Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
1. REALLY angry people who are highly motivated for personal reasons to be negative-negative-negative (and if you look at Amazon reviews for pretty much anything, you get some idea what I'm driving at there-- a lot of the time, those reviews have NOTHING to do with the quality or suitability of a particular product, so much as the stupid assumptions of the person writing)
Since smart people should read books other smart people like, one way to choose books on Amazon is to prefer books where the majority of reviewers understand the difference between a review of a book and a review of their particular bookseller.