Bwa ha ha ha!!!
Yeah, those things just don’t roll of the tongue, now, do they??
Tansu, I think you’re probably right. It hadn’t occurred to me that B & N would do that, but I suppose that any hype is better than no hype.
And I think we’re actually seeing the dimwittedness bar being raised with Harry Potter. From Book 4 reviews:
These two evidently didn’t get the memo.
<< struggling to feet after being blown away by Caps Lock barrage >>
And the scary thing is that next year, Karen will be old enough to vote, and presumably as a voter, she will still try to do as little reading as possible…
YOU STOLE MY LINE!!! 
It’s number one on the bestseller list because people have preordered it. This has nothing to do with whether it’s any good.
When B&N enabled the review link, do you really think the children who wrote the “reviews” gave a damn about whether the book’s out? This is their way to say “I’m excited!”
Does it really matter how many stars it gets on Amazon? Is that going to influence whether you buy it or not?
Yeesh.
Well, I hate to sound like an automaton but uhhh yea, kinda. That is what the system is there for.
Not in this case. HP-V is a prime example of what the book professionals call a “review-proof” product.
I “garantee” I’m a-gonna puke.
And if she reads as little as possible, why on earth would she pick up a newspaper to find out where her local polling place is, or read the voter registration form in order to fill it out, or hell even bother to show up at a voting booth, because after all, you gotta read the damn ballot.
Does anybody else have the sneaking suspicion that book 5 is going to suck worse than books 1-4? Boy I sure do!
Yes - I do. I know I will still enjoy it, but it will be tinged with that same disappointment I got from Book 4 - that it wasn’t tightly written enough to be as gripping or well structured as the first three (particularly book 3 which was excellent) and that it needed a damn good edit.
I also got sick of the Unquestionable Superlativeness of Harry. It was sickmaking that a whole contest had to be invented just so he could win it - and by that I mean for the sake of the author, not the feeble plot denouement reason that is written down the in book. Yeah - it’s nice to have a bit of Harry heroics on the sporting field. It’s great that he has some special powers. But he’s rapidly becoming a Straight-A Student Bore.
I enjoy pretending to myself that somewhere in the depths of Book Five, someone will hand Harry a joint and turn him on to druuuuuugs…
hey, it could happen
She won’t have to do all that if she’s a Democrat.
Dr. Fidelius:
“She won’t have to do all that if she’s a Democrat.”
Or a Republican.
Hey, it HAD to be done. Eheheh
Anyway, I started on the first book now. It’s okay, I guess. The only person that interests me is Severus Snape! 
Well, I just submitted a review, criticizing the strong sexual content in book 5 and suggesting she should have saved the homosexual sex and bestiality for a later book when Harry was older, but I don’t know if it will show up.
Jesus H. Christ people. These are kids books, those reviews are being written by kids. What the fuck do you expect?
Opening the reviews before the new book is released is rediculous, but making fun of little kids is just fucking vile.
I have the sneaking horrible suspicion they’re not so “little”… maybe well into their teens.
Are you serious?!? :eek:
Do you really think it’s appropriate to mention sex and beastiality in a place where a lot of children will be reading?
Although, if I’ve just been whooshed, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Grendel, you might bear in mind that unless the reviewer puts an age in the review, we actually have no way of knowing whether the author of, “Read the other 4 and can’t wait for more! The other 4 books were so great!! I recomended them to my sister and now she’s yelling at me to get her more!! I couldn’t put any of them down! I gotta get the other book!” is 10 years old, or 16, or 23, or 59.
We are assuming, jokingly, that they’re all 10-year-olds, because of the level of burbling dimwittedness, but the fact is that these reviews could just as easily have been written by adults with 10-year-old reading levels. As a matter of fact, the writing style reminds me strongly of a cross between Martha Stewart and that Entertainment Tonight popsy, what was her name anyway…
Now, if these were reviews from a kids website like Disney or Nickelodeon, that would be different. But Barnes and Noble is an adult website–how are all these kids getting here? Therefore, it’s not unreasonable to assume that the majority of these dimwitted B & N Harry Potter reviews are actually being written by dimwitted teens and adults.
So, no, we are not necessarily, automatically, “making fun of little kids”. And, besides, making fun of dimwittedness is never vile. It’s almost a public service.
Well, vile was an overstatement.
I’m just saying that these are children’s books, so it would seem logical to assume that a poorly written review is coming from a child (who is not “ignorant”, but in the process of learning) rather than an adult. The level of enthusiasm displayed would also indicate, to me, that the writers are not very mature.
I am in full agreement that accepting reviews before the book is released is stupid, it just seems a little mean to be making fun of the writers. The people who screwed up are the ones running the B&N website, IMHO.