trouble in comment land
namely, you get an error message when you try to post a comment. I'm working on it. Thanks for the heads up, radiant Robyn.
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April 12, 2005
my version
With apologies to Auden, this book evaluation scheme works for me better than his more streamlined version.
***** well written, great characters, great plot
**** some flaws, but still all around pretty darn good
*** nothing out of the ordinary
** some redeeming features
* poorly written, cardboard characters, terrible plot
(+) I like it.
(-) I don't like it. (boring, annoying, irritating)
(~)Under other circumstances, I might come to like it.
Now, thinking about this further, I would be even more comfortable going the whole way and using the system I set up when I was trying to figure out why some novels become best sellers. You see the diagram here, with seven categories. That would mean, for example, that a given novel might be a 6(~) or a 4(+) or (less likely) a 1(+), in my evalation.
A German idiom comes to mind: warum einfach, wenn es kompliziert auch geht?