Sometimes I feel compelled to write book reviews on Amazon solely to offset the people who post vitriol-laden 1-star reviews. I can dig disagreement, but when your review resorts to name-calling, it’s not really doing anyone any good.
And maybe to a greater extent it bothers me because these are people reading books — so I have certain expectations of them as book-readers. Perhaps it’s just jarring to see obvious ignorance (e.g. name calling, ad hominem attacks, etc) from people who have both 1) read the book and 2) taken the time to write a review of the book.
But I content myself with the hope that the people I actually would care to be influenced by reviews are intelligent enough to see those 1 and 2 star reviews for the dregs they are. Kind of like ignoring YouTube comments.
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Haven’t posted much cause there’s been a lot going on. Busy at work, sick, moved. Lots of stuff. I’ve also been listening to a lot of music, it seems. If you look at my account on last.fm you’ll see that I’ve listened to about 14,000 tracks since Sept. 5, 2005. That works out to listening [...]
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Scary! Mouse over the links… creepy! Update: another fine example of linkrot. I still like that url.
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I’m the number one search result for “fleshy”!
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You can find anything on the internet How to Field Dress a Unicorn
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Just so you all know, I have registered http://fleshy.org.nz I’m not sure what I’m going to put there, but I just wanted to say I’m very happy to own this domain.
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who here remembers this? The Really Big Button That Doesn’t Do Anything
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