The Liminal Librarian

This negative reviews theme keeps cropping up: Over at Whatever, John Scalzi posted several of his one-star Amazon reviews and challenged other authors to do the same. (Read some here.) Here’s an excerpt from my own angriest one-star reviewer — enjoy!

Seriously, this book is a huge waste of time and money. There was absolutely nothing helpful about this book whatsoever. It contained depressingly obvious information, and even more depressing discourse from the various librarians quoted. If you want proper and helpful advice then I suggest saving your money and going down to the local library and asking the librarians themselves. You certainly can’t do worse then I did paying $30 to be kicked in the groin with ridiculously obvious “advice” and miserable ramblings about the futility of pursuing a rewarding career with a library science degree. Gordon’s book is a government pamphlet worthy, elementary book on how to choose a school, interview well, and how frustrating public employment can be. All is common knowledge to all but the most hapless uninformed high school student. I want my $30 back.

(I’m a much easier target than some of the Hugo- and Nebula-award winning folks Scalzi links to…)