Nobody will put up a statue of an Amazon reviewer
I've never paid much attention to the customer reviews on Amazon.com. When something's filled with typos and bad spellings, it's difficult to take the reviewer seriously. Charlie Stross has trawled though some of worst, and come up with some hilarious takes of classic works of literature.
To give a flavour, here's some wingnut on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude.
At best, Marquez reveals an egalitarian attitude that seems to pervade the Americas south of the Rio Grande (no wonder those countries are in constant economic trouble). Marquez should study supply side economics as described by Milton Friedman, another Nobel Prize winner, in order to give his book better balance."
Others cover such classics as 1984, Brave New World and A Tale of Two Cities
Posted by TimHall at October 31, 2006 08:04 PM