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  • From: Nancy Stedman <stedman@rcn.com>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [gwl-g] discouraged by new book
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:45:02 -0500

Gee, this is kind of depressing to me.
Isn't the point of a review to steer people to good books and keep them away from those that waste their money? Or to at least write enough about a book so a potential reader can tell if it is of interest to him or her? If a reader has to buy a book before he/she realizes they hate it, what service is a magazine performing? I imagine that garden magazines (unlike newspapers and most magazines) won't publish somewhat negative reviews because they want to make a deal to sell the books (as American Horticulture often does). Not my idea of journalism...
Nancy Stedman, NYC

At 10:18 AM 1/15/2005 -0500, you wrote:
I was comparing this in my head to restaurant reviews, where the best
reviewers do point out the negatives and the restaurants pray for them to
visit anyway (if you believe what you see in the movies <g>).

Also, since most honest reviews would not be good or bad, but would point
out strengths and weaknesses as seen by the reviewer, avoiding a review if
there was anything bad in it would mean that the good is never talked about
either. This does not seem like a good thing to me.

Esther Czekalski



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