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quote 2014-03-08 01:34

Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length in yesterday’s commentary). I was wishing that Hamid had written a different book than he had. How I might have written this story is completely irrelevant. It would be like dismissing The Godfather because I wished it were a musical. The novel needs to be considered on its own terms.

Kevin Guilfoile, The Morning News Tournament of Books: Ozeki versus Hamid

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quote 2014-03-07 11:23

Debbie's Spurts

"... what often happens in these situations is that the author in question, who feels personally attacked ...sort of combines all of the individual critical voices together and calls “bully,” not because there is a repeated pattern of victimization, but because more than one reader criticizes the author’s commercial product..."

Source: http://dearauthor.com/features/letters-of-opinion/taking-the-bull-out-of-book-review-bullying/

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quote 2014-03-06 19:47

Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud

A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A bad reviewer is often trying to tell you how smart he is by declaring whether or not he liked a particular book. If he liked the book, then this is the kind of book a superior person likes, and vice versa. He might try to explain why he didn’t like it, but the review is really just a tautology. “I didn’t like this book because it is bad,” is equivalent to “This book is bad because I didn’t like it.”

Kevin Guilfoyle, The Tournament of Books 2014

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Source: www.themorningnews.org/tob/2014/the-luminaries-v-hill-william.php

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