Pearls Before Swine

October 31st, 2006

“1984 is the worst book I have ever read. I would advise anyone who is thinking about reading this book to reconcider!”

Charlie Stross identifies what the reading public really thinks about literature…

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  1. Fergie said, on November 1st, 2006 at 11:09 am:

    I have alomst completely given up looking at the ‘Reviews’ on Amazon – it seems to me that the people with the least to say (and especially loony right wing Christians) say it loud, and say it often, on Amazon.
    A good rule of thumb when looking at an Amazon review – stop reading when you hit the second spelling mistake!
    Mind you, some of the examples on Charlie Stross’ blog are hilarious.

  2. Breakfast said, on November 1st, 2006 at 7:38 pm:

    In keeping with the long-tail aspect of Amazon’s selling reviews on relatively little-known works where you only have a couple of people who have really looked them out are pretty good. Once you have more than a couple of reviews you start getting the more clueless people writing nonsense.

    As for why Amazon even bother allowing people to post reviews before something is released I have no idea. On popular stuff that just acts like an idiot magnet.

  3. TheJovialGnome said, on November 3rd, 2006 at 8:07 am:

    Loved the Romeo & Juliet revue “it’s been done before, right?” – yeah right!

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