Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let's just get this out in the open right away, ok? Particle board furniture is GARBAGE, ok? There. Glad that's out now. Whoever decided that furniture should be made of sawdust all pressed together and mixed with glue needs to have their face slapped repeatedly daily from here into eternity. I ordered this after reading these glowing reviews and after receiving this thing and putting it together I was firmly underwhelmed. Assembly: If this is the first time you are attempting a furniture assembly, galvanize yourself. This one will leave you crying in a corner sucking your thumb. As a dude, I'm handy. I have good tools. And experience. I went at this thing without an ounce of trepidation. I was flying through the steps, everything was going great. Then came "Step 11" on Page 15 of the manual and everything came to a grinding, particle-board infested halt. The note conveniently printed at the top says "Place the SHELF first and then the BOTTOM in position before tightening the TWIST-LOCK (trademark) FASTENERS. And herein lies the problem. Unless you have help this step is doggone near impossible. Getting those EIGHT pegs to all line up to those eight holes takes an act of Congress and it left me in a profuse sweat and cursing a blue streak the likes of which I haven't heard since I wall mounted a 60" television by myself. I ended up having to remove all eight of the fasteners, putting them in the holes by themselves (without the shelves attached), placing the shelves afterward and hammering the fasteners back into the holes. Major pain in the posterior. Quality: This is where the majority of my disappointment lies. It's flimsy. I don't know how these other reviews think this thing is solid. I can take one hand and shake it and the whole thing wobbles. The fact that everything now has a folding cardboard back that you have to nail in place is one of the biggest downfalls in modern furniture. Is there anything that screams "I'm a cheap piece of flimsy manure" louder than a cardboard accordion acting as the spine of the entire project?? I think not. It does look decent and I did enjoy the random bits of humor sprinkled throughout the assembly manual. That was unexpected. Other than that there is not much else to brag about on this piece.