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1Macumbeira
Jun 7, 2013, 12:27 am

Bas and Dchaikin Have both a hot review for the moment. They are too shy to pimp them themselves. They are excellent reviews and should be thumbed skywards !

2MeditationesMartini
Jun 7, 2013, 1:40 am

Done! And done.

3Macumbeira
Jun 7, 2013, 7:31 am

Thanks Med, you see it helped : place one and two !

4dchaikin
Jun 7, 2013, 7:04 pm

Thanks Mac!

5baswood
Jun 7, 2013, 7:28 pm

The power of Le Salon

6anna_in_pdx
Jun 23, 2013, 1:25 pm

A review of Solla's book The Things that Always Were now up. Hoping others here will read it, it is a wonderful book.

7Macumbeira
Jun 23, 2013, 2:00 pm

And don't forget Bas latest on Camus !

8Macumbeira
Jun 23, 2013, 2:01 pm

and the Freeque of course

9dchaikin
Jun 23, 2013, 3:49 pm

Awesome review, Anna.

10anna_in_pdx
Jun 23, 2013, 5:41 pm

Thanks, Dan.

11Meredy
Jun 23, 2013, 10:50 pm

So is this how people get so many thumbs-ups on their reviews? I've wondered about that for some time now.

12A_musing
Jun 23, 2013, 11:19 pm

Before answering, we need you to prick your finger a bit....

13A_musing
Jun 23, 2013, 11:21 pm

I note Meredy has a recent review that Urania needs to see....

14anna_in_pdx
Jun 23, 2013, 11:26 pm

I think we have a long tradition of using the discussion lists to call attention to reviews, but also once a few people have thumbed a review and it is on the "hot review" list, it can start getting attention in general, particularly if it really is good, or funny, or really negative. Then there are the truly great ones like Tanstaafl's review of the Book of Mormon or one of tomcatmurr's o r Brent's, that keep getting rediscovered and acquiring more thumbs.

15anna_in_pdx
Jun 23, 2013, 11:31 pm

Hey everyone, check out Meredy's review of House of Leaves!

16Meredy
Jun 23, 2013, 11:31 pm

Hmm--thanks for answering. I've worked pretty hard on some of my reviews, and I confess that I've wondered what some of the others have that I haven't got--reviews that get eight or a dozen upvotes when most of mine have zero. I didn't know it was cool to call attention to them.

I also don't know anything about a "hot reviews" list. Where can I see that?

17anna_in_pdx
Jun 23, 2013, 11:33 pm

It is on the lower right hand corner of your home page above the births and deaths.

18Meredy
Jun 23, 2013, 11:41 pm

Thanks! I guess I've rarely scrolled down that far.

19MeditationesMartini
Jun 24, 2013, 12:44 am

I think the hot reviews list is really the make-or-breaker as far as thumbs goes, right? It seems like everything that gets on there pretty much goes to eight or nine, but the exposure only comes after it's already "hot."

20Meredy
Jun 24, 2013, 12:48 am

Wow! I just checked, and two of mine are on that list. That could only be you Salon folks. That's a thrill. Thank you! I had no idea how this worked.

21Macumbeira
Editado: Jun 24, 2013, 2:31 pm

Here are some guidelines to get thumbs.

1) Make sure you have some friends thumbing you into the hot review list in the first place. Anonymous Lurkers will never have their reviews thumbed

2) Remind everybody you are posting a review. Pimp it on the threads made for pimping. It is not frowned upon in the Salon. If it feels awkward add : " Humbly pimping...". Don't forget to add a link when pimping

3) Make sure that your text which appears when it is on the hot-list is an easy readable and teasing blurb. With some tinkering, you'll get it good : no title - no general impression etc...

4) Make a correct link : there is a chain link symbol at the bottom of your review text. click it, copy the link in the address window. This is the only good link.

5) Keep your review short. The shorter the faster the thumbs flash. not too short either, we will flag it !

6) Do not redirect from your review to your website or your blog. People will forget to thumb your review after reading the blog

7 ) Be emotional ! Laud the ones every one lauds :

"Harry Potter" is the best book ever and it probably saved my life...."

insult the ones everyone insults :

" Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged is the most stupid book ever. I vomited over it before stuffing it in the WC pot ..."

8 ) Be vulgar ! People like vulgar and it is fun to do !

" I shoved a rolled - up copy of the last Dan Brown paperback in my a-hole to see if it came out any better than when it got in...Alas"

the last one should get you over the 30 thumbs

22Meredy
Jun 24, 2013, 4:58 pm

21: I see. Thanks. I guess I'll treasure my zeroes.

23anna_in_pdx
Jun 24, 2013, 5:12 pm

Oh Mac you kidder.

24A_musing
Jun 24, 2013, 5:21 pm

Meredy, don't believe him. This is the Salon. Nothing better than length, substance, and blogs. Of course, a little profanity doesn't hurt, too.

25A_musing
Jun 24, 2013, 5:23 pm

Love this one from Meredy, on our own Mishima, though not the tetralogy one: http://www.librarything.com/work/39037/reviews/98424829

26anna_in_pdx
Jun 24, 2013, 5:25 pm

Meredy, I had a lot of fun last night reading through your reviews. Seriously. 25: I noticed that and wondered if any of you Mishima fans would pick up on it!

27MeditationesMartini
Jun 24, 2013, 6:17 pm

That would make perfect jacket copy (which sounds like, but of course isn't, a backhanded compliment).

