Do you rate/review books you didn't finish?

PashaRu · Post by **PashaRu** » 26 May 2015, 22:22

This is actually a personality profile question, and a super secret government agency is monitoring everyone's answers, with plans to turn the people who answer "correctly" into a hybrid race of robot spider people. This is because another super secret government agency has uncovered the diabolical plans of insectoid aliens to invade earth and steal all the baby carriage wheels in the world.

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

They must be stopped!

gali · Post by **gali** » 26 May 2015, 22:26

If the book is for formal review purposes, I always read it to the end before reviewing it. If I quit the book, I don't write a review and pass it on for others to review.

For informal reviews I think it is fine to give a brief review as long as one mentions he didn't finish the book.

-- May 27th, 2015, 6:28 am --

PashaRu wrote:This is actually a personality profile question, and a super secret government agency is monitoring everyone's answers, with plans to turn the people who answer "correctly" into a hybrid race of robot spider people. This is because another super secret government agency has uncovered the diabolical plans of insectoid aliens to invade earth and steal all the baby carriage wheels in the world.

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

They must be stopped!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 26 May 2015, 22:29

PashaRu wrote:This is actually a personality profile question, and a super secret government agency is monitoring everyone's answers, with plans to turn the people who answer "correctly" into a hybrid race of robot spider people. This is because another super secret government agency has uncovered the diabolical plans of insectoid aliens to invade earth and steal all the baby carriage wheels in the world.

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.

They must be stopped!

OMG, this is what I've been afraid of, and I'm one of the only ones saying that I WILL review a book without finishing it!! The horror! The horror!

PashaRu · Post by **PashaRu** » 26 May 2015, 22:35

zeldas_lullaby wrote:OMG, this is what I've been afraid of, and I'm one of the only ones saying that I WILL review a book without finishing it!! The horror! The horror!

Ah, but you don't know which is the "correct" answer!!! There's the rub!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 26 May 2015, 22:53

HA HA... Oh. Gasp!

Good point. I have nothing to worry about then.

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 26 May 2015, 23:00

Nope...they're just deciding which sector to put you in.
We're all up the river

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 26 May 2015, 23:03

Ooooh. Then I'll probably be the leader of all of you.

They'd probably examine us and find us human, until they get to PashaRu, and they'll be like, "Welcome home Nixtinxa." And then we'll all be in trouble.

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 26 May 2015, 23:27

She's on to you, Pasha! Run!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 26 May 2015, 23:55

Yes, see, here we've been taken in to be examined... Does anyone notice what's wrong with us?

Ventis · Post by **Ventis** » 27 May 2015, 16:02

Yes, I do that. I find more shocking that people really think I must read the whole book before I know it's poorly written. I don't review/rate just by the plot, but also by the characters, style, narration, atmosphere, tone, pace.These things don't improve in the last few chapters. A cardboard character won't suddenly change into a vivid, realistic one, and clumsy sentences won't become little masterpieces, a cliched plot won't be saved by an unexpected twist at the end (especially since in one-star books it's usually not unexpected but all, but just another chliche).

I don't see what's dishonest or unethical to explain this to the author and/or other readers. Painful, yes. But once I publish my novel, it's what I would expect from my reviewers, in fact. I find it more honest and helpful than comments only on the plot, or saying 'it wasn't good, but the ending saved it'.

Mlenhardt · Post by **Mlenhardt** » 27 May 2015, 16:16

Very very very rarely. Out of thousands of books, I only did not finish around 5. And that was due to extremely poor grammar or very inappropriate subject matter that was not disclosed beforehand.

PashaRu · Post by **PashaRu** » 27 May 2015, 18:52

Graverobber wrote:She's on to you, Pasha! Run!

Nixtinxa does not need to run. Nixtinxa never runs.

Post by **bookowlie** » 27 May 2015, 19:16

PashaRu wrote:
Graverobber wrote:She's on to you, Pasha! Run!
Nixtinxa does not need to run. Nixtinxa never runs.

Welcome home Nixtinxa.

You and Zeldas_Lullaby are beyond hilarious or maybe just beyond......

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 27 May 2015, 19:33

PashaRu wrote:
Graverobber wrote:She's on to you, Pasha! Run!
Nixtinxa does not need to run. Nixtinxa never runs.

Crawl?

Fly?!

TrishaAnn92 · Post by **TrishaAnn92** » 27 May 2015, 20:48

I couldn't ever do that! Then again I try to always finish a book even if I don't like it. It's not fair to the author and to other readers to rate a book and not finish reading it. At the very least I write about what bothered me in the book in regards as to why I didn't finish it. But never rate it. That would be annoying.