Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Yes.

And this is a really marvelous essay on the experience of an individual reading a particular book powerful to the writer.

I think that the rather toxic human habit of infesting oneself with an unconscious paradigm in which one's Judge Object, and every other object or person is Petitioner Subject, has a lot to do with the review structures you note.

And, tangentially, isn't it odd how very different those three novels are from each other?