far between. When HK gives only 4 stars the book must really be bad (in her opinion).
Surely someone is paying her for her efforts...
In addition to what Ed said: HK is not alone. There's a crowd of 'reviewers' like her on Amazon (and I suppose everywhere else). It's just they're not THAT blatant.
Though they're pretty bold too. Check out our list of Our Friends Top Reviewers and you'll see what I mean. Check out guys like John Matlock "Gunny", or W.Boudville, or Robert Morris -- the list goes on and on.
Alrin, about "especially when coming from a fellow reviewer" -- 'reviewer' is not the problem, fraud is. Still a fellow?
Hurriet does give the very infrequent three star review. You can find a link to one such review on The Harriet Klausner Appreciation Society blog.
I left a comment on her review of Buckell's book because it was patently obvious she had not read the novel.
She has reviewed a lot of really good authors in addition to the Nascar romances and Christian fiction that make up her usual fare. That was what first made me notice her, and once you've seen her in action it's mesmerizing, like looking at a train wreck.
Post a Comment