I was reading a recent article on Salon.com in which the author, Jeanette DeMain, picks a few of her favorite books and then goes to Amazon.com and checks out the reviews for those books. Many of her picks are classics, such as Charlotte’s Web or Grapes of Wrath and to make things interesting, she chooses to read only the one-star reviews: the reviews where people think the books are terrible. Encouraging others to do the same, I have taken her up on her offer and decided to duplicate her experiment with some of my favorite science fiction and fantasy books.