<story><title>Orson Scott Card&apos;s Amazon Review of Ender&apos;s Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0812589041&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hugh3</author><text>Unfortunately does nothing to change my view that authors should probably keep away from their own reviews. If he&apos;d had some brilliant new insight that would be one thing, but instead he just comes off as slightly more defensive than anyone who has sold tens of millions of books should.&lt;p&gt;I guess it was 1999 when this was written, though, so the norms for online reviews had not yet been established.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwecker</author><text>Keep in mind also that Orson has written several books for writers and does a ton of workshops etc. For sci-fi he&apos;s a pretty prolific (and good imo) writing teacher. In his response he was specifically targeting literary concepts that he teaches and has written about while trying to dilute some of the ad-homonim attacks that were apparently exploding for the book at the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Orson Scott Card&apos;s Amazon Review of Ender&apos;s Game</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/review/R3SKPG9XEJYASE/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0812589041&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hugh3</author><text>Unfortunately does nothing to change my view that authors should probably keep away from their own reviews. If he&apos;d had some brilliant new insight that would be one thing, but instead he just comes off as slightly more defensive than anyone who has sold tens of millions of books should.&lt;p&gt;I guess it was 1999 when this was written, though, so the norms for online reviews had not yet been established.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ars</author><text>These days Amazon has a place where writers can comment on their books. It may not have existed in 1999.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s one thing to fake a review, but there&apos;s nothing wrong with using that spot to talk to your readers.</text></comment>