--- Victor Rangel-Ribeiro wrote: > > You do not like it because it was unfavourable. > Mario observes: > Victor, Excellent exposition of book reviewing and comments on this curious episode. > If we go back to Gilbert's original rant about the review we will see that a) he had not read the book, perhaps had never even heard of it, b) he thought Avelino wrote the review, c) he did not like the wording of the review from which he concluded that d) the hapless Avelino was "cheap", "in keeping with Goan character" and using the review to "claw his way up by stomping on someone else's efforts." Whoa! > Knowing Gilbert, I was a little shocked at his atypical vitriol and uncharacteristic opinion of "Goan character", and chalked up his irritability at the time to his recent promotion to Grandpa, and the fact that he may have had to stay up the previous night singing lullabyes and/or just come from cleaning the baby's poop :-)) > Then some others who had also not read the book jumped on the band-wagon, for reasons that escape me. > Fortunately, all the unnecessary heat eventually generated some well-needed light and Gilbert and the others now know what is really going on, and those who needed to be have been duly "educated" by the sage comments of people like you, who wisely looked before leaping. > I hope all this means that Edna sells lots of books to people who may want to know what all the fuss was about :-)) >
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