i’ve received a lot of truly heart-warming messages from folks after they’ve read my latest literary effort, ‘unprotected sects.’
but hey, i’ve also received some loud silences and a couple of down-right cranky messages. i think it’d be fantastically funny, not to mention more real, to record the not-so-positive reviews along with the positive ones on the back cover. that’s assuming i ever do a second printing.
one of my dearest old friends, a lady whose opinions i value tremendously, so eloquently wrote: “i expected it to be racy. i did not expect it to be crass, insensitive, inaccurate and down-right disgusting.” i like to think that otherwise she loved it. ok, of course i found her comments mildly unsettling. but then i consoled myself with the thought that at least she’s too far away to throw hard objects at me.
the aged mother of one of my good buddies, a lady who apparently reads a book each week, told her son she couldn’t finish mine.
an eighty-year-old cousin, after telling me how much he was looking forward to reading the book, offered no reaction at all, for a long long time. eventually he sent an email suggesting i visit him in haliburton ‘to discuss the book.’ i do like road-trips but it aint gonna happen.
“there is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” aristotle.
My ninety-two year old mother said of the book,"It was sexual but not offensive."
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