Making Light:  Open thread 155 ::: March 29, 2011, 04:55 PM

Terry @ 729 -- Yes, it's the latest viral career trainwreck, the
tastiest Schadenfreude in days.

I thought the best part was that the unwise author's first few salvos
consisted of glowing reviews from amazon.  Apparently she meant them
as refutations of the lukewarm review.  Reality-challenged, a little?

The glowing reviews, though, are fairly amazing.  Excerpts:

  I paricularly enjoyed being made a part of the story (or the feeling
  that I was) and also how discriptively it is written so that you can
  see the places and feel like you have visited them, which I find
  very important in a book.

  The story is about a seaman with his younger wife that use to be a
  ballet dancer.

  The descriptions of each new daily adventure she encountered seemed
  to effortlessly find themselves on each page for the reader to enjoy.

Of course, it may be only that readers with a tenuous grasp of English
are best equipped to appreciate haphazard writing.  But I can't help
suspecting a bit of pseudonymous self-reviewing.  The most mystifying
bits of the author's rant come when she is declaring victory over her
detractors:

  My first book is great!  and I intend to promote now without
  your ball.

and

  Just look at your ball all of you....look at you.

Can anyone shed light on this turn of phrase?