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GraceKrispy · 01-04-2011, 11:06 PM

What is up with reviewing excerpts? I run across reviews on Amazon all the time that talk about how wonderful the prose and the concept, blah blah, then they say "I love this excerpt! I want to read the whole story!"

I guess I'm perhaps alone in the idea that I don't review a book unless I read the entire thing. Maybe I would comment if I thought the book was so bad I couldn't finish it, but I wouldn't call that a review. I do see that reviewers will often review a book they didn't finish. I just don't feel like I could.

What do you think about reviewing excerpts? How about reviewing books you never finished?

01-04-2011, 11:06 PM	#1
GraceKrispy It's Dr. Penguin now! Posts: 3,909 Karma: 4705733 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: (USA) Device: iPad mini, Samsung Note 3, Sony PRS-650 (rarely used now)	Reviewing Excerpts? What is up with reviewing excerpts? I run across reviews on Amazon all the time that talk about how wonderful the prose and the concept, blah blah, then they say "I love this excerpt! I want to read the whole story!" I guess I'm perhaps alone in the idea that I don't review a book unless I read the entire thing. Maybe I would comment if I thought the book was so bad I couldn't finish it, but I wouldn't call that a review. I do see that reviewers will often review a book they didn't finish. I just don't feel like I could. What do you think about reviewing excerpts? How about reviewing books you never finished?