ForReal, critics give opinion. Fact checkers check facts.
"If you do not want to read the book, yet rely on critics to determine what you should read or not,
that is up to you. I found the book interesting. You can list my opinion with the others you noted. LOL!!"
You will keep conflating opinion with fact, and ignoring the fact they are different forever. Enough going in circles, i'm finished here.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”