I plan to post occasional reviews about books I'm reading or have read. It
will be a mix of older and newer books. You'll notice that probably all of them
are positive reviews. There are a few reasons for this.
First off, my
time is limited, so if I'm not enjoying a book, I will either stop reading or
start skimming, not reading carefully enough to fairly review it.
Second, if I
don't enjoy reading something, I won't enjoy writing about it. Plus there's
enough negativity in the world at large, and I don't enjoy contributing to it.
Finally, reading is such a subjective experience: the things I hate might be
the exact thing another reader might love about a book, so I don't feel it's
fair to trash a book just because it didn't work for me. Gravity's Rainbow
would be an example of this, where even the 100 pages of it I did read were
torture, but many people with much more impressive credentials assure me it's a
work of genius.
In the end, I hope in my reviews to help match the book with the
type of reader that might enjoy it.
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