![]() To a far greater extent we can trust our fellow readers here. ![]() So can we trust professional critics now any more than we can trust marketing departments to give us an honest assessment of the worth of a book? The answer, of course, is no. I’m presently reading a novel which according to The New York Times Book Review and The Boston Globe is the work of a rare genius the truth though is, as any common reader endowed with a functioning critical faculty would no doubt agree, that it’s simply a very ordinary novel with no distinguishing virtue. In the final essay she has a dig at (her) contemporary professional critics. It’s appropriate that my 100th GR review should be a book that attempts to shift literary criticism from the hallowed office into the sitting room as all of us here on Goodreads are “the common reader”, a voice that in Woolf’s day barely existed. ![]()
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