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Three Golden Rules For Book Reviewing

Posted at 6:43PM Thursday 21 Jul 2011

Every book review, should follow three rules:

1. The review must tell what the book is about.

2. The review must tell what the book's author says about that thing the book is about.

3. The review must tell what the reviewer thinks about what the book's author says about that thing the book is about.

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