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Date Posted: 12:28:47 09/30/01 Sun
Author: Rachel (reposted)
Subject: Professional Reviews
In reply to: Noelle Leslie (reposted) 's message, "Re: The Bronze Horseman - SPOILERS!" on 12:26:45 09/30/01 Sun

I also read the reviews at Amazon.com and thought they were extremely harsh. I found it interesting that the professional reviews were pretty much all negative and the reviews from the readers were almost uniformly excellent. I've found this to be true in other instances as well (A Place to Call Home, others). My theory is that romance that is marketed as hardcover fiction is panned *because* it's romance. The reviewer is expecting the usual literary fiction slit-your-wrists depressing stuff, and when s/he is given romance, he thinks it's junk. When paperback romance is reviewed, it tends to get a higher grade, I think because the reviewer is expecting romance and grades accordingly. This could be just sour grapes on my part because I loved TBH and APTCH and they were both panned, but that's my theory anyway.

I read The Thorn Birds when I was 19 and loved it, but I have since revised my opinion. Now I would neither read it again or recommend it because I look at it as emotionally manipulative and agenda laden. All the suffering in that books yields nothing--just pathos. The suffering in TBH at least yields something. Something very great. Alexander gives his life, and he gives it willingly and with love, for his Tatiasha. (sniff)

Rachel Potter

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