Comments on: A solemn vow (updated)

By: Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:33:51 +0000

if i comment you can feed me natto.

By: John

John — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:27:37 +0000

It is really lame to comment upon your reviews in any way, particularly amazon reviews. I know this, because I’ve done it.

But no more.

I so vow.

-John Green

By: Chaz

Chaz — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:21:35 +0000

As Claire says, wrong about everything except the licorice. But right about the vow. I so vow.

By: Maureen johnson

Maureen johnson — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:41:11 +0000

I had to put down my flaming mochatini (the delicious combination of gin, coffee, chocolate, and lighter fluid that I enjoy on a nightly basis) to answer this one.

It’s always the bad ones that get you, isn’t it? I get twenty nice ones, and then just one person calls me the worst writer in humankind and I get all up in arms and start looking for my sharply pointed stick.

But hey. Readers tend to run hot and cold, especially in YA. You know how meatloaf had LOVE tattooed one fist and HATE on the other? (Was that Meatloaf? How do I know this?) It’s like that. Well, you know what I mean. Maybe. Maybe you would if you drank as many flaming mochatinis as I do.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:35:29 +0000

I didn’t say I do what you tell me to in a timeframe convenient for *you.*

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:59:18 +0000

And yet you have not actually taken the vow.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:57:09 +0000

I always do what Justine tells me to.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:16:06 +0000

I vow not to personally respond to any amazon reader comments. (Of course, if my friends want to that’s okay. Heh. Heh.)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:44:43 +0000

i do not like licorice.

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:21:44 +0000

Oy.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:44:32 +0000

any woman who doesn’t like chocolate is a freak. And ditto for coffee and liquorice, although they are far less gender specific products. Tonic water on its own is only good for combatting malaria, but seriously, come on… whats not to like about G&T?

By: Gillian

Gillian — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:23:51 +0000

I vow despite the fact that evil food concoctions seldom make me tremble in fear*. Also, the fact that I don’t even read Amazon reviews except in very special circumstances is entirely irrelevant.

*I served vile green scrambled eggs to friends for New Year last night. They were *perfectly* edible. The colour made the skin of the Wicked Witch of the West look pale and winsome, but they tasted delectable.

By: sara z

sara z — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:45:29 +0000

This sounds much more doable than a vow of poverty or chastity.

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:06:54 +0000

And this is why writers must get together for drinks on a regular basis . . . Otherwise they would explode from the bile built up caused by all the mean amazon reviews their eyeballs have been subjected to. Poor writer eyeballs!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:59:55 +0000

i vow as well. i have previously vowed not to respond to them in public in any manner, such as my blog. it pains me, mightily, but I am not yet foresworn…

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:27:16 +0000

although i love chocolate, i care not for the other four, so it would still punish me to have them all at once. (oh, ruining my lovely chocolate…)

and, yes, i take the vow. (feel like i’m at an aa meeting or something.)

By: claire

claire — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:21:27 +0000

you’re wrong about everything except the licorice. i’d take all four of the others at onc’t. oh yeah, and the vow. me too.

By: scott w

scott w — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:00:42 +0000

Mmm . . . gin and tonic. Oh, right—the vow!

Yes, commenting on reviews of oneself is lame. I solemnly vow not to do it, at least not in public.

“Writing well is the best revenge,” after all. (Though flying ninja monkey assassins are a close second.)

By: chance

chance — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:59:37 +0000

I do so vow.

mmmm gin.