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>Goodreads
>"le look at all these books I read I'm so smart! XD"

ISHYGDDT

>> No.4414711

>"this book didn't pander to me"
>one star

Have user ratings ever meant anything? It's always a hyperbolic, personal excursion rather than an actual objective review.

>> No.4414719

>>4414711
>Have user ratings ever meant anything?
Of course not

Why do you think critics exist

>> No.4414725

>>4414711

Look at the top rated movies on imdb

>> No.4414731

I just tell everyone I read books, yet I don't need to read them, because that would be a huge waste of time.

Am I trolling you now? I bet there are people with this mind set.

>> No.4414734

>>4414698
The site gives me good recomendations

>> No.4414744

I use goodreads to keep track of what I want to read and to get recommendations upon ratings.

You mad ?

>> No.4414745

>>4414731
>making up fictional characters in order to feel better about his pathetic self
lmao

>> No.4414747
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>>4414744
Yes bro I am so mad you have no idea

>> No.4414749

>>4414734
>goodreads
>good recommendations
lmao

>>4414744
>actually defending and explaining his choices in a 0/10 thread
lmao

>> No.4414750

>>4414711
yes, it means how likely it's to pander to the average user of that specific community

>> No.4414758

>>4414734
>>4414749
It does. Obviously, if you read shit your recommendations will be full of shit.

>> No.4414760

In all seriousness, how do people usually find good things without relying on rating systems?

>> No.4414765

>>4414758
>rate all kafka i read with 1 star
>hey you read x, maybe you like this kafka book!

>> No.4414769

>>4414760
i ask my best friend /lit/ :^)

>> No.4414773

HOW TO KNOW YOUR A PLEB - A 2 STEP GUIDE

>do you use goodreads or any other kind of faggot reading/writing enthusiast shit to pretend you're a writer/literature buff with 89753823 other identical nobodies??
>congrats you' are a pleb

>> No.4414779

>>4414773
how to know your mad

you rage on 4chan using le greentext

>> No.4414785

>>4414779
>How to know you're from reddit

You say 'hurr hurr butmad le 4chan user' with no irony whatsoever.

>> No.4414789

>>4414779
why are you even here

>> No.4414790

>>4414785
gee man pls dont cry now

>> No.4414795

>>4414773
Why do you lose integrity if you show your interest? Isn't it only if you list books you haven't read it's a problem?
I enjoy sharing that I have read a good book in hope someone else might pick it up and we can talk about it. It makes being an amateur so much more enjoyable, when you have someone to talk to.

>> No.4414797

>>4414795
>have someone to talk to.
pleb detekted

>> No.4414803

>>4414797
I've already stated I'm an amateur I do it out of love for the medium I don't have to be the next genius.

>> No.4414804

>>4414785
>How to know you're from /b/

You accuse people of being from reddit

>> No.4414807

>>4414803
then what's the problem - the mad guy only said you're a pleb

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4414806

>>4414790
I'm not that guy you originally quoted. I don't really know why he all caps'd and used '2'. You're continuing with the UMAD rhetoric though, just so you're aware.

>> No.4414810

>>4414734

This. I only signed up because I was bored one day but then I couldn't decide what to read next to I took a chance on a recommendation and it ended up being really good; now I tend to mix and match between their recommendations and just general stuff I want to read and the site has never let me down.

That said, I've never and probably will never use the site for any kind of social stuff because any time I've made the mistake of looking at a review or something, it's been absolutely terrible.

>> No.4414811

>>4414806
>argument
there's no such thing here bb

>> No.4414812

>>4414807
How is it mad to say something is pleb shit?

>> No.4414817

>>4414812
it's how you say it

>> No.4414823

>>4414812
Anon, people have been letting reddit shitposters run wild for years. Anyone who doesn't agree with you or, god forbid, calls you a faggot is obviously a rabid caricature of hormones smashing violently on their keyboard.

>> No.4414826

>>4414823
mad patrol in the house

>> No.4414828

>>4414807
He said that it was a bad thing to list the books you have read. I want to know why apart from the "attention" aspect which I find pretty shallow.

>> No.4414831

>>4414828
he said you are a pleb if you do so

you admitted you are a pleb yourself

i dont think we have a case here anon, sorry

>> No.4414841

>>4414831
Why are you dodging, tossing meaningless labels around?

>> No.4414848

>>4414841
your arguments are too compelling

>> No.4414860

if you have a goodreads there's a 99% chance that at least one of the following is an author you list as a favorite

vonnegut
hemingway
orwell
dostoyevsky
kafka
camus
mccarthy

>> No.4414863

if you read books there's a 99% chance that at least one of the following is an author you list as a favorite

vonnegut
hemingway
orwell
dostoyevsky
kafka
camus
mccarthy

>> No.4414874

>>4414860

I am the 1%

>> No.4414878

>>4414874
post your gdr

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>>4414863

>if you have a goodreads there's a 99% chance that you enjoy at least one author from this list of authors almost universally recognized as great

>> No.4414896

>>4414860
Kafka doesn't cater to me, so I don't read him.

>> No.4414905

>>4414760
read about your favorite writers, see who inspired them, etc. its a never ending process really. feel like i always stumble upon something interesting.

>> No.4414912

>>4414863
nope

>> No.4414915

>>4414795
>Why do you lose integrity if you show your interest?

