Biblioracle: Why did a one-star review persuade me that I should read a book? Because of the power of polarization.
When I became aware of the recently released novel, “Big Swiss” by Jen Beagin, I went to Amazon. While I never buy books from Amazon, I often use its database of customer reviews to get a sense of the vox populi regarding a particular book.
I’ve been long interested in the truly polarizing nature of what some people find funny that others, well … don’t. The Academy Award-nominated film,was described to me by someone as a “comedy,” and while there are a handful of rueful chuckles to be had, that movie is not a comedy. Some of you are thinking that this guy has a real taste for low comedy, and what can I say but guilty as charged — that is if you believe there is an important distinction to be made between high and low comedy. What I know is what makes me laugh, my personal proof in the pudding of something that claims to be comic.
In books, the comic is trickier, partly because it is relatively rare for an author to lean in fully to the comic, since comedy is often treated like a lower order, despite it being significantly tougher to pull off than tragedy.
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