um, another of those quiz thingies

gacked from avanta7

Your Power Color is Green You feel most at home in a world of ideas. You're curious and logical - and enjoy a good intellectual challenge. You're super cool, calm, and collected. Very little tries your patience. Your only fear? People not realizing how smart and able you are! What's Your Power Color? Take This Quiz :-)

today's ramble

I've had this running ramble in my head for a couple of days, about why book reviews aren't terribly useful, having to do with the fact that no two people read any given book for exactly the same reasons. Or like a book for the same reasons. Or like the same things about a book. No two people are ever reading exactly the same book, in fact, because no two people bring exactly the same neurons to the table when they open the book.

When I say I like a book, it might mean that I really like the writing style, or I like the plot twists, or I find one of the characters fascinating, or all of the above. Or something different. Just saying I liked the book doesn't tell you any of that. And if what you look for in a book is something else, then the fact that I liked it won't help you decide at all.

And there's stuff that bugs me that might not bug you, and vice versa. I get really ticked at poor editing - grammar mistakes, spelling errors, random respellings of names, stuff like that. Some people are able to overlook that; I find it difficult to get past that.

I'd better cut this, since this may be a longish ramble:
( More rambling )