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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2387 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-07-17 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
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.