{"id":4372,"date":"2011-01-13T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2011-01-13T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:38:00","slug":"reading-negative-reviews-just-beacuase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"Reading Negative Reviews Just Beacuase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There can be a joy in reading negative reviews where the reviewer appears to have seen some Earth-Two version of the novel, movie, or game in question. Charlie Stross recently revisited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/01\/faint-praise.html\">Amazon one-star reviews of classic books<\/a>. One of my favorites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R1T1XVLERA2GZA\/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0679728228&amp;nodeID=&amp;tag=&amp;linkCode=\">from Robert Bolt&#8217;s play &#8220;A Man for All Seasons&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is long and boring. I was uninterested in reading this so called play  as soon as I read the first page. It is lame and slow. I highly  recomend  discarding this play before you realize what I have  realized&#8230;&#8230;.it is  not worth your time and effort!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Author John Scalzi went a step further, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/02\/22\/one-star-reviews-revisited\/\">encouraging authors to own one-star reviews of their books<\/a>. However, if we&#8217;re going to talk about negative reviews viewed as entertainment, nothing beats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/558516\">Dot Dot Dot<\/a>, in which a badly-written negative review is read aloud and set to kinetic word art.<br \/>\n<object width=\"549\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/4Z2Z23SAFVA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/4Z2Z23SAFVA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"549\" height=\"334\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now <em>that<\/em> is a negative review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There can be a joy in reading negative reviews where the reviewer appears to have seen some Earth-Two version of the novel, movie, or game in question. Charlie Stross recently revisited Amazon one-star reviews of classic books. One of my favorites is from Robert Bolt&#8217;s play &#8220;A Man for All Seasons&#8221;: It is long and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=4372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Negative Reviews Just Beacuase<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}