![]() ![]() Do not accept for review a book you are predisposed to dislike, or committed by friendship to like. To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author’s ouevre or elsewhere. And then, years later, the blessed fool who picks the volume at random from a library shelf.)ĥ. (How astounded and indignant was I, when innocent, to find reviewers blabbing, and with the sublime inaccuracy of drunken lords reporting on a peasants’ revolt, all the turns of my suspenseful and surpriseful narrative! Most ironically, the only readers who approach a book as the author intends, unpolluted by pre-knowledge of the plot, are the detested reviewers themselves. ![]() Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis.Ĥ. Give him enough direct quotation-at least one extended passage-of the book’s prose so the review’s reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste.ģ. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.Ģ. ![]()
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