When judging a work, if your judgment is about "do I like it or not" there is no wrong answer, you like what you like.
If you want to talk about whether a given work is good or bad, or could be better or worse, you can only start from what the work is aiming to be.
If you want to talk about whether a given work is good or bad, or could be better or worse, you can only start from what the work is aiming to be.
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For example, why put a popsicle in the middle of this otherwise cool image?
I respect and recognize the skill/effort. I just don't like the "flavor".
Just because I don't like something, doesn't mean it's "bad". It just means that it isn't for me.
If you dislike something about, say, a widely acknowledged classic, that's fine, you dislike it, but to say, for instance, that Classic Author has written badly & not understood how to write is...
Why did Herman Melville--not just any scribbler, widely taught in school, still in print more than 100 years after he wrote--why did he include all those whaling chapters in Moby DIck?
Not because he didn't know how to write, I assure you.
No one is obliged to do that work, and by all means put the book down if you're not enjoying it.
(We’re talking about the social media site, right?)
You get Good/bad flavors of both.
But like in nature, only the memorable things survive.
depth that the playwright was unaware lurked in their own work
so I'm inclined to say yes
1) Did the reader enjoy (did this book speak to the reader).
2) Did this work accomplish its goal?