In late-July (the 22nd and 29th), Peter Kettle published on this site a two-part article on contrasting styles of book reviewing, with attention to how they handled factual and other sorts or errors, which culminated in a classification of the different styles that readers could choose between.
Here the classification of styles is reproduced, so that more readers can express their personal preference for one or more of them – now that most people’s summer holidays are drawing to a close.
We suspect that most of you who use this site, in one way or another. will have a liking for a certain style, or styles. We now invite – and encourage – you to express your particular preference.
The portrait is of Rowland Bowen the notoriously acerbic book reviewer of the 1960s.