My personal favorite book is The Alienistby Caleb Carr. The Alienist is a book of a serial killer in New York in 1896. Since at this time serial killers where new the story follows the detectives and psychiatrist that are trying to capture this serial killer. There are many mixed reviews about this book some either like it or dont. I believe that a "literary criticism" should not be the reviewers personal views about the book. I think it should rather inform the future reader of the novel or viewer of the movie what its briefly about. We all have a diffrent taste for novels and movies. A book I may love other may hate and vice versa. Who am I (or anyone) to sit here and tell you this book sucked or this book was amazing. Someone can write a review saying how much they loved a novel or movie because it appealed to them and they persoanlly liked it. Meanwhile i can go and watch the same movie or read the same book and hate it because i ahve a diffrent taste in what i like. For example:
"So I was recently reading Edmund Wilson's memoir, The Twenties, when I noticed something curious. Wilson's a competent enough writer and was a minor celebrity in his own right--he even placed a book on the Modern Library Top 100 Nonfiction Books of the 20th Century--but I found myself only really paying attention when he's talking about the other personalities of the day : F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, etc. They somehow seemed to be more compelling figures, and the rest of the book, which Wilson has to carry by the force of his own personality, seemed flat and less interesting. Unfortunately, the same phenomenon plagues Caleb Carr's novel, The Alienist. " (Brothersjudd.com 2009)
I can read this review and thikn to myself ok this book is going to be boring why bother reading it. But after reading the book i can sit here and tell you that the book was so far from flat and not intersesting.
In conclusion i think literary criticism should stick to the facts. Telling what the movie or novel is about. Not about what you personally taught about it. That way the only review that matters is your persoanl taughts about it.
Bibliography
BrothersJudd.com
1998-2009, The Alienst Review, Brothersjudd.com
http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/626
