When Kiri Blake wrote her first book, she decided to do a little promotion on her co-op's listserv. Unfortunately, one of her neighbors was unimpressed by her memoir, Can't Think Straight, which is about her life after finding out her longtime boyfriend was gay. The neighbor posted his one-star review on Amazon:
The author of this book lives in my building and repeatedly emailed on our listserv to promote her new memoir of being dumped by a fiance who had come out of the closet. So, I figured, why not read it; at the very least I'll get an unique window into the life of a neighbor, something most New Yorkers wonder about--who are those people living in the adjacent boxes. Well, now I'm wishing I had that time back.
He goes on, but you get the idea. Blake told the New York Times that she doesn't know who wrote it, but, “Once I read it, the first thing I did was lock my door!”
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