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« The God collision | Main | Well, I know it's in Greece, somewhere » Tuesday, October 31, 2006Amazon.com's craziest customer reviewsEnglish science fiction writer Charlie Stross has a side project: Compiling the lamest things that Amazon.com users have said about classic novels in their "Customer Reviews." Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," for example, was reviewed like so: I don't mind the parts the were actually about Anna and human relationships. I could not stand all of the boring Russian politic talk or Levin and his boring farming or hunting talk. AHH! I do not recommend this book. If I truly hated someone, I would [force] them to read this book." Now, I've never read "Anna Karenina," so I can't say for sure if this review is lame-brained. But here's a review of Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" that strikes me as crazy: I found this book difficult to follow and hard to hold my interest. I am an English teacher so I don't think it's me. "A Tale of Two Cities" -- boring? Every chapter is a cliff-hanger! I re-read the whole thing a couple of years ago in a single weekend. One more strike against the concept of user-generated content. (Via Boing Boing) Posted by Joshua Glenn at 12:55 PM
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