Not sure if anyone's spotted these before - or even wanted to see them... They're reviews of the Legends of Dune trilogy:-
The Butlerian Jihad
The Machine Crusade
The Battle of Corrin
The reviews are both astonishing and amusing... The reviewer actually likes the first, but is then very disappointed by the 2nd and 3rd books. But, despite slagging them off, still gives them 7/10 and 6.5/10!
Not sure if anyone has seen these before...
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Thanks! Hadn't seen those.
I don't get the ratings, either.
(Kinda wonder what the comment that he deleted said.... )
I don't get the ratings, either.
(Kinda wonder what the comment that he deleted said.... )
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I see stuff like this all the time on the internet. The net seems rampant with reviews that don't understand the simple relationship between the written review and the number scale
You would think that a review that opens with "the novel disappointed on basically every level" and closes with "It is almost sacrilegious that the final chapter of the Dune saga will be written by Herbert and Anderson." would garner something at least 4 or under on a scale of 10
You would think that a review that opens with "the novel disappointed on basically every level" and closes with "It is almost sacrilegious that the final chapter of the Dune saga will be written by Herbert and Anderson." would garner something at least 4 or under on a scale of 10
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"The books of Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert lie in a realm of uncertainty between self-conscious absurdity and genuine failure"
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I'd give Hunters a C... on a curve based on the rest of their Dune books.Phaedrus wrote:It could be on a grading system, like in schools. 7/10 is ~70%, or a C, 6.5/10 is 65%, or just barely a D.
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will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
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