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Didnt see anything in the catalog, so goodreads thread!

>Favorite reviewer?

>Annoying reviews

>Best groups

>etc etc

Get in here!

>> No.6057455

>goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1.Best_Books_Ever

>> No.6057456

a friend recently sent me a review were a white lady said The Help was more insightful about race relations than [the book reviewed, which was by a black author]
it was the most liked review of the book

>> No.6057464

>>6057455
>reading genre fiction/YA

a-at least they're reading, r-right?

>> No.6057479

>>6057456
You know, the race of the author is pretty much irrelevant.

>> No.6057483

average rating is a 2.88. that's good right guys?

>> No.6059762

Bump.

Post your pleb accounts.
>scifi and fantasy
>popular classics
>60% anglo authors

>> No.6059767

>>6057436
I fucking hate his reviews
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/84023-keely

>> No.6059769

>>6057436
Also me
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29831737-pinkyivan

>> No.6060791

>>6059767
>puts rand as "to avoid"
>Also to avoid Alain de Botton
>Rated my favourite cape-shit poorly
>Watchmen 5 star but Ellis/Morrison stuff 3/2 stars
>Shriner

Then I look at a review.
'Kill Your Boyfriend' came out a year before Columbine. The eponymous Columbine. The tragic and fearful Columbine.........................

>>6057483
I am proud of a 3.08

>> No.6060807

>>6057483
>>6060791
>rating books

I proudly avoid the rating system on there.

>> No.6060811

>>6059767
Me too, except for when he reviews books he likes.

>> No.6060817

>>6059767
How could he possibly misunderstand Zinn that badly?

>> No.6060821

>>6059767
>https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/84023-keely
>about me
>I am a critic--which is to say I am in possession of a poetic licence to kill.

this is next level cringe

>> No.6060838
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>>6060821
These photos.


I would like to complain about this man

>Theosophy, like every other religion, is complete BS.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102177727?book_show_action=true&page=1

>> No.6060859

>>6060838
>https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102177727?book_show_action=true&page=1

he actually fucking gives books stars other than 5.

do people actually rate books based on a fucking 5 star system? White Noise is 3 stars in his view. Just give everything you liked 5 stars, why the fuck would he read so many books but only enjoy them enough to give them 3 stars on a review website, you know the entire time he reads his mind is focused on how to shit-talk the book later to look smart

>> No.6060872

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/35515738?shelf=read

what I've been reading this year. just made an account, add me bookfriends

>> No.6060906

>>6060791
When I feel masochistic I read his Book of the New Sun review.
Also by reading it you can learn how not to write reviews.

>> No.6060918

>>6060859
>actually finishing a book you deem to be worthy of 1-2 stars
Why would you bother finishing a book if you think its shit? I suppose some people care more for a 'balanced' goodreads rating profile and their read books count more than the actual books.

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6060925

Someone post that 'The Stranger' review, I need a good chuckle.

>> No.6060926

>>6060918
Lots of books I rated 2 stars I don't think are shit. Plenty of them have very good ideas that just don't work at all, or fascinating characters amid a pile of other bad stuff.

1 star books are usually such trainwrecks that I'll finish them out of morbid curiosity.

But usually if I hate something 50 pages in I'll just abandon it and not put it on Goodreads at all. I didn't read it; I tried it and gave up.

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>>6060926
>1 star books are usually such trainwrecks that I'll finish them out of morbid curiosity.
/co/ has 'Storytime of Pain' where we get to gether and read something that hurts to finish.

>>6060859
>do people actually rate books based on a fucking 5 star system?

I use how much I enjoyed things in the hope of better suggestions. GR has a suggested didnotlike/ok/like/reallylike/amazing

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>>6060859
Oh, so you're one of those people who rates everything 5 stars or 1 star? Get hit by a bus, faggot. I hate that shit.

>> No.6061014

>>6060998

I don't review books I thought were bad because people want valuable insight from other people who liked the book not some contrarian hipster with scabies on his butthole who wants to look smart

>> No.6061030

>>6061014
So you're going to let people read shitty books by eliminating criticism? Gosh, anti-hipsters have become so contrarian that they're unwilling to dislike things in case it makes them look 'edgy'.

>> No.6061084

>>6061030

nah, people are just more interesting when they can focus and provide insight on what they liked about any given book rather than poorly articulate their specific criticisms

>> No.6061107

>>6060998
the stars crap is the least worthwhile part of the site. I rate stuff but I don't spend any time thinking about how much sense my ratings make. Even a decent two-sentence review is a thousand times more useful than a star rating.

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>>6061107
Suggestion from those I trust are worth more than some average rating, but they are something I eep in mind when a book catches my eye.