There was a reviewer or commenter who said “I always keep track of how many mistakes the protagonist makes and after three, I stop reading the story and never look back”.
I think about that person pretty frequently. We read for our own enjoyment, and therefore there’s no wrong way to read a book so long as you’re enjoying yourself, but … maybe I don’t actually believe that. Maybe there are wrong ways to read a book, and this guy found one.
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I dont wanna hijack this post, but just this week I had to sit there and hear that a book by a black author was racist because it didn’t explicitly state how racism was affecting the lives of the black main characters. According to the person doing this critique, it was racist specifically because the author was black woman, and he, a white man, was expecting to be educated on the matter by her. She had an obligation to talk about it, as someone who’s an activist on black rights, but she failed to do so in a way that satisfied him.
