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Should authors Rushdie to judgment as book reviewers?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageSalman Rushdie claims not to have realised his GoodReads ratings were public. EPA/Helmut Fohringer

Poor Salman Rushdie. On the global books site GoodReads, he recently gave public 1-, 2- and 3-star ratings to books by well-known and esteemed writers such as Kingsley Amis, the late father of his friend Martin Amis, and Hermione Lee.

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