{"id":31865,"date":"2012-12-19T19:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/reviewing-reviews.html"},"modified":"2012-12-19T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T02:21:25","slug":"reviewing-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/reviewing-reviews.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Stross looks at reviews (books in particular, though I suspect the same follows for most other reviewable creative works), and what you can (and can't) learn from them as a creator. (h\/t +<\/span>Tim Hall<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReader reviews: we get them. And, mostly, we ignore them; because, like all other forms of fiction, 90% of book reviews are junk. And reviews by regular readers, as opposed to professional critics, ar…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Charles Stross looks at reviews (books in particular, though I suspect the same follows for most other reviewable creative works), and what you can (and can't) learn from them as a creator. (h\/t +Tim Hall) Embedded Link Understanding Reader Reviews – Charlie’s Diary Reader reviews: we get them. And, mostly, we ignore them; because, like … Continue reading “Reviewing Reviews”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28636,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/john-scalzi-on-bad-reviews-and-bullying.html","url_meta":{"origin":31865,"position":0},"title":"John Scalzi on bad reviews and bullying","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jul-12 12:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes. 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