A cryptic ( hilarious ? ) bug appeared to temporarily drag down the Amazon customer rating for Bob Woodward ’s new book about the Trump administration ’s first twelvemonth in situation .
On Wednesday , reviews on Amazon for the just - releasedWoodward book Fearbecame intermix , somehow , with reviews foran L. Ron Hubbard novelette by the same name . A pregnant number of the negative review attached to Woodward ’s book — orders for which have outpace Amazon ’s supply — referenced the Church of Scientology founder ’s psychological thriller , as seen in the screenshot below :
“ I discover fearfulness to be the biggest composition of drivel I have ever say , ” wrote one Amazon client , who , while arrogate not to be a Scientologist , swears he ’s no “ Hubbard - hater ” either . The review was one of dozens impermanent coupled with Woodward ’s book on the web site .
Another screenshot below render reviews for Woodward and Hubbard ’s respective work back to back , with one reviewer commenting that Woodward ’s book left her “ not disliking Trump as much as [ she ] did before . ” The reviewers offer the same rating , three stars , but for altogether polar reasons .
care is the title of Hubbard ’s 13th skill fiction novel release in 1951 , two year before the Church of Scientology was founded . The story centers around a university prof haunted by visions of demons and wraith , which ( mollycoddler alert ) rick out to be the issue of a psychotic break . Hubbard authored a amount of 29 novels , including the ten - volume Mission Earth serial publication , which was publish almost entirely after his death , in addition to dozens of forgetful history under a variety of pseudonym .
Amazon took down the reviews for Woodward ’s book shortly after Gizmodo reach out out for comment . Fear ’s rating was restored soon after with all mentions of Hubbard call off , save one :
After the mistake was corrected , intimately every one - asterisk inspection for Woodward ’s Fear was write by a customer who accidentally order the wrong variant and had not actually read the book itself , because some masses are easily frustrate and apparently have no idea what the review section is actually for .
Amazon did not respond to our petition for gossip .
Woodward ’s newspaper publisher , Simon & Schuster , has reportedly ordered a 9th printing of Fear , which reportedly pull together more pre - monastic order sale than any other script in the company ’s 94 - year account .
Over 1.1 million hardcover copies have been dictate so far , accord to theWashington Post , where Woodward and then - confrere Carl Bernstein famously broke the news of the Nixon Watergate scandal in 1972 .
Woodward ’s Word is portrayed by critic as a sober glimpse into a West Wing submerged in a swamp of self - inflect controversy , where elderly aides , when noting sliting each others ’ throat , call foul on the decision - making module of their boss , the land ’s commander in chieftain , Donald Trump .
The volume already famously depict Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn and Rob Porter , the chairman ’s former staff secretary , colluding to keep sure documents off the President of the United States ’s desk , including one which might ’ve withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement .
Although Fear does relies heavy on unnamed sources ( as is distinctive for Woodward , who argues that “ deep background ” sourcing is essential to learning the truth ) , other first - hand account of the Trump administration ’s internal bedlam have mostly come before from far less reputable voices , such as , most lately , former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman , considered by many of the president ’s top critics to be as equally fickle and ego - serving as the president .
Woodward ’s believability as a renowned investigative newsperson , however , gives the oft - heard accounts of incompetency and disarray in the White House a veneer of believability that Trump functionary are straining to degrade .
In his review for theNew York Times , Dwight Garner comment that Australian critic Clive James once kvetch about Woodward checking his facts “ until they weep with tedium . ” “ Well , fact - checking and boredom seem aphrodisiacal again , ” writes Garner . “ Even weep is making a comeback . ”
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