reviews_and_ramblings (
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2010-01-04 03:23 am
My Credo?
A new friend on this LiveJournal, I will not say who to preserve the privacy but if she agrees I will do, asked me if I ever voice my likes and dislikes on books. She was very kind (and if you are wondering I was not at all bothered by the questions, I love that you made them) and she seemed really interested in my answer. She also told me that she can understand when I liked a movie, but not the same with books. She for example didn't understand my prefercenes on Genre. She asked if I'm available to discuss my reviews.
Well I decided to post my reply here since she was not the first to ask it; to some question I already posted in the past, to some other probably not.
I don't rate books and that is a choice I will not change. Other blogs do that, and I have the feeling that sometime the rating is used with other purposes. Just an example, I read a book, it was particular, sure, but I thought it was very very good. Then I read a review by another blog, it gave 1 on a rate 1 to 5. I wondered, since I'm not English and it wasn't really my genre, if I wasn't wrong in my thought. Then a very important reviewer, university professor and expert in Mystery (it was a Mystery) said to me that the book was wonderful... mmm, I still don't understand that 1.
Anyway I'm always up to discuss one of my review if people ask or leave a comment. But people don't leave comment. I'm sure people read them, I also see the outgoing clicks to buy the book (or at least to further browse it), and some publishers/authors told me that when I post a review the sells go up. So why people don't comment? I don't know. But I prefer no comment to some flaming fights/wanking feast or to have 40 comments from 5 people, I hate the long threads where the same people add something only to raise the number of comments.
I don't like all the books, only that, if I really don't like a book, I prefer to not post about it. If I liked it so and so, I try to list the positive things, but people who know me said that they can understand when the book was not exactly my liking. Same as when I love a book, my friends said that it comes clear from what I wrote.
I love historical romance, but not if they are too heavy. I like contemporary, I prefer comedy to drama, I don't like very much fantasy and even less sci-fic. I like Young Adult. But basically, I read almost all, the important thing is to capture my interest long enough.
And now, I'm ready if you want to discuss all of above ;-)
Well I decided to post my reply here since she was not the first to ask it; to some question I already posted in the past, to some other probably not.
I don't rate books and that is a choice I will not change. Other blogs do that, and I have the feeling that sometime the rating is used with other purposes. Just an example, I read a book, it was particular, sure, but I thought it was very very good. Then I read a review by another blog, it gave 1 on a rate 1 to 5. I wondered, since I'm not English and it wasn't really my genre, if I wasn't wrong in my thought. Then a very important reviewer, university professor and expert in Mystery (it was a Mystery) said to me that the book was wonderful... mmm, I still don't understand that 1.
Anyway I'm always up to discuss one of my review if people ask or leave a comment. But people don't leave comment. I'm sure people read them, I also see the outgoing clicks to buy the book (or at least to further browse it), and some publishers/authors told me that when I post a review the sells go up. So why people don't comment? I don't know. But I prefer no comment to some flaming fights/wanking feast or to have 40 comments from 5 people, I hate the long threads where the same people add something only to raise the number of comments.
I don't like all the books, only that, if I really don't like a book, I prefer to not post about it. If I liked it so and so, I try to list the positive things, but people who know me said that they can understand when the book was not exactly my liking. Same as when I love a book, my friends said that it comes clear from what I wrote.
I love historical romance, but not if they are too heavy. I like contemporary, I prefer comedy to drama, I don't like very much fantasy and even less sci-fic. I like Young Adult. But basically, I read almost all, the important thing is to capture my interest long enough.
And now, I'm ready if you want to discuss all of above ;-)
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Mi spiego, come dicevo l'altro giorno con mia sorella proprio su questo argomento, ad esempio se sono interessata ad una nuova saga di vampiri e c'è gente che da tre o quattro stelline e commenti sperticati sulla bellezza della saga, l'unica cosa che devo fare è passare sulla loro libreria e sfogliare le pagine con gli altri libri sui vampiri che hanno letto e a cui hanno dato le stelline (chi legge di vampiri è come chi legge m/m, più o meno l'ambiente e i libri sono quelli).
Quindi se per esempio vedo che la tal persona ha dato a saghe che non ho amato quattro stelline e ad altre che invece ho trovato ottime una, posso farmi un'idea di che cosa andrò a leggere.
Non so se si è capito il sistema XD
Ovviamente con questonon voglio dire che tu debba usare un rating di nessun tipo, anzi. Trovo che un blog come il tuo debba giustamente essere... come dire al di sopra delle parti. Apprezzo infatti le tue recensioni e di tanto in tanto cerco anche di lasciare commenti. Spesso non lo faccio perchè vorrei poterteli lasciare in inglese così che anche altri possano comprenderli, ma il mio inglese non è così bello come il tuo.
Quindi continua così che vai forte ragazza! e buon anno nuovo, che sia ricco di splendide letture!
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E per i commenti, come ho detto, sono felici di ricevereli, specie se servono ad aiutare qualcuno nella scelta, ma non sono essenziali ;-=) Quindi sia in Inglese che Italiano sono bene accolti, ma solo se ti senti di farli.
Elisa
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Per questo apprezzo un punto come il tuo dove cerchi di dare una recensione imparziale :)
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