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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In general, Amazon is a business and is free to choose not to carry a book if they feel that it would be bad for business. Of course the flip side of pulling a book because some object to it is that you normally get blow back when you that. That's one reason that Amazon carries some anti-Amazon books.
Just to give my 2 cents worth on the overall topic of the thread, people are certainly free to condemn anything they want to, and I'm free to ignore them, which is what I normally do.
When looking at a given book, I know up front that certain authors or subjects will attract a group of "reviewers" who give stars based on the author or subject, not the book in hand. I tend to look at the spread of the ratings, and then read the more helpful reviews. You know the ones that don't start "Author X is evil and I wish he would die a horrible death" or "Author X is the most wonderful person in the world".
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It seems that most books I look up on Goodreads have an overall star rating of about 4. I ignore that and look at the actual reviews. I usually skip the gushing five-star reviews and look for the 3-stars as those reviewers often talk about both what's good and what's bad about a book. I will spot-read a couple of 1- or 2-star reviews in case there is something truly bad about the book that would make me want to avoid it.