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Assessments of what gets a sci-fi or a fantasy book classed as "great" vary widely, it seems. I find recommendations by people I don't know well, for those genres especially, to be entirely useless. May as well throw a dart.

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But they didn’t just make a recommendation. They listed specific things about the book, and the writing style, as a reason for their recommendation. If you know yourself, can you not look at those points and weigh them against what you personally tend to like or dislike? Is there really nothing to be learned or nothing possibly useful?