Once upon a time I regularly wrote up books for Amazon UK, providing the official "Voice of Amazon" reviews as formerly linked below; but Amazon's ghastly database kept losing the reviews from their pages and now I prefer not to link to Amazon anyway. Instead, all the reviews are collected along with much else in my ebook Short Shrift: A Big Book of Little Reviews, which see. Sometimes the same reviews turned up at Amazon.com. – David Langford. Earlier Amazon years are archived on separate pages – see menu bar above.
Graphic Horror!
2005: Commissioned reviews at Amazon.co.uk are in serious decline. I hope it's not just me. Here are some dinky little graphics showing the Langford review totals in the years since I started. (These figures include a few repeats – paperback reissues of books reviewed in more expensive formats. Without repeats, the figure for 2005 is 2.)
1999 136 reviews
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2000 120 reviews
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2001 50 reviews
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2002 39 reviews
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2003 33 reviews
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2004 6 reviews
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2005 4 reviews
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2006 0 reviews
2007 0 reviews
2008 0 reviews
I think I'll stop updating this increasingly monotonous chart now....
August 2005 - [16 Aug] Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return – Voyager paperback fantasy. "Conclave of Shadows" 3. Reissue of 2004 title ISBN 0006483593 • AbeBooks
- [1 Aug] Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant – Orbit sf hardback. "The Shadow Saga" 4; spinoff from "Ender" series. ISBN 1841492051 • AbeBooks
Also trade paperback (not seen): ISBN 1841492345 • AbeBooks
March 2005 - [23 Mar] Richard Morgan, Woken Furies – Gollancz sf hardback. Third Takeshi Kovacs novel. ISBN 057507325X • AbeBooks
Also export trade paperback: ISBN 0575073268 • AbeBooks- [10 Mar] Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return – Voyager trade paperback fantasy. "Conclave of Shadows" 3. Reissue of 2004 title. ISBN 0002246872 • AbeBooks
February 2005 - [7 Feb] Terry Goodkind, Chainfire – Voyager hardback fantasy. Although the blurb implies a standalone novel ("... a powerful new story set in a fascinating world ..."), this is in fact "Sword of Truth" book 9. ISBN 0007145608 • AbeBooks
October 2004 - [13 Oct] Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist – Orbit sf hardback. ISBN 1841491551 • AbeBooks
- [6 Oct] James Barclay, Demonstorm – Gollancz hardback fantasy. "Legends of the Raven" sequence. ISBN 0575073322 • AbeBooks
Also trade paperback (not seen): ISBN 0575073330 • AbeBooks- [5 Oct] Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return – Voyager hardback fantasy. "Conclave of Shadows" 3. ISBN 000224683X • AbeBooks
June 2004 - [23 Jun] David & Leigh Eddings, The Treasured One – HarperCollins fantasy hardback. "Book Two of the Dreamers." ISBN 0007157614 • AbeBooks