A Look Back was Re: 'Clue to his vulnerability' (Coming to a conclusion )

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Parker Brown Nesbit" <pbnesbit at m...> wrote:
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>  I'm hearing a *lot* of dissatisfation 
> from certain quarters (I won't name names, but you know who you are ;) ).   
> I'm wondering then, why read the books at all, if you don't like them?
>

Lyn here:
I don't think we would find much in the way of music/film/literary criticism and reviews if 
folks stopped listening/watching/reading the moment they found something dissatisfying, 
or inconsistent, or poorly done.  

As for reading the books, how does one ever chose when to stop reading a book, or the 
next book in a series? There will be a lot of answers, representing individidual sensibilities, 
including that some might well choose to read them precisely so they could knowledgably 
critique them.  

Do you really think that expressing dissatisfaction with some, maybe even many, aspects 
of an author's work means one doesn't like "the books at all"? Is it required to see the 
works exactly as the author envisions them (or in alignment with the majority of fans) in 
order to appreciate the story within. And might you not entertain the idea that one might 
like some books in a series, or some characters, or some literary contrivances, or some 
subplots, or some phrasing but find fault with others.