How to write a good book review on Living Social
July 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Book Review Tips
Living Social, a handy way to share your interests with the world at large and more specifically with your Facebook friends, has the ability to share your reviews.
Instructions
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The entry fieldThe first thing you will have to do, or should do, is finish reading a book. Now many reviews are done by people who have not read the work they are reviewing. While not inherently illegal, there is no ticket or fine, for doing things this way, it is not quite cricket.
So knowing that we have read the book to conclusion, you need to search Living Social for the book so that you get to its entry. In the entry field enter the name of the book. -
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows exampleThe database searched and chances are the book you have read is in the database and all you need do now is assign a rating to it and mark that you have already read it. That rating is assigned by clicking on the stars next to the picture of the book. A rating of 1/2 star to 5 stars is possible.
- Writing your book review. In order to be a good review, Living Social is looking for you to cover 150 words on the book. But that is just a verbose way of writing a review. To be a good review, you must cover a few concepts. You must also do so in such a way that you do not give away crucial secrets, or Spoilers, while doing so. (Don’t want to tell anyone that Darth Vader is Luke’s father for instance.)
1) Your initial impressions. I believe you can spend a few words and moments on your overall opinion of the book, which can be broken down into three broad criticisms. Good, bad, or indifferent. There are much better adjectives then that and here you can be verbose and erudite in how you word that basic concept, but having just finished the book, you should know whether you liked it, hated it, or it just left you… (See indifferent.)
2) Now you can discuss the guts. If a mystery, was there a body, did that body come about quickly or slowly, or was there so much character development that the body was irrelevant. Were there Red Herrings, or you knew right away who did it in the who-dun-it. If a romance, you could see that the lovers were meant to be together and the only reason they weren’t was because the writer was stoopid, not the characters. You want to discuss some of the mechanics.
3) Now the technique is important to relate. The prose was rich, long sentences taken to discuss the petals of one flower, or countless words giving imagery to the sands on the beach. Dialogue so well written that the characters must have had IQ’s of 150, or on the other hand, Dialogue so poor, the tale was peppered with morons.
4) The last thing you wish to do is leave us with a recommendation. The previous books in the series were good, if not great, but this one your money is better spent on a gallon of ice cream. At the end you will still want more, but it at least will have tasted good and you can spend all the time you save watching House instead. Or the book was a keeper and definitely will be reread again, just after the consumption of a gallon of ice cream. - The very last step is to hit save, and should you be a Facebook member, publish it to your profile.
