One-Star Heaven

21 October, 2005

Lovely Maud just linked to this collection of Amazon one-star reviews of books that made Time‘s top 100 books list (of which I have read only 41 ’cause they left off most of my faves—Bastards! Unsurprisingly, it’s very US-centric). Anyways, the whole one-star reviews thing made me very very happy. Reading one-star Amazon reviews always makes me very happy. They so funny!

5 comments

Livia on 21 October, 2005 at 5:52 PM #

When you have the time, read the amazon reviews (both U.S. and UK) for “Shadowmancer”. They’re better than the actual book.
janet on 21 October, 2005 at 5:54 PM #

Hysterical! It’s hard to say whether the funnier reviews are the ones I agree with or the ones I don’t….
niki on 21 October, 2005 at 8:39 PM #

hehe – just sent the link to the noise email group here – most enjoyed “definitely killed the Sat. morning blues…”
Justine on 22 October, 2005 at 2:45 PM #

Janet and Niki: aren’t they? I particularly loved the one that accused c. s. lewis of product placement in the Narnia books with his excessive mentions of turkish delight.
Justine on 23 October, 2005 at 5:02 PM #

Livia: sorry that your comment got held up in the moderation queue. Damned spammers. Oh, how I hates them.

I just had a look at those reviews. Hilarious!

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