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[Anonymous No.11005681]

>enjoy book
>notice it has low score on goodreads
>stop enjoying book

[Anonymous No.11005696]

>actually read the reviews
>it's mostly teenagers and soccer moms complaining about the prose being hard to read and the characters being "unlikable"
>go back to enjoying book again

[Anonymous No.11005700]

>>11005681
>be dumb fucking frogposter
>post frog while destroying threads with impunity

[Anonymous No.11005701]

>>11005681
>Taking goodreads ratings seriously when the highest rated book is Harry Potter
Shiggy

[Anonymous No.11006708]

>enjoy book
>notice it has high score on goodreads
>stop enjoying book

[Anonymous No.11006713]

>>11006708
this

[Anonymous No.11006740]

>when you're reading something so obscure there's no mention of it online at all

occurred more than once

[Anonymous No.11006744]

>>11005681
>Goodreads
Lul wut?

[Anonymous No.11006775]

>>11005696
>read the reviews
>they hate it because of muh racism/sexism when it was written pre-1700
Great feeling desu

[Anonymous No.11006981]

>>11005700
>post the most unfunny anime reaction image possible with le cute rude anime grill
>complains about frogs

[Anonymous No.11007003]

>>11005681
>Goodreads
Here's a Hamlet review
>You know what I wish? I wish the whiny-ass characters in Hamlet would shut up, for once.

>“Just shut up!” I wanted to yell by the end. “Shut the hell up! Stop talking! I’m sick of it!”

>And I am. I’m sick of it. Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language is irrelevant, as is the obsession of teaching and acting his plays centuries after his death. I’m reviewing Hamlet based on the work itself. And the work is schlock. Utter schlock.

>[Makes a pass through the arras.]

>Pol.

>[Behind.] O, I am slain!

>[Falls and dies.]

>…… ……

>….

>Are you kidding me? That’s a death scene? O, I am slain? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

>Oh, and fancy this: y’know that whole To be or not to be thing? That famous line embedded in our culture, the harrowing question of whether it’s better to kill yourself or keep on living? Hamlet walks into a room, and randomly says it. I kid you not. There’s no set-up to the line, no logical reason Hamlet would even say it, he just does.

[Anonymous No.11007026]

>>11007003
Shit, he's right.

[Anonymous No.11007037]

>>11007026
Btw this guy rated Watchmen 4/5 and Welcome to the NHK 5/5 stars while Hamlet was 1/5.

[Anonymous No.11008031]

>>11005681
>Using goodreads.

[Anonymous No.11008048]

>>11005700
>complaining about a meme
>using a worst meme

go back to >>/a/

[Anonymous No.11008059]

>>11007037

[Anonymous No.11008420]

>>11007037
Who is he?

[Anonymous No.11008423]

>>11005681
goodreads is nothing but middle class western women and arabs, the ratings are completely irrelevant

[Anonymous No.11008429]

>>11005696
>the characters being "unlikable"
Never understood this complain.

[sin No.11008593]

>>11005681
You'd rather sink yourself down to the intellectual level of 11th grade AP students and boxed-wine-drinking soccer moms than Form and defend your own opinions? You are of weak composition, my friend.

[Anonymous No.11008640]

>enjoy book
>women overwhelmingly score it highly on goodreads
>stop enjoying book

[Anonymous No.11008681]

goodreads is the literature equivalent of imdb (or MAL). Most of the people there are uneducated plebs who expect everything to fit perfectly into their limited standards of how things ought to be, and how they ought to be expressed. Mind not their opinions.