1/30/2006

Dear Rebecca...you just reviewed my book and I wanted to thank you for that and for reminding me about World Vision. I had in fact donated to the organization in the past, but I had been wanting to do something more meaningful and just sponsored a "hope child." Many thanks again for the review and for being such an inspirational person.

~G. 

8/16/2004

I just received your review in the mail. Thank you so much for your extensive review and the fact that (I can tell) you actually read it! I am amazed by how much you read. You'd be fun to run through a whole host of topics in a meandering discussion. The New York Times asked for a book!!! 

~ H.

12/8/2003

Hi, I think your positive attitude to book reviewing is excellent. If a person reads a book he dislikes, let him forget it as soon as possible! Let him not prolong the wasted time by meditating on the experience and recording it. 

I suspect that many negative reviews are motivated by the reviewer's desire to demonstrate the refinement of his taste, and to show that every blemish, however minor, is detected by his acute mind. If this kind of refined taste were brought to perfection, however, the result would surely be a person whom nothing can please. Would that I never become so refined! I prefer the kind of taste that filters out what is bad in a book, and accentuates what is good. 

I approve of the words that the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote in his Meditations on Quixote (which perhaps you have read): "I do not believe that the important mission of criticism is to appraise literary works, dividing them into good or bad. I am becoming less interested every day in passing judgment; I feel more inclined to love things than to judge them."

Best wishes,

Paul

11/30/2002

Thank you for your beautiful reviews. Your attention to detail is outstanding. Your writing is visual and pleasantly creative.

Tony

11/23/2002

Hi, I just read your review of Ju Dou and liked it very much. Thought your review was easily the best one of the two pages I looked at. I will always take passion and feeling in a review over mere technical information. Good review! 

B. 

1/5/2002 

Rebecca,

The warm glow of your Amazon reviews makes for interesting and positive reading.  

Great recommendations!

David Laman

12/20/2000 

Rebecca,

I am a newcomer to Amazon but I think it's AmaZING! So many wonderful books and other products to choose from! The only problem (if there is one at all) is that there are too many items to choose from. I was extremely overwhelmed when I first arrived at the site and saw just how many options I had. 

Thankfully, Amazon provides reviews. As you well know! Well, some of them are wonderfully helpful, funny and informative while others are confusing and often cruel. Yours are probably the best I've seen! You are very smart and have a terrific sense of spirituality that pervades every sentence like a sweet smell enters a room. 

I'm writing to say, "Thank You", something you have most likely heard many times before. But I'm saying it anyway. I noticed you contribute fairly often and I think that is great. You have inspired me to pick up a book, read it and write about it on Amazon and maybe I might be able to possibly influence someone the way you have influenced me. You are a truly special woman.

Sincerely,

Paul   

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