[ SECRET POST #2387 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋

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Comments

[elephantinegrace]

If all it takes for me to decide not to buy a book at a store is reading the summary, then only reading the first chapter of 50 Shades is enough for me to decide it's a terrible book. Not to mention that people have posted some of the worst paragraphs and sentences online. I think I've read enough of the book to decide that I can go without reading the rest of it.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a difference between wanting to read a book, and critiquing it. You can decide for yourself that you don't want to read something in a few sentences. From the back cover, or even the front cover if you like.

But if you want to analyze and criticize something, you should have an informed opinion. I think that's what OP is talking about. If someone is gonna rag on a book for such and such things, maybe they should from their own opinion about it rather than just regurgitate the shit they read about it online.

[(Anonymous)]

But how the hell do you wade through tripe that bad without your brain dribbling out of your ears?

[(Anonymous)]

As a kid I sat down and read all of Dragon Ball, at the insistence of people that my critique of it was not based on actual knowledge of the thing. I did not learn anything after volume 2 that changed my opinion, but I did waste hours of my life.

Likewise, nobody needs to have read the whole of Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey if their critique is levelled only at the themes of these books, because knowledge of those themes can be acquired second hand. Nobody needs to have read the whole of it to critique the writing style, because excerpts are readily available.

Yes, if someone were writing a review for, say, a paper or a review site, rather than merely discussing their own personal opinion, research should probably involve at least reading more of the high-lighted problem areas, if not the whole thing (depending on the seriousness of where the review is published).

For casual discourse, second hand information is plenty good enough.