Book reviews are gaslighting us

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With professional book reviewing nearly dead, we examine how the industry itself is partly to blame. Book reviews are more cheerleading than commentary. Let's learn why this happened and, hopefully, have a little bit of fun along the way. I write on Substack: https://substack.com/@belowthefray My Substack Post on this topic some excellent responses including by Lincoln Michel https://substack.com/@thelincoln/p-196004996 And Sean deLone dissects what makes for a good or bad book review: https://substack.com/@dearheadofmine/p-197178052 —VIDEO— Pete Holmes' show, Ex-Men Gambit Outtakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-f2Sf3WjjE The opening movie is Little Women (2019) "Five bags of popcorn" clips is from On Cinema At the Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHLfmoLchI&list=PLQl8z