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5-point scale, 0-1 for each category, summed and rounded to nearest star

1. Readability, how well was it written?
2. Story, was it interesting?
3. Characters, were they memorable or worth caring about?
4. Pacing, were there too many, or too little, words/pages?
5. Aftertaste, how well did the book resonate with me? Did it challenge my perspective, or leave me with a new idea to chew on?

Then he sat with his hands cupped in his lap and he seemed much satisfied with the world, as if his counsel had been sought at its creation.

Glanton ordered a goat killed and this was done in the corral while the horses shied and trembled, and in the flaring light of the fires the men squatted and roasted the meat and ate it with knives and wiped their fingers in their hair and turned in to sleep upon the beaten clay.

They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the Earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.