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Amazon "book reviews"

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I dread to think how someone who has knocked their guts out, spending maybe a year writing a book, reacts after receiving 1-star reviews like these two prime exhibits.

Can't Amazon police this kind of risible drivel and remove it?

The reviewers might just as well have included details about a particularly unsatisfactory cold coffee at Starbucks and being splashed by a bus driver who drove his bus through a large puddle



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Honestly, sometimes I really do despair :mad::mad::mad:
 
A logged-on member can report the reviews as inappropriate, and they will often come down. I don't know if the reviewer gets notified of where to put these comments, but I know where I'd suggest.
 
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