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ITT: Anonymously talk shit or compliment your /lit/ friends you have on Goodreads

>> No.11930044

>>11930037
There's this fucking guy that always writes really long-winded reviews that are laden with irony and a general arrogant vibe of "Yes, I am an AVID reader."

Your reviews are shit, BTW.

>> No.11930258

You guys hardly even read

>> No.11930263 [SPOILER] 
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11930263

>that guy that reads copious amounts of capeshit

>> No.11930306

I just use it to catalogue books I've read and as a handy tool to mark books that might interest me.

People really use it like a social media site?

>> No.11930361
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There's this guy Krzysiek a pole on GRs the Kurwa-igger shelves so many fucking obscure books about eastern europe like goddamn....nigga what treasure trove did you stumble upon? some Cold War era US Govt. think tank's Library.

>> No.11930368

>>11930361
link, this guy sounds based

>> No.11930381

>>11930368
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/35849559-krzysiek

>> No.11930409

>>11930306

>People really use it like a social media site?

Only people who see book reading as an extension of their identity.

>> No.11932322

I hate everyone who marks lots of books "to read" and updates their progress on whatever they're reading.

>> No.11932332

>>11930037
I hate it when the most liked "review" is some retarded ramblings about how the book is bad because he didn't like and he didn't like it beacause it was bad.

>> No.11932338

>>11930037
>/lit/ friends you have on Goodreads
...

>> No.11932556

>>11932338
post your account

>> No.11932800

>I give this book 1 star because it makes me sad
>1 star this was soooo hard I only joined because teacher was cute

the reviews by women on this site really make me think

>> No.11932808
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> that guy who has over 1000 books in his want to read list that he will never actually read

>> No.11932818

For what possible reason could there be to justify allowing .gif files in reviews?

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>>11932800
One review for Paradise Lost. It's cringy, but we can at least laud that it wasn't just UGH I JUST CANT. 10 THINGS THAT SHOULD JUST STOP.

>> No.11932839

>>11932831
Dante is a fag anyway

>> No.11932847

>>11932839
Wait shit wrong Christian fanfic

>> No.11932858

>>11932839
Dante didn't write Paradise Lost, you retard.

>> No.11932873

>>11932858
That’s why I replied >>11932847 .

>> No.11932886
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11932886

>write review
>no one likes or comments on it
>quietly delete review
I wish there was more discussion on it. I actually wanna talk, but no one ever comments and if I do they either don't respond or the conversation is shit

>> No.11932933

>>11930306
>People really use it like a social media site?
This. The Goodreads """community"""" is beyond redemption.

>tfw I try to look up books shelved as "Realism" on goodreads for more books to read, and The Fault in Our Stars and Harry fucking Potter are in the top 10.
Most of the other books, good or not, don't count as "realism" either.

>>11932322
What's wrong with marking lots of books "to read"? There's a lot of shit I want to check out someday in the future, but doesn't interest me in the moment, and it's a handy list I can come back to at any time.

I often go back to my "to-read" list for ideas, and find something in particular leaps out at me that I would have otherwise forgotten about.

>> No.11932950

I hate everyone that gives books low ratings because they didn't like or approve of the main character

>> No.11933007

I don't like how Goodreads intentionally props up shitty female writers just because they're female. The "explore" and "blog" section is completely unusable.

>> No.11933017

>>11932933
>What's wrong with marking lots of books "to read"?

It fills up my update feed with shit you're not even reading. There's nothing wrong with a list of books you want to read by do it offline in a text file or something.

>> No.11933030

>>11933017
>using goodreads for social media
Well, there's your problem

dw I have no friends

>> No.11933137

I hate that you can't actually browse for shit on goodreads because the community is really faggoty so all the books that pop up if you want non-fiction or whatever is just feminist book of the week or in fiction harry potter. I remember looking through a list that was called "cult classics" and it had things like
>1984
>The catcher in the rye
>animal farm
>the great gatsby
>the hobbit
>dracula

the entire list was like that it's ridiculous. It would have been really nice to have been able to just casually browse around and pick up some good recs but the community will never let that happen.

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11933610

I wonder if anyone has ever gotten laid using Quora?

>> No.11933625

errr, I meant Goodreads.

The only think you could successfully fuck on Quora are fucking Poos.

>> No.11933648

>>11930263

>tfw someone feels strongly enough about me to insult me in a 4chan thread

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/25308096-jackinator

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>>11933648
So this is a book that exists. And you gave it 5 stars.

>> No.11933881

>that zero-T fartbag who leaves thousand-word essays and 1 star ratings on stuff like The Prince for demeaning women

>> No.11934005

>>11930306
>this
there are enough social media sites and I don't need one to pseudpost about how good my tastes in books are.

>> No.11934737

found 2 cool guys from my country in here, exchanged some messages over couple months. Not very often someone asks my thoughts about certain book but thats about it. All my "friends" were through "Goodread threads" here on /lit/ but I really don't give a shit for the social aspect of it, use it just as means to organize what I have read and want to read.

