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Negative reviews may not merely say that your book sucks, but that you, personally, suck as a human being; if you wrote a childhood memoir, they may add that you were clearly bad to the bone when you were seven years old.
(No, I haven't been checking my Amazon stats obsessively, I was there looking something else up. I can understand a child being self-centered, and utterly devoid of compassion or tolerance, but it's hard to understand these traits in an adult looking back on her life.)
On the other hand, if I were Hanne Blank and had written Virgin: The Untouched History, a brilliant, well-researched, incisive, and funny history of the concept of virginity in the western world, I would undoubtedly get creepy emails inquiring about my sex life. On the whole, I think I prefer "you suck."
(No, I haven't been checking my Amazon stats obsessively, I was there looking something else up. I can understand a child being self-centered, and utterly devoid of compassion or tolerance, but it's hard to understand these traits in an adult looking back on her life.)
On the other hand, if I were Hanne Blank and had written Virgin: The Untouched History, a brilliant, well-researched, incisive, and funny history of the concept of virginity in the western world, I would undoubtedly get creepy emails inquiring about my sex life. On the whole, I think I prefer "you suck."