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Originally Posted by Fbone
Also, I don't rate a book that I don't finish.
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I, too, don't rate a book that I don't finish although I am sorely tempted to do so (giving it 1 or 2 stars based on my criteria which I elucidated in an earlier post in this thread). My primary reason for not giving such a book any rating is that I want to be certain of why I am not finishing the book. Occasionally it is because I'm just not in the mood to read a book in the particular genre at the moment, thus I might (although highly doubtful) retry the book at a future date.
Sadly, the usual reason for not finishing a book I've started is that it is a 1- or 2-star book (according to my rating criteria) and thus the author should be pummeled with rotten tomatoes for pressing the Send (or Print) button on their computer. In fact, they should have their computers taken away to save readers from further torment.
I suspect that Dante would have yet another level of Hell if he were writing today -- a level dedicated to wannabe authors who shouldn't be wannabe authors because their "masterpiece" is equivalent to torture by waterboarding.