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[ewein2412]

I was looking up the ISBN for The Empty Kingdom and discovered that it's been seriously reamed by an Ethiopian reader. Very interesting criticism (it's actually a review of A Coalition of Lions, though he doesn't refer to the title). I'm rather taken aback at his notion that my politics are shamelessly Eritrean Apologist.

http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Kingdom-Mark-Solomon/product-reviews/0670062731/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute...I thought those books were marketed under "YA Fantasy" not "Eritrean History"....

I voted it down (which I've only done once before.)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

My god, that is depressing. And also the only review.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

There is also this, on the same Amazon page for me. I was trying to figure out how to give The Empty Kingdom stars without writing a full review right now. (I have never reviewed anything on Amazon.)

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Writer-Ever/forum/Fx1QBK9WHH08CKK/TxZLK4SMS801Z7/1/ref=cm_cd_dp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&asin=0670062731&store=books

It made me feel happier.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I think complaining about the British barbarians is overlooking the fact that the books came out of a book about the British barbarians (and, I admit, The Winter Prince is still my favorite of your books and one of my favorite books, period). You didn't start with Ethiopia and paste the British barbarians in. You started with the Matter of Britain and ended up in Ethiopia.

Sure, there's a story about Ethiopian history that needs to be told, but I'm not sure that you, specifically, not being Ethiopian, are the one to tell it. That said, he may have some points, although I don't know enough about Ethiopian politics to sort them out.

[estara.livejournal.com]

If I'd read it already, I'd be posting on it. I wrote a comment to that guy trying to point out its fantasy - and I voted it down of course.

[meener.livejournal.com]

every review that guy has written has been a horribly negative one! i think he's got a chip on his shoulder.

i have posted the review i made on goodreads when i first read the empty kingdom. i should have posted it on amazon, too!

[nwhyte]

Amazon reviews are one of the more poisonous spaces that I have encountered on the internet. That was one of the reasons I recently deleted all of mine.

The unbiased reader of this particular review will rapidly conclude that the reviewer is projecting his own obsession with Ethiopian / Eritrean history onto your writing!!!