{"id":2244,"date":"2004-02-15T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2004\/02\/15\/merrique-le-magnifique\/"},"modified":"2004-02-15T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T13:35:42","slug":"merrique-le-magnifique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"merrique-le-magnifique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often wondered if the majority of the reviewers on Amazon.com were on crack when they posted their effulgent reviews of Anne Rice&#8217;s more recent efforts, and it turns out, maybe about 75% were drugged when they wrote them and the other percent were written either by her friends or herself.  <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/14\/technology\/14AMAZ.html%22\">It could happen<\/a>!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s sad when author&#8217;s and their friends post anonymously to give a book a glowing review.  Deceitful, despicable, and hypocritacle are just a few words that come to mind, and on Amazon no less.  Are we really heading towards a society where five little stars trusted by 100 people will matter more than by a well established critic writing for the <i>New Yorker<\/i>?  Do we want to trust the words of a nobody who may not have even read the book, versus a friend or a colleague with a better understanding of our likes and dislikes?<br \/>\nExtreme.  Perhaps.  But I find this mildly disturbing and amusing at the same time because it just proves that there&#8217;s no way in hell that that many people could have liked that pile of rubbish known as <i>Merrick<\/i> and everything else written afterwards.  We&#8217;re talking character assassination, people and Anne Rice is queen at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often wondered if the majority of the reviewers on Amazon.com were on crack when they posted their effulgent reviews of Anne Rice&#8217;s more recent efforts, and it turns out, maybe about 75% were drugged when they wrote them and the other percent were written either by her friends or herself. It could happen! It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}