I always read Amazon's reviews for a book. Both .Com and .Co.Uk sites.
I also check how many reviews a reviewer has written, if it is 5 stars and only 1 review I don't even bother reading it. The same applies to 1 star reviews.
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Usually the 1's are written by complete idjits of one variety
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I am really really sorry but I don't consider myself "idjit" of any variety, otheriwse it would be an insult for people who respect me. But I do give some books 1 star if the books deserve it. For example,
Nation by
Terry Pratchett or
American Gods by
Neil Gaiman or
The Soddit by
Adam Roberts.
I think I could go on but I didn't write reviews on amazon for all of them or some I gave 2 stars (although actually they deserve 1 star maximum, some -1...) (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Donaldson, Bags of Bones by King, Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Redemption of Althalus by David Eddings, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia)