If you ask both what defines for them a "good book," they'll more or less mention the same attributes. "It's entertaining, it has originality, touches me emotionally" etc. But someone else with different expectations might read my book and be amazed by it. If my book fails to meet the expectations of someone who a week ago has read e.g 'Twilight,' it's because that person's expectations of that book have been laid on my shoulders to carry this week. What we so often find shadowing our judgement prior to a new experience is the concept of expectations, which are of infinite nature, change drastically from person to person and are usually completely meaningless because their creation was based on a different experience in the past and not on the one you are experiencing now. Criteria are stable factors and common nature. The day you bite an apple and it tastes like an orange will be the day there will be no more criteria on how an apple should taste like. A book is not like an apple, when every time you have one there is a criterion on what it should taste like. Before come our "expectations."Įach book is a brand new experience and you cannot have criteria for a new experience, it's impossible. but what most people don't realize is that our "criteria" present themselves after you finish a book, not before. The criteria for what constitutes a good book are pretty much the same for all of us.
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