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Originally Posted by Ned Balbo
I think the best reviews help clarify what a book is about, how it's written, what the writer's perspective is, rather than issue a summary judgment.
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I agree with what you say, though not with its inference that a review necessarily does one thing or the other. Too many reviewers are desperate to please and congratulate everything they review, and that can be nauseating, or (less often) see reviewing as a way to settle a score, which is even more nauseating.