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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Umm I do not understand this mentality... why read the review AFTER you read the book?
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My bad. I meant, you shouldn't read reviews that talk about weaknesses before you read the book. All other kinds of reviews? Feel free to read them at anytime
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Originally Posted by bashfulbanshee
@maianhvk: I hate reading translator's reviews. I keep on reading them when I shouldn't. So much spoilers! I think they're review type #2, but for some reason, they're been traditionally placed in the beginning of all "classic" works. It ruined Faust for me among other things.
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What you said above is perfectly like what I wanna say all the time! Why do they always tell us all the good and bad things that happen in the story, their comments, their thoughts... at the very beginning? And worse, I always forget not to read translators' reviews...