# "Spotlight Reviews" on amazon.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotlight-reviews-on-amazon-com/163325 "2003-03-22T07:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotlight-reviews-on-amazon-com/163325/1 "2003-03-22T07:40:21Z")
I just watched the 1990 film version of **The Lord of the Flies** , and as I usually do after watching films based on books, checked out [amazon.com](http://amazon.com)’s page for the book upon which the film was based. To my surprise, I found that my review of the book (under the alias “banger7”), written over 3 years ago, was a [“Spotlight Review”](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399501487/qid=1048317974/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7823351-1170450?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). I don’t consider it to be a great review, but evidently it was deemed good enough by [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) to be put at the front of a list of over 800 reviews. Do you have any “Spotlight Reviews”? Are there any reviews you posted on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) that you feel particularly proud of? Are there any reviews you posted on [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) that you aren’t very proud of? My review of **Lord of the Flies** is the inspiration of this thread, but all responses (including those generating negative feedback, which I have also received) concerning [amazon.com](http://amazon.com) reviews are welcome 🙂