Jasmine’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2010)

Jasmine’s comments from the The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) group.

i write my reviews for karen's dad.

I've met her. she didn't grow at all after that movie.

I am pro that policy. I found it so depressing when matilda was bad.

Mykle wrote: "Word! But I think Amazon needs better reviews. You shouldn't feel the need to dumb yourself down!

Too many Amazon reviews are just play-by-plays of consumption: customer purchased the product, c..."

that might have to do with the fact it is a cite where you can buy everything. probably the same people review all the products.

also even here you get those but since you follow reviews instead of reviews they are easier to avoid.

I know what you mean. Flaubert was the most drastic one I've had, but I constantly move things one star.

lets start with a metphor:

when I was in college my friend took me to go see "let's go to prison" I didn't understand what I was agreeing to at the time. For years I complained about wasting time and referred to the movie as "What would happen if the coen brothers failed". Now I find that I feel like I like the movie. I've never seen it again and never intend to, but somehow I've grown fond of it.

Sometimes this happens to me with books. At one point I was talking to someone about madame bovary, recommending it in fact and they pointed out I had given it two stars. I immediately bumped my rating to four stars and still have no idea why I thought it only merited 2.

Does this happen to other people?

I write my reviews for myself, I tend to process things in writing (which is why I don't rate things in most cases until after I've written a review). But I am aware of who reads my reviews. I know that Karen reads all my reviews, that mfso reads some of them, I perceive him as reading my philosophy/nonfiction reviews more, but I don't know if that is actually true. I know recently msmurphy has read a lot of my reviews. I don't so much right to those people as an audience, but I do try to avoid insulting them. When I reviewed Jonathan Coe I was trying to be nice about him because Karen liked him, just like she was being nice in her review of nick harkaway.

On the other hand I also sometimes do things because I am combating an opinion of an audience. For example, originally I gave the new foer book 5 stars because I knew all my friends thought it was stupid, and I wanted to get their attention and point out that they were wrong and it was well done.

I think the biggest effect for me is the audience that I don't have. I mean on myspace I'm dealing with a couple of exes and a lot of religious people. On facebook I have a number of those same religious people that I'm friends with, almost my entire family (from my grandmother to my 11 year old sister) and a lot of the people I work with (both at the store and research and from when I was at the detox). So as a general rule those cites have to be heavily censored and I don't feel like that's important here since no one actually knows me well enough or cares enough to be disappointed in most cases.

Mykle wrote: "Jasmine wrote: "... although amazon gets annoyed with the language I use in reviews and commonly refuses to post them "

Right! People are always telling me their Amazon reviews of RAMPAGING FUCKER..."

well the main problem is it won't tell you why it's rejecting them. I finally figured it out when I posted a review on b&N and they yelled at me for language

i thought you might be the one who was actually studying english but I couldn't remember. rhetoric is fun.

tears and rain by james blunt is about dorian grey

agreed. I think it's like, "that's right"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...

well i...

oh wait this is about him.

.... I'm guessing library science because most people in the world are studying library science.

I have to write an IRB over the break for online surveys. If I hit anything that might help you I'll let you know in as boring a manner as possible. but a lot of it is institution specific.

Michael wrote: "he's not kidding I asked him a question and the answer was totally boring.

but I think he might have been getting back at me for asking a super boring question.

Thanks, Jasmine! Glad you go..."

yeah and then I had to read and send multiple emails about it and finds links and stuff it was like I was doing a project!

he probably should have an irb if he is talking to people, but sometimes if you have no intention of publishing no one actually cares.

I know when I was in college you only needed to do hat stuff if you were using data outside of class.

he's not kidding I asked him a question and the answer was totally boring.

but I think he might have been getting back at me for asking a super boring question.

I love william blake.


handels messiah isnspired by the bible!

apparently there is a problem with prion diseases in venison because it is basically unregulated

it's favorite reviews all the links go to reviews of the book written by the person specified.

I don't. it never occurred to me.