A critic’s job is not to reflect the public opinion, but to inform it.
Art may be judged by how well it achieves what it sets out to do.
Ratings should be meaningful and distinct. The difference between each rank of the rating system should be obvious to the reviewer and the reader.
He was in an old battle jacket that had BOKWINR written in neon tubing across its back.
For those of us who have been hating Ready Player One before it was cool, the backlash has been weird. Sure, the book is full of sexism, racism, pointless nostalgia, and lists of things. All valid reasons to hate it! But did anyone dumping on the book, or even its fans, actually look at the words on the page? That was my biggest problem with Ready Player One.
The writing was excruciating.
