Comments on: Harriet Klausner under seige https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Lonnie E. Holder https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23906 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:59:00 +0000 #comment-23906 Barbara:

Can you point to a particular person who is trying to bring Harriet down so that they might rise in the ranks?

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23905 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:31:00 +0000 #comment-23905 I have posted many comments on Harriet Klausner’s reviews. I’ve never confused the review with the book under review. On three different review comment sites authors weighed in with their opinions on HK’s authenticity.

What led me to her reviews initially is because she was reviewing some of my favorite authors, and doing a poor job of it, in my estimation. She has reviewed Gail Godwin, Paul Auster, M.C. Beaton,and many, many others whose writing I enjoy tremendously.

Not all of Harriet Klausner’s critics have pure motives, however.
Some are there to attempt to bring her down so that they may rise in the rankings. They are some of her most vitriolic critics.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23904 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:13:00 +0000 #comment-23904 No specific cases given, just as I thought. That is because the following: “commentators are extraordinarily vitriolic in their comments about the thousands of books “HK” is supposedly reviewing” simply isn’t true.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23903 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:11:00 +0000 #comment-23903 Glenda Larke said:
What does disconcert me a bit is that the commentators are extraordinarily vitriolic in their comments about the thousands of books “HK” is supposedly reviewing – they are all trash.

Could you point to a specific occurrence of this please?

]]> By: Lonnie E. Holder https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23902 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:46:00 +0000 #comment-23902 I am one of those individuals who has posted numerous comments regarding Harriet’s reviews. Hopefully I have not thrashed the books themselves.

My most recent comments are focused strictly on the quality of her reviews rather than the books. My comments are becoming more constructive rather than destructive.

I agree with all the comments here. It is impossible for any one person to read that many books and post reviews for them. I do not think Harriet is a plot by publishers. On the other hand, I could see Harriet posting a summary written by a publisher, but her reviews are so awful that that explanation seems unlikely too. I think it is more likely that “Harriet” is actually multiple reviewers working together. Some of “Harriet’s” reviews seem very different in style than others. Some are absolutely horrendous and others are readable. I am guessing that “Harriet” is actually up to ten people, possibly all women, working together.

In any case, Harriet is an embarrassment to all top reviewers.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23901 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:47:00 +0000 #comment-23901 Woah, she’s more prolific than ever? I had wondered if she just posted what she was told to, without actually reading — that would explain different writing styles. 😉

I’m not so worried about vitriol aimed at an obvious scam….

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23900 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:23:00 +0000 #comment-23900 Poverty-stricken – but hey, what’s money compared to having the rain forest for your back yard. :o)

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23899 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:33:00 +0000 #comment-23899 No Hrugaar, I am a poverty-stricken author!

Back on the thread about paying for reviews, an author who did pay a reviewer did put up a reply, though…

See January 23rd ’07.

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23898 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:36:00 +0000 #comment-23898 Perhaps Harriet has set up an atelier where she has hack reviewers perched at Dickensian desks all scribbling or typing away, and she just puts her name to the finished product and collects her fee. Though I suppose she might call it a ‘school’ of reviewing. :oD

Why jo pleb should be reviling the books that get reviewed makes no sense to me at all. I mean, were there evidence that authors actually did pay to have ‘Harriet’ grind out a review for them, it might be grounds for wondering what drove them to such a desperate measure (heh) – but that doesn’t rule out the possibility that the book itself might still be an unrecognised masterpiece.

I’m assuming you didn’t pay to have your book reviewed, glenda. :o)

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2007/03/harriet-klausner-under-seige/#comment-23897 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:05:00 +0000 #comment-23897 I’m pretty sure she’s real too, Kendall, and I think she started out reading the books she “reviewed” as well. But I doubt that is still true. She even seems to have widened the types of genre she reviews, and the writing style of the review seems to fluctuate widely.

For February she reviewed 202 books. That’s 7.2 a day for 28 days. Plus writing the review. Hmm. Even in her interviews she never claimed that many.

She seems to be doing even better for March In the first 11 days she put up reviews of 168 books. That’s 15.2 books a day.

I was actually more disturbed by the strange vitriol of the commentators towards the books that she reviewed…especially as I have also been reviewed by the incredible Harriet!

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