Welcome to the world of ironic detachment

>> No.4414934

Does anyone on /lit/ actually use any social reading sites?
I have a Shelfari because I wanted to have a list of what I've read, but I don't use it for sociable things.

>> No.4414938

>>4414934
yes, goodreads

>> No.4414953

>>4414938
Ah, so I guess I picked the wrong site, then.
>>4414896
As much as I like Kafka his stories mostly all cover the same ground. Alienation? Self-loathing? Problems with your father? Dehumanization in modern society? You don't say!

>> No.4414960

>>4414953
>You don't say!
hiya reddit

>> No.4414990

>>4414934
Goodreads, /lit/ used to have a goodreads group -a couple of them actually- and the discussions were at least interesting.

>> No.4415148

Noone sharing their account?

>> No.4415249

>>4414990
I'm transferring my books there now.
These numerical ratings that the site gave the books I read are painful.
The trashy light novels I read have higher ratings than the high concept literature.

>> No.4415255

>>4415249
shit man there re people who dont agree with the critics and canon? horrible

>> No.4415263

>>4415255
The ratings are so useless they shouldn't be prominently featured there.

>> No.4415278

>>4414711
>objective review

>> No.4415283

most people on good reads tend to be housewives and boring women that read nothing but romance novels.

>> No.4415290

i wish RYM had a books section

>> No.4415300

>>4414765
>The Trial
>1 Star

>> No.4415307

>>4415300

2xXsuRrEalISM4U

its about SPOOKY EvIl BEAUROCRACY ~ that is out there to GET YA. you ~ DIE ~ and at teh end you still dont know WHY ???? LIFE is a coNSTAt TRIAL your CHOISE to fight OR run!~ don'T believe tjheir LIES! KafKA 2 DEEP man ~~

>> No.4417634

>>4415283
This. Too many women on this site.

>> No.4417638

>>4417634
it'd be worse if it were majority men

>> No.4417755

>>4417638

> le hairy armpit of female liberation

>> No.4417785

Guys, i admit i've been dabbling on hugo/nebula/locus short story winners and runner-ups for the previous years, is that wrong?
Also there is a 45% chance of any given short story of the last 10 years having the same plot (aka humanity in space being transformed and then confronted with "the old earth's humanity")

>> No.4417796

Hello /lit/, for a long time I've been searchin Rateyourmusic equivalent for books.

but Goodreads wasn't it. It seems a giant massive circlejerk to me.

Any other similar sites?

To my great sadness or joy, /lit/ is still by far the best place to talk about books if I dont count my real life circles.

>> No.4417824

>>4414895
mio negro

>> No.4417825

Just as shallow as last.fm
Ego-cherishing at it's worst

>> No.4417834
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>>4417825
I liked Last.FM a lot when it had the great layout with good amount of info, but now I just use Rateyourmusic for that and reviews.


>Shallow.
huh?

>> No.4417836

I use it more as an book-imdb than a book-facebook, I look up books that look interesting and get some facts about it if it looks promising

>> No.4417840

>>4417836
Why not use Wikipedia for that?

>> No.4417842

>>4417840
not complete

>> No.4417845

>>4417834
The fact that the majority uses it to show off how much music they've listened and how many artists they are aware of.
>people who press "mute" before going to sleep to gain scrobbles through the night

>> No.4417850

>>4417840
spoilers out of nowhere

>> No.4417853

>>4417845
Oh, yeah. I just keep track of my listening habbits with it through foo_audioscrobbler. I could do it with other plugins that dont require last.fm, but I sometimes lurk what people i know are listening too

>> No.4417858

>>4417825
Some people might use last.fm for that purpose but it's still a great resource. the recommendation system and radio stations are great, it's much better at what it does than goodreads

>> No.4417859

>>4417840
One too many times have I had major twists and plot points spoiled for me in literally the very first fucking sentence of the synopsis on Wikipedia.

>> No.4417863

>>4417859
Which books? I never faced this.

>> No.4417865

>>4414731
People generally think I'm very well read, but I'm actually just a skilled sophist. The illusion of learnedness is handy because it gives you authority.

>> No.4417990

>>4417865
i'm pretty sure its not an illusion in your case

>> No.4418750

>>4414860
Not one.

>> No.4418765

>>4414860
Nah.

If you had Salinger in there though.

>> No.4419146

>>4418750
>>4418765
>being this insecure to fall for that obvious b8

>> No.4419181

>>4414719
but critics are just users that a lot of people know.
and they're very often incredibly retarded

>> No.4419207

i do do it, op

what are u gonna do about it

>> No.4419215

>>4414860

>implying its possible to have a goodreads without Kafka

>> No.4419963

>>4414711

goodreads rating is all about how much you like it, not necessarily how good you find it

>> No.4419965

>>4414734

I second this. Their recommendation engine is all right.

>> No.4420101

its the same shit as the redditards that come here and post pictures of their shitty book "hauls"

>> No.4420144

hmmm
neat

i never really knew what goodreads was until I saw this thread. Seems like a good way to keep track of my reading lists. By the way, have any of you guys ever kept like a yearly reading log since you were a kid? I used to make one every year out of composition books. Don't know why, it was just fun I guess. Am I alone?

>> No.4420198

>>4420144
We are all alone.

>> No.4420445

>>4420144
i still do that.

>> No.4420488

Goodread are great to track your readings and search what to read next.

>> No.4420492

But I don't have any Goodreads friends, don't leave any reviews and don't even use my real name.