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Is this being rude?
I got an rather angry email from somebody on Amazon.com today. He was pissed off at a comment I made about a book review he had written. The book
was one I got for free and was horrendously bad. This guy, and several others had given it a glowing five star review. I simply questioned whether
or not I could trust a book review written by somebody who can't spell, and doesn't know what grammar and punctuation are. The author of the book
suffered from the same problems, which is why it was so shitty.
Am I the asshole here? 
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Nah, you're fine. He's probably one of the dickbags that Amazon is trying to get rid of for writing bullshit positive reviews without reading the
book. NY Times had a story about that a week or two ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/technology/amazon-book-rev...
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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a jerk. All night,I'm seeing Sentrand and thinking "Where do I know that guy from?".
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not at all. people are nuts.
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Good article. Anybody can publish on Amazon now, so these reviews are important. A lot of "authors" selling their work on there can't grasp basic
writing tools, spelling being a regular issue with many of these types. The fact that anybody would pay money for this crap amazes me. I get daily
emails from a blog that gives links to free books on Amazon. I've found a few that I really enjoyed, but most that sounded good are pure garbage. I
don't want it even if it's free. I now go straight to the reviews and read the negative ones. They give me enough info to decide whether or not to
waste my time.
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Is this in regards to the Tank Abbot book?
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too many fucks have too much fuckin time on their hands with the yelping and writing reviews for everything. from that to the commentary on news
stories and such it just makes me think that damn I really don't have enough free time anymore.......
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Reading yelp reviews is amusing. "My third cousin's grandfather's best friend's brother in-law met a man from Shanghai on the metro bus, so I know
good Chinese food, and Panda Express is sub-par." Nothing but a bunch of self aggrandizing turds.
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Quote: Originally posted by barc0debaby  | | Reading yelp reviews is amusing. "My third cousin's grandfather's best friend's brother in-law met a man from Shanghai on the metro bus, so I know
good Chinese food, and Panda Express is sub-par." Nothing but a bunch of self aggrandizing turds. |
fuck
Yelp. As a cook, it's nice to see the good things people have to say, but it's not worth hearing all the stupid complaints from people who clearly
have never worked in a restaraunt. If I could get away with it, I'd poison the lot of them.
record collectors are pretentious assholes
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