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[Zenith77]

And then you went on to rant how it's not justifiable to vote 1 unless to bomb the story.

Yes, I know what I said.

I said 'there is no justification for a 1-vote on any story that tracks an overwhelmingly positive response', and I stand by that. That's a comment on it's justification (or lack thereof), not its validity.

And I also said 'But neither can you sweep every vote that doesn't fit some model, and I get that too', so yeah, I know the votes are valid.

It's an emotive subject and I get that, but don't judge me on what you think I've said when I've actually accepted the opposite.

 

[KeithD]

I agree, but there would appear to be some really dedicated folk out there. We even have a few here, who say they must always finish a book once they have started reading it, even if they're not liking it, which just sounds dumb to me. Why would you continue doing something you're not enjoying? But people do.

Yep, I always finish reading a book I've started. I'd like to say that, writing myself, I want to give the author every chance to make it good with me--or I could say I know the author of the book and they just might want to ask me about something in the book, but the primary reason is that it's sort of a running contest with my wife on who can turn in the longest reading list for the year and we aren't allowed to put a book on the list unless we read it to the end.

 

[Zenith77]

...but the primary reason is that it's sort of a running contest with my wife on who can turn in the longest reading list for the year and we aren't allowed to put a book on the list unless we read it to the end.

I love that. Do you have similar tastes? My partner's reading list only overlaps with mine about 10% of the time!

 

[KeithD]

I love that. Do you have similar tastes? My partner's reading list only overlaps with mine about 10% of the time!

No, although there's an overlap of tastes. She reads Lillian Jackson Braun and Mary Daheim, who I simply cannot abide, and I read too much international espionage for her tastes. I've stopped reading Rita Mae Brown's insipid animal mysteries, but I have to have my wife tell me about them, because we know Rita Mae and she just might ask me about one of her talking cat/dog books.

 

[Duleigh]

I got 2 swept tonight