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Originally Posted by hrosvit
No, I think you misunderstood me.
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There was definitely a misunderstanding somewhere but I think that it is best to let it drop because we'll be going around in circles otherwise.
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...(and I'm paraphrasing from memory here, so excuse me if I'm changing your meaning)...
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This is completely
, but I don't understand why you would have to paraphrase anything from memory. You have access to the actual posts.
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Originally Posted by hrosvit
I later continued this thought by saying that if we accept the act of publishing as a "recommendation", then every single book that has ever been published has also been recommended to us, which means that this recommendation is worth absolutely nothing, and leaves us in the exact same position: trying to decide by whatever method we happen to use (recommendations from friends, interesting cover art, specific publishers, etc.) which books to read.
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So this is the perspective point where we really disagree. I don't see a recommendation as just "you should read this", but as "this is a good book to read because ...". In the case of publisher recommendations it's "... you liked the other books we published" or "... you can tell from the cover that we've selected that the story is like the others that you've liked". In the case of recommendations from people it can be "... the story and/or writing is funny/complex/compelling", "... it has interesting/charming/strong characters" and any other reasons why they liked the book. Sometimes people recommend not reading a book, but the reasons why they didn't like it would be reasons for me to read the book.