they're immune to your consultations

[freckles_and_doubt]

So, you lot are odd. More specifically, I lament my complete and utter inability to map your responses, i.e. to predict which of my posts will garner millyuns of comments, and which will languish with no more adornment than a grammar nit-pick and an unrelated link. On the whole I'm in this blogging lark for the dialogue and wish to provoke same, tending to feel confused and unfulfilled if I don't succeed. This is provoking introspection. (Possibly exacerbated by an uneasy night after an emergency visit to my dad, who seems to have picked up a 'flu bug which is not interacting at all well with his motor neurone symptoms).

I am interested to notice that, while posts tagged, for example, "narcissism" on the whole attract a reasonable number of comments despite my expectation exactly to the contrary, posts in which I offer a detailed review of a film or book generally don't pick up on the comment action. In fact, most of them are not commented on at all. I am fascinated by this, and somewhat at a loss to account for it. Inevitably, pollage results.

[Poll #1442936]
Or, as always, leave some other pithy rejoinder in the comments. (See what I did there? self-conscious self-fulfilling recursive reference ftw!)

Comments

Re: Agree

[grumpyolddog.livejournal.com]

I like reviews, because 1) they can useful and 2) if I disagree, it's useful to analyse what I disagree about. Most books/films/music can be re-examined without prejudice and it's quite possible to notice something somebody else has pointed out and actually begin to appreciate the stuff in question.

Re: Agree

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! For me reviews interact with a film or book to add a whole new level of pleasure and discovery. And disagreement can be intensely stimulating.