A Philosophy of Reviewing
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Beginning
My reviewing career started in the late 1990s when I saw a book I believed important was ignored on Amazon.com. I posted a simple look at the book, and found I had an audience. I wrote a few more.
Now, with hundreds of reviews, my work has become among the most read on Amazon, and across the web. I am quoted in magazines, websites and blogs, and books.
Perspective
I make no pretense to suggest that my reading list is consistent, my views are fair, or that my opinion matters more than yours. Just as you, I come completely independent of mind and opinion.
My curiosity drives me to explore unexpected alleyways, and this same curiosity pulls me away unexpectedly to follow another thought.
Robert Frost says a poet learns not from books, but serendipitously, much as a dog catches burrs on its fur while running through a field. I admire such dogs.
My first literary love is poetry. However, I'm just as content reading 'Frank and Ernest,' sundry nonfiction books, and odd little dictionaries as I am reading Poe or Hopkins or Masters.
Books and writing aren't my life. They are part of me, but not the whole. You might find me listening to jazz or folk music some evening, making apple sauce or watching a cicada leave its shell upon a tree stump.
The great adventure can be as well found in the furrowed soy fields of Illinois as much as by being enraptured through reading Edgar Lee Master's intimate examination of the people named in the grass-hewn graveyards of central Illinois. The best and boldest days are often hidden in the subtle and mundane.
Where Will Your Review Show?
First of all, Amazon.com. If your product is available there, I can review it.
Depending on the subject matter:
HungarianBookstore.com
AnthonyTrendl.blogspot.com (personal blog)
RunnersDilemma.blogspot.com (running-related blog)
Poetry, dictionaries, Christian/religious books, old movies, Hungarian-related materials, 1960s-1970s rock CDs. See my reviews on Amazon.com.
| Books by Hungarian authors or about Hungary and Hungarian culture Classic English-language poetry American literature before 1930 Children's literature, including Caldecott, fables, tales Distance running, and track and field English language dictionaries, and discussions of words Intercultural sociological analyses Classic rock, blues and folk music Classic movie DVDs |
Grills and grilling products ADD and learning disability related books Homeschooling-related books Christian-related books English-subtitled or dubbed Hungarian language films Comic strip compilations. Magazines and audiobooks covering any of the above topics Design software (Quark, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc.) |