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Aug 13 07 5:49 PM

When I have to give an opinion on a story, I take my pride to use it as a reader first. Because books are made for readers and not for critics (well, most of them anyway). I want to finish the story and have my own, deepest feelings about it, and continue the story in my mind, what if? Dream about it, think about it, contemplate it.

And after that get answers for questions that concern the whole story, as: was the whole of the book OK, did the end satisfy, wasn't the beginning too slow, too fast?

Only when I don't like the story I don't read it to the end. The I try to find out why I didn't like it.

After finishing te story and sorting out my own opinion, I can look at it and give it a more detailed review, which might involve reading the whole thing again, with different specs on. I think it is better to give critique when you know the whole story and the role parts of it have when it comes to the whole of the storyline. I have seen critiques that wanted to change the whole of the stroy because they never finished it and never knew the sublime plot.

I still enjoy reading.