Hillary book getting bombed on Amazon--Hilarious reviews.

"...1.0 out of 5 starsUnbelievable turn of events.......... By Daniel B. on September 14, 2016 Format: Paperback I was going to read this book.....I really was. But just as I got started, I found myself under sniper fire, passed out, and fell and hit my head. After that I got double vision and had to wear glasses that were so damn thick I couldn't even see to read. Then I had an allergic reaction to something and started coughing so hard I spit out what looked like a couple of lizard's eyeballs, my limbs locked up, and I passed out and fell down again, waking up only to find out I had been diagnosed with pneumonia 2 days earlier. Somehow I managed to power through it all, but it's a good thing I was able to make a small fortune on this random small trade in the commodities market (cattle futures or some such thing) and then, miracle of all miracles, a few banks offered me a few million to just talk to their employees for a few minutes - and all that really helped out because I swear I was dead broke and couldn't figure out how I was gonna come up with the 6 bucks to pay for this book, let alone pay the $1,500 for my health insurance this month. I still want to read it, but, honestly, what difference at this point does it make? I hear it sucks anyway..."

Whoever said read the five star reviews...thx, they are funny, too. Here’s one:

*** This magnificent book bring everyone that purchases it good luck!

After I bought it. I found a wet sofa somebody dumped on the street. I high scored in Donkey Kong.

And my hot bachelor pad of love DOUBLED in size once mom moved her car out of the garage.

Plus it has magical powers to the spirit world. At midnight in a dark room. Hold this book to your chest and shout into a
mirror three times Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! You’ll hear a shrieking, hideous voice from the underworld that sounds like my mother screaming “Shut up you useless piece of crap and get a job!!

The spirit world is a mysterious place.***

Another good review, giving her five stars:

5 stars because I don’t want to wind up as part of Killary’s body count.
Best sections were:
Chapter 1: Technology in the new world order- How to setup your very own server in your basement and buy blackberries from ebay
Chapter 2: Information Security- Leave no trace behind of data under subpoena usIng nothing but hammers and bleach (bit). Learn how to recognize classified information in just 5 easy steps.
Chapter 3: Personal Financial Security- create a family foundation, profit from pay to play, enrich yourself, your loved ones, colleagues and friends
Chapter 4: Legal advice- All about immunity, pleading the 5th, lawyering up, stealth meeting with justice dept officials and how to avoid prosecution by the FBI
Chapter 5: Home remedies for common health issues such as Parkinsons, Dementia, Epilepsy, Allergies, Chronic cough, the flu heat stroke and Pneumonia
Chapter 6: How to make extra income in your spare time- make 6 figures in just 30 min for making speaches to Corporations, dictators, wealthy donors and more. Bonus info on how to keep any transcripts under wraps.
Chapter 7: Feminism my personal journey- Learn how to pander to the female voter while taking money from Sharia law nations at the same time
Chapter 8: Gun control- How to attack the 2nd amendment and avoid being called a hypocrite when you have full time armed security at tax payer expense.
Chapter 9: Carpet bagging for dummies- How to buy a home in Chappaqua, easily get elected Senator in a liberal democratic state, accomplish nothing but build credentials for a presidential run at the same time
Chapter 10: Womens health issues- Planned parenthood options in the event your loved one impregnates a vulnerable intern and you can’t have her silenced or killed
Chapter 11: How to sway main stream media because you are the chosen one

No argument. I just don’t think using a venue like Amazon reviews is the way to do it. There are lots of authors whose writing is political. Real critique and discussion is valid and valuable. But slamming someone via their reviews as a political troll will spill over onto people on our own side. The potential is there to invalidate the entire public review process, which is important, especially for indie writers.

People already give one-star reviews to authors based solely on disagreement with a character’s politics. That is unfortunate and a misuse of freedom of speech. It seeks to penalize someone for creative thought and expression when the object is to evaluate presentation, skill and mastery of form and material. Still, done individually, it is a valid form of critique. Done en masse, it reeks of bullying.

I’m not against ridicule of the deserving. I’m not even against trolling, per se. I just wish this particular venue was not polluted by political action. I would hate to see this done to Bracken or Coonts or Trump or any future writer presenting our side of things. It feeds the stupid *haters gonna hate* memes as well as destroys the KDP platform, which is vital to very capitalistic and entrepreneurial creative expressions used by independent writers to break free of controlling traditional publishing restrictions. Which, BTW, is why a writer like Stephen Coonts had to publish his latest work, ‘Liberty’s Last Stand’, with Regnery because liberal trad publishers wouldn’t touch a book where the tyrant is named Barry Soetoro. Book highly recommended, BTW,

Wanna Alinsky Hillary? Go to Cafe Press or the other printing sites, make your meme, put your own money where your own mouth is, set up your own online store on your own domain and ridicule Hillary or the progs forever. Don’t sh!+ in some one else’s watershed and call it political activism.

When I saw this thread, I was expecting well-thought out, witty and valid negative reviews. God knows, she deserves them, the book deserves them and Kaine deserves them. What I found was a juvenile, endlessly self-indulgent and derivative pile-on which I dislike for the reasons stated above.

But, feel free to denigrate my reaction with repetitive ad hominems because it violates the group-think of the day. Online graffiti for its own sake is always cathartic for the tagger, no matter how destructive to the chosen venue. In this case, Amazon reviews are posted on private property made available free of charge to readers who bought (or downloaded on promotion) a book for their personal opinions regarding published work and, IMO, this is vandalism.

I have seen books/authors trolled before. I am not faint of heart, but the examples I have witnessed were directed at a teen author’s successful romance novel solely because the trollers’ novels failed. In that instance, Amazon acted.

YMMV

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