# Henry Raddick, poet laureate of Amazon.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423 "2002-10-29T18:08:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/1 "2002-10-29T18:08:14Z")
Some of you may remember [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=66032), in which the topic veered toward Henry Raddick’s reviews. He’s been at it [again](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/AA9IP6AYACFK5/cm_aya_av.rev_prev-1/002-3638236-2832839?start-at=1&). Some Highlights: > [@](#): > > You Can Teach Your Dog to Eliminate on Command > 28 of 30 people found the following review helpful: > **Superb** > Smith and Stybbard have written a gem in this book. It’s certainly helped me to take control of my dog’s idiosyncratic toilet habits. My pug Grendel now dances to my tune, be it on walks, in the garden or merely impressing friends and family. A word of caution - take care when choosing your “command words” and “smart phrases” to avoid words your dog is likely to hear on the television. It took 4 episodes of Ali McBeal before I realised that my “full evacuation” command was in the theme song. > [@](#): > > Surviving Divorce: A Handbook for Men by Gay Search > 33 of 35 people found the following review helpful: > **Insightful** > A well-written and challenging book which I bought for my Uncle Sandy as he attempts to cope with the aftershock of divorce. Unfortunately he thought the author’s name was a coping strategy being suggested and he refused to read it. This guy is my new hero. ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/2 "2002-10-29T18:42:17Z")
I must agree. I read about him in that thread as well and spent the better part of a morning attempting to not spew hot coffee out of my nose. The ongoing commentary about his wife’s weight is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/3 "2002-10-29T18:49:09Z")
Is there any way to get this guy on the Dope? If we can add him to **Rue** and **Nostradomus** , I think we’d have the trifecta. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/4 "2002-10-30T03:40:13Z")
I discovered Raddick when someone mentioned him in [this Pit thread on Amazon reviewers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140129). The guy is hilarious. My favorite: > [@](#): > > **Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father by Aaron Fricke, Walter Fricke** > A well-written book with a movingly told story which I initially bought just to leave lying around the house. My son Jonathan (who’s straight) may think he’s won the pierced nose battle, but I will win the mind-games war on the issue. ---
**Author:** ![H8\_2\_W8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/5 "2002-10-30T12:54:07Z")
My favorite was his review of “The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women” * * * Not well-received, April 30, 2001 Reviewer: Henry Raddick (see more about me) from London UK Be careful and think long and hard before you give this book to your wife or girlfriend as a gift. As I learnt to my cost, if she looks at it in horror you won’t be able to tell her that you are a little drunk and just slipped. * * * [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573440280/qid=1035981902/sr=8-1/ref=sr\_8\_1/104-3363628-9113544?v=glance&n=507846](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573440280/qid=1035981902/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-3363628-9113544?v=glance&n=507846) ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/6 "2002-10-31T12:29:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Atlas of Scrotal Ultrasound by Brigitte Martin > > 22 of 24 people found the following review helpful: > > map would suffice February 15, 2002 > As a bored radiographer who would rejoice never to have to spatula another octagenarian’s jewels onto the plate again in his life I have to say that Ms Martin imbues the subject with a sense of glamour it hardly merits. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/henry-raddick-poet-laureate-of-amazon-com/134423/7 "2002-10-31T13:28:32Z")
As someone who started a Henry Raddick Appreciation thread a while ago, I have to add my favourite > [@](#): > > **Die anorectalen Fisteln** by Friedrich Stelzner > 13 of 14 people found the following review helpful: > > Sublime grandiloquence February 6, 2002 > > Nothing expresses the brutal grandeur of rectal polyps and anal fistulae quite like the mother-tongue of Goethe. Literary genius.