Amazon World (www.amazonworld.blogspot.com) highlights some of the more interesting -- make that bizarre -- reader reviews found at Amazon.com.
This can seem bizarre if your reader doesn't "get" the joke.
The scene instantly goes from that special, bizarre corner of a reader's imagination where Murakami has a monopoly, and is slammed down onto the cold, hard pavement of Real Life.
But the story of Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an Estonian-raised, ethnically German, tsarist officer, who became the last khan of Mongolia amid the chaos of the Russian civil war, has so many bizarre elements that the reader will soon believe almost anything.James Palmer's account of his brutal and ill-starred life is elegant, waspish and evocative.
Mr. Hughes called such language bizarre, and said some readers had threatened to cancel their subscriptions.
It will probably strike readers as bizarre that many stammerers are not entirely ungrateful for their impediment, myself included.
In the absence of a photograph, the magazine strained to explain this bizarre phenomenon to its readers.
I find myself of one mind with the readers of Bizarre, who in 2003 voted Thorpeness Britain's weirdest village.
As for the core mystery, its resolution is bizarre enough to satisfy readers who survive the longueurs of the journey.
In a recent post, I discussed the nontaxation of imputed rent – the income homeowners receive from themselves by virtue of being both landlord and renter – which, judging by the comments, many readers found bizarre.
Otherwise, make your beginning something so bizarre and comical that readers will say "What?" or "That's impossible!" Just remember that what you hope to accomplish is to create a beginning that draws your audience in.
