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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Meet Mr. Happy, Amazon Reviewer flipspiceland
This morning I was checking out The Bill from My Father: A Memoir on Amazon to see if the site's user reviews were as favorable as the media reviews on Metacritic.

That's where I came across a scathing review from someone who goes by "flipspiceland," who went into an anti-gay rant that lambastes the homosexual author for including personal, amorous accounts (which I believe straight authors do in memoirs, as well), labeling him "genetically mutated to not reproduce" and including him as part of the author's father's "genetic wreckage."

Not surprisingly, 0 out of 13 Amazon users voted to have found the review helpful.

I then checked out all of flipspiceland's reviews and learned that unhelpful reviews are his specialty. Three other books are reviewed, each of which received one star, including two that nobody found helpful and a third for Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages that only seven of 22 people found helpful.

In one of his reviews, flipspiceland says that it's rare that he won't finish even a bad book. Which indicates he is a voracious reader. Yet he's taken the time to share only four opinions with Amazon readers, all harshly critical and unhelpful.

Considering his appetite for advice while in no-sex marriages, his sour demeanor is not a surprise.

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Comments: Meet Mr. Happy, Amazon Reviewer flipspiceland

I believe we found America's next sexually confused, deviant serial killer.

I have bought 100's of books and products on Amazon, but never did a review for any of them. I wish I had time on my hands like flipspiceland...

Posted by Blonde at May 11, 2007 8:04 AM

Yeah,
I've run into this a bit too. My wife wrote a book and we have been promoting/selling it on Amazon (Call Me Sonya Grey. You'll be able to pick out the review.), but a disgruntled co-worker signed up for an account and wrote an awful review 3 weeks after it hit Amazon. It's fun, because reviewers (deranged homophobes or not) don't have to provide a real name, but can poop on your work from the security of their mom's basement. Stay classy.

Posted by Funck at May 11, 2007 10:42 AM

flipspiceland.............weatherman in atlanta?

Posted by pulpgrinder at May 19, 2007 8:22 AM
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