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MORE 'ONE-STAR-REVIEW' POSTS

    One Star Review Guess Who? (#69)

    Travis Jonker, July 13, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? Here is the first betrayal in a long life of betrayals, child. Your parents told you it was a classic, didn’t they? Their eyes were probably limpid with nostalgia as they gave it to you. “It’s about imagination,” they […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#68)

    Travis Jonker, June 15, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? These are gross books. They tend to sell a lot of these at school book fairs, but they are NOT quality material for children. There are lots of misspelled words and the manners are crude to say the least. […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#67)

    Travis Jonker, May 11, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? The whole thing made going to the dentist sound even worse than how I thought of it before. Why is it showing pictures of blood? Isn’t this for children? I feel traumatized and I’m an adult. Click here for […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who (#66)

    Travis Jonker, April 20, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? Very nice present from cousins! Unfortunately, the page where all of the dots fall to one side made us very sad for some reason. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? Click here. Previously . . […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#65)

    Travis Jonker, April 6, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? I should have stopped reading it when the nosebleeds started. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? Click here. Previously . . . One Star Review Guess Who (#1) One Star Review Guess Who (#2) One […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#64)

    Travis Jonker, February 2, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? If you are lazy enough to sleep on the job, you deserve to have your hats stolen. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? Click here. Previously . . . One Star Review Guess Who (#1) […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#63)

    Travis Jonker, January 12, 2018 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? DO NOT LET YOUR CHILD READ THIS BOOK unless you are prepared to sit with them and explain how *wrong* every action in the book is! […] The “bad guy” is simply rich and mean, but doesn’t seem to be […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#62)

    Travis Jonker, November 16, 2017 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? a good book actually, i just didnt like the name. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? Click here. Previously . . . One Star Review Guess Who (#1) One Star Review Guess Who (#2) One […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#61)

    Travis Jonker, October 20, 2017 | One Star Review, Reviews

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? Well, there’s five hours of my life I’ll never get back! I went into this book with such high expectations: a Newbery Award winner, rave reviews from readers of all ages… what could go wrong? I just didn’t get […]

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    One Star Review Guess Who? (#60)

    Travis Jonker, October 6, 2017 | One Star Review

    Can you guess the classic children’s book by its scathing one-star review on Goodreads or Amazon? Mrs. Mallard raises the children while Mr. Mallard decides “he’d like to explore the rest of the river.” Yeah. Like she’s gonna believe that. Click here for the answer. Why do I share these? Click here. Previously . . […]

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