Feelings shmeelings

[koganbot]

Tom asks over on Blue Lines "Why don't reviewers write about how they feel?" I don't necessarily buy that they don't, but here's my response

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[skyecaptain]

I have a similar problem with talking about abstracted "feelings" as I do talking about abstract "taste" -- everything can be better understood, regardless of how seemingly personal it is, and more often than not "taste" AND "feelings" are invoked as conversation-enders -- or, perhaps more recently, as sly conversation diverters, so that we can talk about Taste or Feelings without having to talk about taste/feelings as it applies to X.

Anyway, most reviews I read have feeling dripping off the page/screen, even if the reviewer isn't saying "I felt ____," or if you have to do a lot of parsing for subtext (I'm not convinced that subtextual feeling is any more or less valid in writing than textual feeling, though).

Here are a few last sentences of the Jukebox track up right now (for Alien Beat Club

[koganbot]

Thank you. This puts into words my whole impatience with this subject - well, not with the subject, whatever it is, but with how it tends to go nowhere.

[koganbot]

Also, the Martin I refer to (Skidmore) is different from the Martin you refer to (Kavka).