reddit ask: What are some book REVIEW tropes that get on your nerves?
reddit user @localcokedrinker asked "What are some book REVIEW tropes that get on your nerves?" and here are some of the answers, you can read the whole thing at the source.
- One of my favorite reviewers stated listening to audiobooks, and every third review they post now is “2 stars, though how much of that was due to my dislike for AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR’s delivery or that I was listening in 2.5 speed” like 🤨 is that a fair rating of the book then.
- "Dragons. Robots. Time Travel. Enemies to Lovers. NEED I SAY MORE?" Yes please? This isn't a review, it's just a list of tropes. If you leave the review here, I will assume that the book is just a bunch of tropes, and I'm guessing it isn't? It probably has a plot and characters - what are they like?
- People on Goodreads who spam gifs after like every paragraph. We get it, you don't need to give us a visual image to describe every single reaction you're feeling. Use your words.
- "This book really picks up after the first 300 pages..." well then it's a failure. I shouldn't have to read 300 pages for a book to start picking up. Suffering through bad writing to get to a good ending does not make a good book.
- "Read the full review on my blog here:" No. I am on Goodreads to curate all the reviews so I can get a feel for the book.
- Classic reviews:
"I didn't relate to any character." For literally any book ever I hate this criticism. Shut up.
"The protagonist/main characters were so annoying and unlikable" (99% chance it was intentional and part of what actually makes the book good, see: Catcher in the Rye, The Sun Also Rises, Great Gatsby).
"Nothing happens. It's just ''x person/people x-ing". (As a criticism; Somehow people are yet to discover what character driven narratives are. E.g. The Old Man and the Sea).
"It's racist/sexist/mysoginistic". Sure, it's valid thing to comment on and discuss, but if you're going to say a book is bad because of those things when you're reading a fictional work from 1800s America I'll immediately disregarding anything the review has to say.
Bulding on the last point, but confusing a fictional work with the author's beliefs. No, Nabokov is not supporting pedophilia. Stop being stupid.
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what type of reviews do you dislike??
- One of my favorite reviewers stated listening to audiobooks, and every third review they post now is “2 stars, though how much of that was due to my dislike for AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR’s delivery or that I was listening in 2.5 speed” like 🤨 is that a fair rating of the book then.
- "Dragons. Robots. Time Travel. Enemies to Lovers. NEED I SAY MORE?" Yes please? This isn't a review, it's just a list of tropes. If you leave the review here, I will assume that the book is just a bunch of tropes, and I'm guessing it isn't? It probably has a plot and characters - what are they like?
- People on Goodreads who spam gifs after like every paragraph. We get it, you don't need to give us a visual image to describe every single reaction you're feeling. Use your words.
- "This book really picks up after the first 300 pages..." well then it's a failure. I shouldn't have to read 300 pages for a book to start picking up. Suffering through bad writing to get to a good ending does not make a good book.
- "Read the full review on my blog here:" No. I am on Goodreads to curate all the reviews so I can get a feel for the book.
- Classic reviews:
"I didn't relate to any character." For literally any book ever I hate this criticism. Shut up.
"The protagonist/main characters were so annoying and unlikable" (99% chance it was intentional and part of what actually makes the book good, see: Catcher in the Rye, The Sun Also Rises, Great Gatsby).
"Nothing happens. It's just ''x person/people x-ing". (As a criticism; Somehow people are yet to discover what character driven narratives are. E.g. The Old Man and the Sea).
"It's racist/sexist/mysoginistic". Sure, it's valid thing to comment on and discuss, but if you're going to say a book is bad because of those things when you're reading a fictional work from 1800s America I'll immediately disregarding anything the review has to say.
Bulding on the last point, but confusing a fictional work with the author's beliefs. No, Nabokov is not supporting pedophilia. Stop being stupid.
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what type of reviews do you dislike??