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Originally Posted by issybird
Very few books deserve five stars, which makes a plethora of five-star reviews suspect--especially when that's all a book has gotten. You'd think a shiller would be canny enough to throw in a four-star review or two. In any case, a negative review (three stars or worse) is likely to be more helpful to me. Do the criticisms seem valid? Is that the kind of thing that bothers me, too?
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I always read the negative reviews first - or, well, often ONLY the negative reviews. And I often will peek at the score the same reviewer gave to other books as well. If they scored Dan Brown of Larsson high, they are out
