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Originally Posted by Rizla
Okay, but if you look at the number and score of reviews for those books on Amazon, I fear you'll find yourself in the minority. Nothing wrong with that. But if the Hugo doesn't reflect the majority of SF readers, then who does it represent? And what does it represent? Not the majority of SF readers, I would argue.
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Yes, most people seem to lack the "skill" to distinguish between very good books and books that are very readable. So when you get a bestseller you will see the opinion of people that do not read so many book dominate. So of corse it is not strange that for bestseller books you will see mostly positive reviews.
What you need to do is to look at the reviews in places were people that read a lot of sf books review. And if you check there you will see that the book that won the year The Hunger was possible to nominate or vote for did get much better reviews than The Hunger Game.