Fake reviews on-line

[Fisherman]

Helena:

"for what? Vanity or greed?"

Must we choose ...?

The best,
Fisherman

[HelenaWojtczak]

As an author myself, I have to say, this case really shocked me. Truly. I don't know how the culprit has the nerve to appear in public ever again. Millions know what he has done. And for what? Vanity or greed?

Helena

[Robert]

Presumably some care must be exercised, e.g. would this be convincing? :

"Jane Eyre? Great stuff.

Charlie Dickens."

That review would be about 10 000 words too short.

[lynn cates]

long live old speak

Hello Don. Glad to see that you are not infected with "new speak."

Cheers.
LC

[Supe]

This seems a rather despicable, but all too common, bit of self-promotion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/b...hors-warn.html

I really enjoyed the miscreant author's excuse "a lapse in judgment" as rather typical of the modern era -- nobody sins, they just make a "mistake" (emphasis on the singular, of course, no matter how often they do it).

Don.