I mostly go by a) recommendations from people I trust b) reviews (that I mostly find in the dailies).
Also, if you focus on classics I think you’ll be fine. I.e. Hemingway, Kafka, Dickens et al. Classics can have their flaws too, but I think we can assume they didn’t become classics by pure chance. So IMHO it’s a reasonable filter.
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I mostly go by a) recommendations from people I trust b) reviews (that I mostly find in the dailies).
Also, if you focus on classics I think you’ll be fine. I.e. Hemingway, Kafka, Dickens et al. Classics can have their flaws too, but I think we can assume they didn’t become classics by pure chance. So IMHO it’s a reasonable filter.