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Excellent!
This brings up another question, though. Do your reviews contemplate that the books should be awesome as award winners? Or would they be same if you just randomly picked them up off the shelf?
In other words, does 2 stars mean "not a great book" or "not a great Hugo winner, which still might be well above average in the general scheme of things."
Hope you have a great New Year's! We have almost as much snow here as you have above your Antarctican lair.
That is an excellent question. I try to review each book as if I had just randomly picked it up off the shelf. I do not take their award-winning status into account.
That said, I should admit that whenever a back-cover reviewer compares a book to The Lord of the Rings, I have to resist an urge to preemptively downgrade that book. That is a comparison that should not be made lightly.
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