28LolaWalser
Jun 24, 2013, 6:54 pm

" Humbly pimping..."

Lol... this is almost enough to make me write a review. Just so I could shuffle in, eyes downcast: "I'm just a humble pimp..." "Give a thumb to a humble pimp..."

29Macumbeira
Editado: Jun 25, 2013, 12:04 am

( sulking ) I am only trying to help.

30tomcatMurr
Jun 25, 2013, 9:16 pm

Mac, you are awesome! Now, where did I put my dan brown.?

31Macumbeira
Jun 25, 2013, 11:36 pm

LOL

33tomcatMurr
Jul 2, 2013, 9:04 pm

Good job mac! Thumbed! So you gonna reread?

34Macumbeira
Editado: Jul 2, 2013, 11:51 pm

yup, or switch to the icon and the axe, to have another perspective

and thanks for the thumb

In the meantime I go on a surfing / kiting trip to Morocco. I have Dosto's crime and punishment in the backpack

35RickHarsch
Jul 15, 2013, 5:34 am

just posted my review of Goddard C. Graves' (HarryMacDonald, our fellow member) Harmony Junction: A Polyphony of Love and Ideas in the Fullness of Time

36anna_in_pdx
Jul 15, 2013, 11:11 am

Oh good, I have not made it that far into the book yet, will read your review for some impetus.

37RickHarsch
Jul 15, 2013, 1:21 pm

or maybe impyness?

38Meredy
Jul 15, 2013, 4:33 pm

Along with several things in the mystery-thriller category, I recently posted a review of Aarseth's Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, which was a fair challenge to read. I don't think my review does it justice, but at least it shows that you can read the book without a Ph.D.

I've set the goal of reviewing every book I read (and some that I abandon, explaining why), even if it's only six words. So my reviews all begin with a six-word encapsulation. Writing those is good mental exercise.

39anna_in_pdx
Jul 15, 2013, 9:09 pm

I love your reviews, Meredy.

40Meredy
Jul 15, 2013, 9:28 pm

Oh, thank you! Writing them turns out to be a good discipline.

41tomcatMurr
Jul 17, 2013, 11:44 pm

indeed it does. Pimping my review of Pynchon's Against the Day

42Meredy
Jul 18, 2013, 12:22 am

41: Good one, Murr.

43RickHarsch
Jul 18, 2013, 1:24 am

What does the guy have to do to get a 5 from you, TC?

44tomcatMurr
Jul 18, 2013, 9:07 pm

Thanks Meredy.

Good question Rick, I was thinking about that. 5 stars puts the book in my category of Really Great Book, a designation I use for life changing books. I gave Gravity's Rainbow 5 stars because it really did change my life to the extent that it radically altered the parameters of how I think (or thought at the time I read it) about literature. ATD seems to be "more of the same from Pynchon" and not much of a life changer for me. It's still a great book, though. Make sense?

45RickHarsch
Jul 19, 2013, 2:59 am

Yes...but inevitably I imagine you writing 'This book really fucked up my life...5 stars...'

46tomcatMurr
Jul 19, 2013, 5:38 am

lol

47baswood
Jul 19, 2013, 6:02 am

Great review TC and yours Meredy and Rick you have been getting in on the act as well.

48Meredy
Ago 13, 2013, 10:23 pm

I was surprised to be the first reviewer of Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film. I'm sure there are others here who are better-qualified reviewers than I am.

49Macumbeira
Ago 14, 2013, 1:36 am

Who needs another review after this perfect one?
Thumbed !

50Meredy
Ago 14, 2013, 1:42 am

Why, thank you, Macumbeira. Thank you very much.

51anna_in_pdx
Sep 12, 2013, 11:16 am

Hello guys,
This person is not a salonista but the review was great.
http://www.librarything.com/work/3371/reviews/101833259

52RickHarsch
Sep 12, 2013, 3:17 pm

thanks

53Sandydog1
Sep 19, 2013, 8:33 pm

Note to self: Pay very, very close attention to 5-star books from TCM...

54RickHarsch
Editado: Oct 2, 2013, 6:48 am

Note to SD: five stars from TCM are typos

55RickHarsch
Oct 2, 2013, 6:48 am

56Macumbeira
Oct 6, 2013, 3:25 pm

Thumbed Rick !

57RickHarsch
Oct 6, 2013, 5:58 pm

Thumbed? Did it deserve a thumb? Did you grind it into the desk with your thumb?

58anna_in_pdx
Oct 6, 2013, 8:12 pm

Wow, rick. Very thought provoking. Being from a small town myself I have been sort of taken aback at the ravages that meth has wrought on the rural life in the US. Not that it was idyllic before...

59MeditationesMartini
Oct 7, 2013, 12:52 am

people like so much to read about heinous crimes that they can no longer really know what they feel/think about cases like that of Byrd and Shepard. Probably there is some mixture of titillation and repulsion, but the soup likely has even more ingredients.

that should be the first thing they teach kids in kindergarten.

60RickHarsch
Editado: Oct 14, 2013, 3:36 am

http://www.librarything.com/work/203502/reviews/102661990_144738397?fb_action_id...

Maybe that didn't work out, but Anna has a short review of The Big Sky posted, a book I also like very much (it begins a tetralogy and I like all the books, though this is probabyl the best.

(it does work, my link)

61tomcatMurr
Feb 9, 2014, 6:21 am

humbly pimping a very long essay in two parts about a fascinating book: Decadence Mandchoue

http://www.librarything.com/work/11136538