From: Olgy Gary <olgy_at_childrencomefirst.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:20:43 -0500

One of my biggest pet peeves are reviewers who think they must point out some negative, some failing in the book, lest their peers think them completely devoid of critical faculties. The truth, however, is that when you only have so many words and you throw something critical in, just for the sake of being critical, then it throws the balance of the review off. You may have only found 5% of the book to be unsatisfactory, for example, but 30% of your review addresses those points. The same thing happens when you write

This is such a good point you're making here, Jonathan. When we review titles to the CCF site, we instinctively I avoid pointing out some negative just for the sake of pointint it out. Your explanation, and the way you clearly describe it by using the percentages, makes real good sense to me.

Olgy
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