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Originally Posted by wgrimm
I think the problem with many self-styled "reviewers" is that they don't know shit from shinola about what constitutes good writing. It's the same sort of thing I see when the silly and uninformed make claims like "I don't know about art but I know what I like." Usually in the next sentence you will hear them tell you how great Norman Rockwell was and how terrible Picasso was...
We need gatekeepers, but I am not so sure that the average reader really makes a good gatekeeper.
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I agree with all of the above EXCEPT for the third sentence.
I'm certainly no art critic, and this may not be book-related, but IMHO, Picasso is vastly overrated. If the art critics like him, they can keep him. I prefer paintings of people that look like people, not hasty, ill-drawn sketches of mutants with cubes instead of heads. I know a lot of people love him, but I can't bring myself to share their taste...maybe I just don't understand art
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Other than that, however, I agree with what you're saying. We need some way to review Smashwords books or rate their quality so readers can tell the best from the rest. Gosh darn it, where are all the artificial intelligence devices the sci-fi authors always promised us! We need an AI that can speed-read through books and deliver a brief, honest summary and review of each one. That's the great thing about robots, they're so much more efficient than homo sapiens and they never get bored, too...
