As well as obviously being a useful site from which to buy things, Amazon is also a great source for checking out user opinions and reviews.
Unfortunately, the usefulness of these reviews though is badly affected by how people approach the review process. I have always thought that Amazon should have separate reviews, one for the product and one for the service, because people constantly confound the two. It's not a bad album just because the jewel case was broken or you couldn't download the mp3 and, likewise, the book isn't bad just because it arrived later than you expected. As for items never received, technically you can't comment on them!
The toughest review I've ever seen though, has to be the one for the book, "Football: It's a Funny Old Game". Somebody gave it 1 star simply on the basis that Holly, the computer in Red Dwarf, nominated it as the worst book ever written. And that's the only review of it, so there it sits with its average rating of 1 out of 5. And all because of Red Dwarf! Now that's harsh.
One always has such high hopes when sitting down to write something, but in truth, all that springs to mind are the small oddities one encounters...Then again, maybe I've just become a grumpy middle-aged man!
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