Free-for-all at Amazon over "Unfit"

[zakur]

Amazon

Important note from Amazon.com: We've decided to suspend our normal customer review policies and rules for this title. For example, we usually prohibit ad hominem attacks. That policy in particular seems to be incompatible with presidential election year politics. Therefore, short of obscenities, reviews on this book are now a free-for-all. We take no responsibility for the following discussion. Aren't presidential election years great? Have fun!

 

[TragicMonkey]

I hope they've parcelled out a lot of disk space just for this. They'll need it.

 

[American]

Is that a green light to flood?

 

[Dogwood]

Is that a green light to flood?

Let's find out.

 

[a_unique_person]

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[Maledict]

Heh, I find the disclaimer a bit funny nonetheless.

 

[Lemastre]

The Repubs may miss the point here.

No doubt the Repubs have invested some bucks in resurrecting this swiftboat smear and producing this book. But most Dems are not all that interested. Kerry appears to be a run-of-the-mill, ambitious politician with enough brains and skill to be president – certainly when compared with GWB. But we're not voting for Kerry this year. We're voting against Bush. So whatever the Repub PR machine has put out under O'Neill's name is of not much significance. I suppose the Repubs hope to sway the so-called undecided vote with it. You can only hope that these folks are smart enough to look at Bush's performance since 2000 and not at anyone's Vietnam experience. If we want to go back several years and compare, then we should take a gander at what Bush was up to during the same periods in time.

 

[Skeptic]

Heh, I find the disclaimer a bit funny nonetheless.

amazon.com usually employs people to overview the book reviews before they are posted to make sure they are really about the book, contain no advertisements, etc.

Obviously, here they got flooded with so many "flame war" reviews that they just said screw it--we're not going to all that trouble for one silly book. So they decided to just turn on the "obscenity" filter to take out curse words.

The unintended consequence of this is that, ironically, you cannot post curses or heated comments in your review of, say, Mein Kampf, but you can do it on this book...

 

[AtheistArchon]

The unintended consequence of this is that, ironically, you cannot post curses or heated comments in your review of, say, Mein Kampf, but you can do it on this book...

- Not so ironic really. You can't post curses in either review, and I'm sure that if the traffic were as great for Mein Kampf right now as it is for Unfit, they'd make much the same restrictions. After all, it's a logistics problem, not a moral or philosophical one. The other option was to simply shut down the reviews altogether.

 

[Skeptic]

- Not so ironic really. You can't post curses in either review, and I'm sure that if the traffic were as great for Mein Kampf right now as it is for Unfit, they'd make much the same restrictions.

That's just my point: it is a purely logistical problem for amazon, of large traffic volume, which ironically makes it seem as if they "detest" that book in particular more than they do Mein Kampf.

 

[jj]

Let's find out.

Say way, hey, stormie
Walk him along, john carry him along

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So, how's the campaign to abuse the system going?

 

[Lemastre]

Must all books be reviewed?

Obviously, Amazon wants to sell as many copies of Unfit as it can. But does it have to post reviews? The book is patently a campaign flyer rather than a serious work. If I were Amazon, I'd consider not even opening the review process to "readers" at all. I rather expect the Repubs to begin handing the book out free in Wal-Mart.

 

[Jocko]

Re: Must all books be reviewed?

I rather expect the Repubs to begin handing the book out free in Wal-Mart.

...or Michael Moore inviting people to download his movie for free?

 

[RandFan]

Re: Must all books be reviewed?

I rather expect the Repubs to begin handing the book out free in Wal-Mart.

...and golden eggs.

Why give away what people/morons (depending on your POV) will pay money for?

NY Times Best-Seller Lists

HARDCOVER NONFICTION
Top 5 at a Glance
1. UNFIT FOR COMMAND, by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi
2. AMERICAN SOLDIER, by Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell
3. MY LIFE, by Bill Clinton
4. BUSHWORLD, by Maureen Dowd
5. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES, by Lynne Truss

 

[daenku32]

LOL. Click on Reading Mastery II: Storybook 2, Rainbow Edition as the alternative reading and then scroll down to the last review. It's funny as hill!

25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars You'll be transfixed!, August 28, 2004

Reviewer: Lisa Pease "Guerrilla Informationist" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This book is so engaging you will find yourself transfixed. The story of the pet goat was so interesting I must have stared at it for about seven minutes. Warning: If you are a president and your country is under attack, do not read this book.

 

[Skeptic]

Heh. Good one. Of course, if you want REALLY, er, "interesting" reviews, check out the "reviews" of collections of that excerable comic strip, "The Family Circus" by Bil (sic) Keane. A sample:

Love those ghosts!, April 22, 2004

Reviewer: "winslow50" (Bayport, MN United States) - See all my reviews

Another addition in a long list of family-centered literary and visual masterpieces, this book reveals, at long last, Billy's true desires. In a long, drawn out mushroom induced dream sequence, we first see Billy on the streets of Mogadishu, strung out on khat, looking for a way to get out of Somalia and start his life over again in America. Eventually, Billy wins a visa and is on his way! But after only a few weeks on the streets of NYC, we see Billy living in a cardboard crate, hooking up with a woman who looks a little too much like Dolly. It's too much for him, and he eventually heads down to the Salvation Army mission, where he gets his act together, and is drawn to the ministry. We see page after page of Billy preaching the good word on the street corners of NYC. Eventually, Billy falls in love with another soldier in the army of the Lord, and they begin to make plans for the future, until Billy is brutally murdered one night at the hands of some roughs. His new found love is grief stricken, and wishes night after night that she could tell him how she truly felt. Eventually, Billy returns to her in the form of the ghost "Ida Know" and she makes love to her while she is making some pots for the mission on her pottery wheel. Truly, one of the most romantically drawn strips I have ever seen.

Cloak and Dagger., April 22, 2004

Reviewer: redbird (Topeka, Kansas) - See all my reviews

Not since the Green River killer caused such mayem in the Washington State area that we have have seen such an accurate description of the mind of a serial killer(s). Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and Little PJ and are an extreme gang of thugs, praying on the homeless and prostitutes and the homeless prostitutes. Bill Keane has really gone out of his way to probe the mind of the twisted mind of a typical killer. Billy is described as the perfect killer of infertile couples, killing between 20-25 couples. Dolly takes her rage out on young prostitutes. Jeffy, after discovering that he was actually born a female, takes revenge on all doctors who specialize in sex changes. Little PJ is more of a pipe bomber, destroying more homeless people than he can shake a stick at. Disturbing and complex, Keane has branched far away from his salad days...A must read if you are new to the FC, but stay away from it if you are an old fan, which I'm.