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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MThibault" data-source="post: 608350" data-attributes="member: 7971">Nah, we still feel the pull of "If you can't say anything nice..."  Maybe moreso because the publisher was kind enough to send a copy for free.If my editor would give me the space (I write for print) to review everything that comes accross my desk, I would probably publish more bad reviews than good.  But I only have the space to publish reviews of 2 or 3 of the dozen or so works I get for each issue, so I tend towards good reviews.  Heck, why even finish reading a dreadful book if I'm not going to review it?  If I don't have to submit to the tedium, I'll usually just skim it and it aside and read/review something else.The main exception is when a book is not very good, but there is something "interestingly bad" about it.  Isn't it just as boring for the readers of the review when the entire review consists of the usual list of negatives.  But when a book fails in a new and interesting way, then I can write an interesting negative review.  Recently I reviewed a work that was trying to do two things at once.  It did both fairly well, but failed overall because the two goals were incompatible.  That is a bit more interesting to write about than inelegant mechanics or lousy verisimilitude, or other such common problems.I would love to see more "ambitious failures" in my mailbox.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Cheers</blockquote>

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