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If one is to acknowledge that it is unfair to express personal prejudice in reviewing books, then the entire reviewing process might as well be rejected as pointless: a critic's opinions are valid only when he has gained a following among readers who agree with--or, at least, respect--his point of view.
Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)
The rhyme-triggered evocation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, even about a book on the tinsel town of Hollywood, is not very rewarding, and it seems just about as pointless to be led to the General Confession in the Anglican prayer book to evaluate a biography of Himmler.
Since not everyone will read everything they order up at no charge, an enormous amount of pointless net traffic is being generated.
Could it be that the general scientific community finds such speculation ultimately pointless in the absence of real data?