September 9, 2011
An Incendiary Review of The Only Ones
I should have known better. When I received a mysterious email with a link to an unnamed video, I should have trashed the thing. It didn’t look like SPAM, but hackers are becoming more sophisticated these days and can transmit a virus quicker than a kindergarten class after a field trip to the consumption ward. Actually, I would have been lucky if it was just a virus. The link led to something far more insidious than that. It led to…
Well, let me start by reminding you that about a year ago I had a run-in with two of the most ruthless book critics on the circuit. You can read about it here. I have since recovered from the incident, but the video below has resurrected all those feelings: the fear, the shame, the hunger to eat a jar of peanut butter and a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips. The only thing I have done in the last 17 hours is sit by a window, sighing and watching the rain trickle down the glass. After watching this, you may be tempted to the same:
Hello, you probably get comments like this all the time, but that was a great post– preceded by many other hilarious tidbits of blog tastiness. I found your book the other night, when my son and daughter wouldn’t go to sleep. They pled innocence, but guess who they blamed? That would be you, Mr Author of Dweeb. You go to bed ten minutes earlier tonight.
September 9, 2011 12:21pm
Thanks Jennifer! I will happily take comments like yours any day of the week. And I’m happy to take the blame for kids losing a bit of sleep due to reading. They’re sacrificing for a good cause. Keep in touch!
September 9, 2011 12:32pm
[...] be a love it or hate it book for most kids (this one hated it, on Aaron Starmer’s blog), I think. I predict it’ll be a tough one to find a home for. [...]
November 24, 2011 08:51am
I came across your book, and decided to read it based on the cover (despite the publisher’s description that I wasn’t crazy for.) I’m so happy that I did. This was my favorite book of the year, and as a children’s librarian who reads everything I can get my hands on, that’s saying a lot! I googled the book after I was done and came across the video review above. So sad, but your book is bizarre, so it says something that it can have such shockingly extreme reactions.
November 28, 2011 01:48pm
Wow, Maggie! Thank you so much! That is saying a lot and it means a lot to me. I’m so glad you found the book and found it to be just the right amount of bizarre. Don’t worry too much about the video. A rumor is being bandied about that perhaps this is a cruel hoax perpetuated by the author and his nephew. Strange sense of humor in that family…
November 28, 2011 04:19pm
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