# Book Review Sites for Crap **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123 "2004-01-18T17:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123/1 "2004-01-18T17:04:33Z")
I found this site while chasing links off a Bad Movies page [http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/book/index.html](http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/book/index.html) I am amused by “disposable literature” and want to know if anyone knows of any similar sites. Snarkiness is good. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123/2 "2004-01-18T17:17:59Z")
Sites with reviews of bad books (in the same way that sites review bad movies) are rare, simply because book reading is a more active process. If you find a book is bad, you stop reading it. If you’re a reviewer, you can get hostile, but can’t really interest people in reading the book to laugh along. Also, it’s easy a cheap to find a bad movie, and people can find them on TV for free. Books are harder to find. In any case, [Red Mike’s Reviews](http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/reviews.htm) has some reviews of bad books (check out the review for “The Pleistocene Redemption”). There’s also this review of [The Ultimatum to Mankind](http://www.tangentonline.com/reviews/anthoreview.php3?review=178). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123/3 "2004-01-18T17:33:43Z")
BTW, if you want to start your own page reviewing bad books, the raw material is available from [Xlibris.com](http://Xlibris.com) or [iUniverse.com](http://iUniverse.com). Go into their bookstores and read the excerpts. It won’t take you long to find something. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123/4 "2004-01-18T19:15:48Z")
Mrs. Giggles does mostly reviews of romance novels and the like, but she absolutely [savages](http://www.mrsgiggles.com/books/shayne_wings.html) a couple of vampire goth books in a highly amusing way. Sample: _He loves her! He trusts her! But look, he’s a vampire, so he will first whinewhinewhine about the pain, loneliness, the nastiness of sucking blood, et cetera - oh go suck a carrot, you._ ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-review-sites-for-crap/225123/5 "2004-01-18T19:47:02Z")
When I do reviews for Epinions I take special joy in savaging crappy books. It’s like a religious calling! Julie