Recently I received a new comment on my blog on the review I did on “The world’s best whiskies”. For some reason something went wrong in moderating it, but I would still like to react here.

The comment:

I have no vested interest in this book whatsoever, and could care less how it does commercially. Having said that, you as a blogger lose all credibility in my mind by giving this book 1 star out of five…seriously? 1 star out of 5 is for an e-book that is grammatically incorrect with wrong information in it, and poorly photoshopped pictures of distilleries. This book was picturesque, informative and at the very least entertaining. To give such a scalding review simply because an author’s own subjectivity offended you is utterly ridiculous.

Ryan

Now, about the one star: Usually, when I rate something like this, it didn’t interest me, or I don’t think it is very good. A scalding review would have been zero stars. Apparently I have to comply to someone else’s review system, since my description of ons star is completely different than the one given here.

Second, about the review itself. I think enough has been said about it. Apparently a couple of nice pictures should warrant a book a good or at least average review, regardless of the actual content. My review gives just one star since I don’t believe the credits given to some of the whiskies. They don’t make sense to me. If you carefully read my review you see why.

And lastly, no last name? I have no idea who you are and while that should not really matter one bit, it does strike me as odd, especially since you are apparently at least a little bit upset with me.

I don’t want to start the discussion held at the original post anew, but I didn’t want to have ‘deleted’ this comment without at least some reaction.