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by bdcravens 3204 days ago
Edit: I misread this comment, and agree that a review isn't a review if it's just a comment. Leaving my original comment for context of my error :-)

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No, they were reviews. See the screen shot in the article: it shows stars (in this case a one-star review) with the review commentary. Followed by: "Except that in all likelihood the overwhelming number of bad reviews on Clinton’s book were not from genuine readers, but from a concerted attack to bring down the average reviews on her page. By 3:05pm New York time, Amazon had apparently deleted over 900 reviews of the book."

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Grandparent's point is that it's not a real review if you didn't actually read the book, it's just a bullshit comment masquerading as a review.
Then I'd agree with that point. That's not how I read the comment, though on further reading of it, I can see that.