That seems to be the spirit with most of the reviews I've seen lately.
Schools are teaching book reports as summaries (at least my older two kids were required to create opinion-less book reports), and I think that carries over into what is considered a review.
Then again, the whole über-critic thing fails me as well. They often seem to miss the point in order to appear elegant, educated, and/or malignant.
Mine tend to go in the other direction - they're purely impressions. Or tangents.
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Date: 2008-04-24 12:01 am (UTC)That seems to be the spirit with most of the reviews I've seen lately.
Schools are teaching book reports as summaries (at least my older two kids were required to create opinion-less book reports), and I think that carries over into what is considered a review.
Then again, the whole über-critic thing fails me as well. They often seem to miss the point in order to appear elegant, educated, and/or malignant.
Mine tend to go in the other direction - they're purely impressions. Or tangents.