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Old 10-19-2016, 02:26 AM   #103
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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi View Post
But I've certainly posted poor reviews based on the "Look Inside". You don't need to eat more than a few bites of a poorly cooked meal to know it's no good, and it doesn't take more than a few pages of a poorly written book to figure out the same. I'd write one if the problem is bad editing, illiterate writing (on the "He had always put her on a pedal stool" variety), poor formatting (books are a consumer product as well as an art form, I think formatting that's bad enough it makes reading difficult is relevant).
You are, of course, free to do that. To repurpose your metaphor, I see posting a review based on a preview as akin to judging a five-course meal based on the appetizer. For instance, I've seen several books where the editing gets noticably worse in the sex scenes - a problem that you probably won't see if you go by a front-of-book sample.

I'm not saying I'd never review a book I didn't finish, but it's not my usual practice. That's true for both positive and negative reviews, too; I remember a couple of times where the very end made or broke the whole thing. (My favorite example is the movie adaptation of Pet Sematary, which I always say was 30 seconds too long.)
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