Tuesday, September 6, 2016



A typical Amazon review usually discusses the product in term of the experience the owner had with the product. The product is then rated depending on the positives and negatives of the experience with the product be either good, bad, or meh. This amazon review though has quite a story to bring you into the context of the customer’s experience with the product. The intended audience though is about the same as any other audience expected. This reviewer is trying to appeal to people interested in this milk product. The only difference is that typically people prefer reviews that are concise and to the point, yet there are people who will read the entire review for the sake of the experience and story.
The entire review is a story as it starts as, “after a long hard week full of days he would burst through the door, his fatigue hidden behind a smile.” The dramatic facet of the review comes from the climax of the story as written,” Then there was that Friday, the terrible Friday that would ruin every Friday for the rest of my life.” All of the drama pours out in the second half of the The “review” then ends with a sad ending to the experience as signaled by, “That’s when I knew it was over.”  The review is a dramatic anecdote for entertainment, but informative under certain circumstances. It doesn’t fit a traditional amazon review as it’s a story for entertaining. Basically, it doesn’t really act as a review, but it can be still interpreted as one by certain individuals.

https://www.amazon.com/review/RKT07YYORZMZE/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00032G1S0&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=16310101&store=grocery

1 comment:

  1. Solid job; you give a good, concise description of the typical Amazon customer review genre in your first two sentences.

    Do you really think that the typical Amazon review audience applies here though? As you point out, the review you have chosen seems more like a dramatic narrative than a typical customer review.

    I like that you use direct quotes from the review; you could do more to explain those quotes (e.g. why did you choose these quotes specifically? How do they relate to your claim specifically?)

    On a minor point, if you were to revise this post, pay attention to verb tenses.

    Grade: Check minus

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