>> No.11934763

Almost as bad as last.fm. Just keep your own list of books you've read in a text file or a simple SQLite database.

>> No.11935718

>>11932886
link, i'll comment

>> No.11935819

>>11933625
I never did but I fantasize about a chick that reads pop nonfiction like Homo Sapiens. If I had a spine and asked her out I'd have a chance because we're at about the same attractiveness level.

>> No.11935854

>>11930044
Example?

>> No.11936097

>>11933761
Tbh it's actually a decent serious manga.

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>>11930409
I used it for books at first, but now I have 4chan friends

>> No.11936331

>>11933137
The /lit/ community is fine to great, as many of them are from much earlier in the decade and have grown up but kept reading. There is very little entry level /lit/ anymore

>> No.11936355

>>11933761
if you read it youd have given it 5 stars too

>> No.11936364

>>11934763
Because everyone knows how to build databases n shiet you fucking greek (yes, with a hard R)

>> No.11936387

>>11936331
link please?

>> No.11936408

>>11936387
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/67886-lit

but really its the people that have been making goodsread profile shares since 2012

>> No.11936450

I just use goodreads to catalogue the books I physically own and have on my shelf. It makes it easier to pick out new books when I’m shopping around at used bookstores and thrift shops.
I don’t want to add people from /lit/ because I only own ~120-some books, and so my goodreads looks like I’ve read far fewer books than I actually have.

>> No.11937149

>>11935854
^
This, we need to know.

>> No.11937192

>>11933137
This tells me more about you than about goodreads itself. My rec pages are full of truly specific books about autistic minutiae in my interests. If this is the shit you're getting maybe it's time to move on and try some harder shit.

>> No.11937523

>Write reviews SPECIFICALLY to post on goodreads
>Do so in my native language, of which the only speakers on my goodreads are people I already talk to about books elsewhere
>Never translate or post them
>Still complain about people who don't post them on /lit/

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>>11933137

>>11937192 This. The Goodreads algorithm is smart enough to see what you read and ignore other editions of stuff you have read. You are just an entry level pleb who reads culture ware garbage

>> No.11937671

>>11933761
>manga

>> No.11937679

>>11933137
>why does this site always recommend me garbage pseud shit based on books ive previously written? durr.

>> No.11937690

>>11937679
>implying that poster is George Orwell, JD Salinger, F Scott Fitzgerald, JRR Tolkien, and Bram Stoker and that they are all somehow the same person and that’s who is replying

You do know Bram Stoker is a 19th century writer right?

>> No.11937744

Recc me some short shit, I had a little bump in the road and need those 200 pages bad boys to pad out my reading challenge.
I'm even considering adding the comics I read during said bump so I might at least get on track again
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3072559-bernardo-mozelli

>> No.11937756

>>11937744
You'll find what you're looking for at r/books.

>> No.11937759

>>11937690
Your mom is a 19th century writer and let's just say she got a lot of press.

>> No.11937761

>>11937756
I probably will, I'm reading through Shadowrun pap for the same reasons and I bet Reddit loves those books.

>> No.11937780

>>11937744
Story of the Eye, Hunger.

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>>11933137

>> No.11937837

>>11937759
That would make me at least 90 years old

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>>11934737
this
my goodreads 20some thing friendlist consists completely of /lit/izens i added 2 years ago or something. never really communicated with them besides reading their reviews.

I got really good recommendations from them and find myself in the company of gentlemen and women of a finer taste than i would find in my real life.


thank you guys ;_;

>> No.11938503

>>11938477
Hello, reddit.

>> No.11938562

>>11937192
>>11937660
>>11937679
you people are fucking stupid just looking to try and feel superior to others. A list is user curated.

>> No.11938607

>>11932886
Add more people. People with 1k+ friends get dozens of comments and likes on almost every single review, people with fewer friends rarely get even a single comment.

>>11932800
I've even seen a /lit/ guy rate a book 1 star because he thought that what the author "did" to the protagonist was cruel (book was A little life).

>>11932933
>The Goodreads """community"""" is beyond redemption.
In my experience, there's more than one "Goodreads community". The people who write reviews for books like "The Sublime Object of Ideology" don't interact with the people who write reviews for books like "The Fault in our Stars" at all.

>>11933761
What's wrong with it? Are you assuming that it's bad just because it's a manga or has "lesbian" in the title?

>>11937660
That function really is a hit or miss.

>> No.11939023

>>11938477
wh...whats your g-goodreads bro?

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>>11930037
I just made an account and threw in a few books that were within eyeshot and/or came to mind: https://www.goodreads.com/Walden1000

Add me if I look interesting.

>> No.11939997

bump

>> No.11940003

can you retarda really not keep track of the books youve read without this site

>> No.11940125

>>11936097
>serious manga
oxymoron