Saturday Steam - Rude comments

I was about to post a bookish link post but then I came across a comment over @ Books and Movies. It quite frankly got me a little mad, even though it's not a comment made to me. I'm probably a bit over agitated because it's way past bedtime LOL but I felt like sharing. CarrieK wrote a nice review on the book Wings by Aprilynne Pike towards the end she writes the following:

I devoured this book. I just started it yesterday – and I couldn’t put it down! I made my daughter gasp in horror when I told her I thought it was better than Twilight, which we both loved.

That comment obviously upset a reader, who also claims to be a librarian, so much that she felt like being very rude in the end of her reply to CarrieK:

Obviously your taste in books is very unlike the typical reader’s. Maybe you shouldn’t be writing reviews…

I think that most book bloggers will agree with me when I say that one of the things that is great about book blogging is the many different views and reviews one can see of one and the same books. I value all the different opinions, even if my personal opinion on a book isn't always the same as the one on the review that I read. I feel that it is possible to say that that you personally disagree in a way that's not rude, mean or offending.

This comment also reminded me that a little while back Rebecca over @ Lost in Books, got a rather rude comment from the author of a book she reviewed(not that the two cases are connected in anyway apart from the rudeness of the person leaving the comment):

I have been blessed with my first review by an illiterate! Thank you.

Here is her post about it: Authors overreacting to negative reviews - Disturbing trend?

So here's my bookish links for this Saturday, a real positive post.

To Rebecca:) and CarrieK: Keep up the good work, reading and reviewing!