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Originally Posted by radleyp
You can't "test" a book to determine whether it's "good" or "bad" ....
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Oh, I don't know. You could get into an analysis (remember: the first half of "analysis" is "anal"!) of writing style, word usage, plot and character development, and such, but that requires a lot of work, and at some level even that will come down to some sort of subjective evaluation (this plot technique is better than that one, etc.). Matters of taste may be indisputable, but they're a lot easier to discuss, and they're probably more informative to discuss for the non-literary critic type.
Just my opinion, of course.
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Originally Posted by Patricia
(Sorry: I can't help being pedantic occasionally.)
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Occupational hazard, I'm sure (said one pedant to another).
