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Bad reviews are always so much more fun to read than good ones.

• gumby 8y ago
  To review your comment: "The author's well meaning and accurate comment is that well-written negative reviews are typically far more fun to read than positive ones of any quality -- in the positive case you usually want to simply read the book, while the implication of the comment is that the pleasure of reading the negative ones is a delicious Schadenfreude. "Regrettably, this insight was obscured by a regrettable poor choice of terminology ("bad" and "good"). The comments, azernik, has enough HN karma to suggest that this error ought be assigned to the casual, off-the-cuff nature of internet commenting, and that this comment is not up to the usual work (i.e. comments) of the author.
  • jwilk 8y ago
    "Regrettably" and "regrettable" is a single sentence, "comments" instead of "commenter", missing "to" after "ought", lowercase "internet"; all that in a single paragraph. Error density in gumby's English is astounding.
  • azernik 8y ago
    Short trumps correct.
• EliRivers 8y ago
  Best thing about Fifty Shades of Grey; this review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215