Rating systems for books are ridiculous. It does not matter if the reviewer is a professional or an expert for sunday reviews of a petit bourgeois papers. It projects a one-sided notion of reading of how 'good' the book is, as a passive object awaiting judgement, if the text has failed and disappointed the reader, but failed to take into account of their own ability as reader, the chances of their own inadequacies that made them, often the consumer-readers, failed the text. [...]
Even in the worst text, an active reading beyond passive reception of plot and content to structure and form could produce an effective reading. [...]
The issue would not be if this is a good book but if one has read the worst book well. This also demands the reader to question their position when they approach the text. Stop judging if you are reading a failed writer but start thinking if you are a failed reader.
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