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I had to stick some book into the "context" area for a post. I pondered a few, and thought that SISL was a formative instruction manual way back when. That's the only reason this comment about rating is attached to SISL (great acronym!)
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Jun 18, 2016 03:59PM
I had to stick some book into the "context" area for a post. I pondered a few, and thought that SISL was a formative instruction manual way back when. That's the only reason this comment about rating is attached to SISL (great acronym!)
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Oh, that's even more interesting. I tend to do the same. I have a few 4's, some 3's, and a couple of 1's. A "1" I reserve for a book which I believe has little or no literary value and is written to make money. Period. I can think of only a single book I've rated that way, and why I finished it I can't tell you. It must have been mounting disbelief that it was a prize list nominee; I had some belief it must redeem itself in the end, but it didn't.
I guess I have two thoughts about rating. First and foremost, if a book is not for me, I don't start it, or I don't go beyond the first chapter if I've begun to read it in error. (too violent, written in a style I don't appreciate (for example, straight ahead narrative of a romance, made for the beach) (I don't go to the beach, and I may be giving beach-readers a bad name). I won't rate a book I do not complete, so I rarely, if ever (?) have occasion to write a negative review.
Second, even if I finish a book that didn't strike me as the best book in the world, I more than "liked it," or more than "liked it a lot (I hate that expression)", or really liked it, or whatever 4 stars is. I always give an excellent book an extra star simply for existing, for the work it took by its author, as a tribute to someone who gifted me with something I could not accomplish myself.
Sounds silly. I want to encourage writers, not beat them with a stick.
I guess I have two thoughts about rating. First and foremost, if a book is not for me, I don't start it, or I don't go beyond the first chapter if I've begun to read it in error. (too violent, written in a style I don't appreciate (for example, straight ahead narrative of a romance, made for the beach) (I don't go to the beach, and I may be giving beach-readers a bad name). I won't rate a book I do not complete, so I rarely, if ever (?) have occasion to write a negative review.
Second, even if I finish a book that didn't strike me as the best book in the world, I more than "liked it," or more than "liked it a lot (I hate that expression)", or really liked it, or whatever 4 stars is. I always give an excellent book an extra star simply for existing, for the work it took by its author, as a tribute to someone who gifted me with something I could not accomplish myself.
Sounds silly. I want to encourage writers, not beat them with a stick.
