Readers with one and two star Amazon reviews for this book tend to get hounded.

Also see Misanthropic Reader's post.

I've always wondered what other people do in regards to reading reviews before reading a book. Right now I try not to read other people's reviews before diving into a book (except reviews by people I follow). Before when I used to read some reviews by people before I read the book I found that those reviews were affecting the way I read the book. I started to see the book how the reviewer saw the book and didn't come into reading the book with a clean slate and form my own opinions of it. Finally I just decided to read the synopsis of the book and just barely glance at the reviews of it. What do you do before you read a book, do you read the reviews or not?