"My Pet Goat" Reviews

As heard on the Al Franken Show, Amazon.com sells a book which contains the now infamous story My Pet Goat. You may remember that this was the story President Bush was reading when he was informed of the 2nd plane hitting the World Trade Center in NYC.

He read My Pet Goat from this book. Reading Mastery - Level 2 Storybook 1.

At Amazon.com, the some of the reader reviews were quite, uh, humorous. The best was the following, which over 500 1,500 people found "useful":

Presidential material, through and through!, July 6, 2004

Reviewer:

Lolla Fallujah (Hannah Storm's house) - See all my reviews

After reading the enclosed story "The Pet Goat," I was stunned by its lyrical beauty and easy cadence. The tempo, the choice of words, and the layout on each page captured my imagination so much that it took me about seven minutes to recover my bearings.

(Pause to quietly chuckle)

Amazingly, within 2 hours after airing this funny little thing, Amazon.com removed ALL the customer reviews for this book from their site.

Why would they have done that? No, really, I don't get it. What do they care as long as people keep coming to their site?

Fortunately, Sadly, No has archived at least some of the choicest reviews here.
[update] And more HERE. Thanks, Sadly!