Call me old fashioned.....
July 26, 2011
Step aside, all you who have personal websites which have sidebar columns with titles like `What Great Things Famous People Are Saying About Me!'. Christian Smith, Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame, is starting a new trend in self-promotion: reviewing his own book for Amazon and giving it five stars.
Call me a a fuddy-duddy, hidebound reactionary (that's never been done before.....), but I have always thought a book is best reviewed by someone who, errm, well, gosh, you know, didn't actually write it, and old fashioned stuff like that.
Still, maybe this will prove to be a new trend. If it does, somebody should write a sociological/psychological analysis of it.
Call me a a fuddy-duddy, hidebound reactionary (that's never been done before.....), but I have always thought a book is best reviewed by someone who, errm, well, gosh, you know, didn't actually write it, and old fashioned stuff like that.
Still, maybe this will prove to be a new trend. If it does, somebody should write a sociological/psychological analysis of it.
