Talk About It! discussion

Just in connection to the idea of favourite reviews I know some of you guys that I follow write awesome reviews and I want to know your favourites you wrote and why. My favourites I wrote are about six but compared to my Dracula review they never got quite as many 'likes'.

1. The Name of the Rose: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Probably my best academic style of review I've done and it really captures (in my eyes) what I liked about the novel.

2. The Master and Margarita: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Similar to the above, a really nice concise academic review that expresses what I felt.

3. A Memory of Light: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Best expresses my views on an entire series of books I like!

4. The Name of the Wind: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
A lighthearted look at fantasy in general.

5. Saturday: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Really captured the style of the book in a way that is different to the usual review and captures what I thought about the book.

6. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
One of the few negative reviews I have written - I had fun poking fun at the ways people can look presumptuously at acclaimed books.

Now I want to read yours!!!

Oh, boy...

I'm gonna have to swap out "favorite" for "reviews-I'm-not-ashamed-of." Hehe.

1. Um, my The Hunger Games review is kinda rant-y and long-winded, saying things that could be delivered in about half its length, but it's not bad.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I'd say it fleshes out my opinions fairly well, even if it uses more words than necessary to do so, and it provides an opinion a bit more interesting than most of the Katniss-strong-female-character bullshit. Some bits mock Collins' writing pretty horribly.

2. My review of Night:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A little cheesy, but honest, and lays out what I liked about the book without being overly awkward. I hope.

3. My review of Shadow and Bone:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I think I managed to address some of the common complaints about the book nicely enough, as well as acknowledging it flaws, then laying out what I liked about it.

btw, all of those are very nice reviews Jonathan!

I always like your reviews though Jocelyn, I really look forward to reading your opinions on the books you read. Every time you go and delete a review I go: oh, but that was such a good review!

Thanks Jonathan, same to you too.

Haha, that's good to know. But I think: "whew! That trash is forever flushed out of GR!" Hopefully you're more satisfied with the replacements than with the old ones. :P

So long as there are replacements I am satisfied. I just can never bring myself to delete those old reviews I write and instead edit them into some form of coherence.