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For me I tend to go to goodreads and read the one star reviews. While many times it’s hyperbole, they can give you a good snapshot of the negative parts to balance a meaningless 3.5 star review or whatever.
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Bilirubin posted:Goodreads is mostly fine. I have not yet had a good recommendation from its "suggested because you read X" algorithm though, and classic books tend to get lower overall ratings because of sooper smart online readers who "don't get all the hype" if you read good books the suggestion thing very occasionally throws up something cool
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May 5, 2019 22:34
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goodreads ratings are terrible unless you're looking at books which have been reviewed once in a language you don't read
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May 5, 2019 22:37
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Protip: if the book is translated and not a genre novel, it's probably decent
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May 5, 2019 22:51
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CestMoi posted:if you read good books the suggestion thing very occasionally throws up something cool sometimes if you read the cool obscure books that weird cliques of people read on there it will start giving you other good ones as well.
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If anything Goodreads review aggregates are way too high, especially for genre stuff. There's a load of very bad fantasy, sci-fi, and horror rated at 4+ stars so take most of it with a grain of salt. Insert obligatory "all fantasy, sci-fi, and horror is bad" response from whoever here
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May 6, 2019 18:39
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MockingQuantum posted:If anything Goodreads review aggregates are way too high, especially for genre stuff. There's a load of very bad fantasy, sci-fi, and horror rated at 4+ stars so take most of it with a grain of salt.
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Ben Nevis posted:Yeah. There's a lot of that. Also the fact that every book is basically 3.2-4.1. The lowest rated GR book I've read, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City, was really pretty good. I was curious, turns out the three lowest rated books I've read were Twilight Pariah, The Graveyard Apartment, and Universal Harvester. Twilight Pariah is an obscure just-okay horror novella by Jeffrey Ford so I can kind of get that rating, and I blame Universal Harvester's low rating on the fact that it was very stupidly marketed as a horror novel, but I'm not sure why GR hates The Graveyard Apartment. It's not a book that will blow you away but it's a pretty good supernatural horror novel and deserves a bit more attention than it got in the US. Though "hates" may be a strong word here. Like you said, even Twilight Pariah is at a 3.16. edit: I looked a little deeper in the list and it turns out The Grip of It, The Deep, The Cipher, Ararat, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, House of Small Shadows, and The Turn of the Screw are all in the "bottom" 20 on GR, of books I've read and logged, so maybe GR just generally hates horror. Hilariously, Heart of Darkness is down there too. MockingQuantum fucked around with this message at 17:37 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 17:35
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You inspired me to go back and check, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City was about 3.25 when I read it. It's down to 2.88. Many of those low reviews are in Arabic, and given that the book is about the degradation of a family over the last half century under the Assads, I have to feel like there's some motivated downvoting there.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/1743-PLUCH...tYAAOSwOLVc1G9A Does anyone here know how much a book like this is really worth? I want it for various reasons, and I am thinking of capping my bid at around 150, but I have no idea if that's underpaying or overpaying. Why can't this be like pawn stars where I can just call Rebecca in and have her tell me what it's worth before I bid?
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May 11, 2019 22:11
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yeah I eat rear end posted:https://www.ebay.com/itm/1743-PLUCH...tYAAOSwOLVc1G9A There are probably auction records or dealer listings for it. Remember that to collectors things like specific edition matter a lot, whereas if you just want the text you won’t care about anything except condition.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:https://www.ebay.com/itm/1743-PLUCH...tYAAOSwOLVc1G9A on the right day i would buy it for anything under 50, but idk that its worth anything in itself. i would never pay 150 though, thats too much for any book unless i guess its personally signed for you or something. i guess watch the bids and see if they go above? the problem with antiquarians is they know what people will pay. imo scour lovely old used bookstores and buy stuff there instead. you might not get the crown jewels, but youll get some golden nuggets for sure.
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https://twitter.com/erocdrahs/status/1127132182789742592
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yeah I eat rear end posted:https://www.ebay.com/itm/1743-PLUCH...tYAAOSwOLVc1G9A It's a second edition and only one volume of a two volume set. That said, it's a 250 year old book that looks to be in decent condition, though I didnt see any statement regarding whether the binding is original or not. Ultimately it's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. Personally, I wouldn't go much above $75 or so without some additional information.
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i too use the word consume for assimilating the concept literature
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books mostly consume me tbh
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May 12, 2019 22:36
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people like that just read self-help and "rich dad poor dad" type poo poo so I wouldnt get offended
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Imagine getting an email from a CEO of a silicon valley tech start up wanting to talk about your book he self admits to just skimming through
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What sort of person is so self-obsessed that they are so absolutely certain a bunch of pop psychology and business-lite authors are dying to hear all of your shower thoughts and hot takes on their work that you'd actually suggest they sit through your half-baked book report?
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MockingQuantum posted:What sort of person is so self-obsessed that they are so absolutely certain a bunch of pop psychology and business-lite authors are dying to hear all of your shower thoughts and hot takes on their work that you'd actually suggest they sit through your half-baked book report? CEO of a tech startup
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Mel Mudkiper posted:CEO of a tech startup Yeah I guess that is pretty self evident tbf to the CEOs of tech startups of the world, most of the books targeted at them can actually be summarized in a half sheet of pithy, usually unoriginal and obvious aphorisms, so I kinda doubt he's missing out on much. At least I hope he's not speed-audiobooking, like, One Hundred Years of Solitude and trying to track down the ghost of Marquez to discuss the meaning of the golden fishes or something like that. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe I do wish it was that
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"Dear Mr. Benjamin. I recently read your work about contemporary and digital art, and I have a few takes about your concept of 'aura' as it pertains to Instagram filters I'd like to share with you (...)"
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May 13, 2019 18:47
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coincidentally discovered this exists today lol https://readitfor.me/ now you can pay people to create lovely summaries for you!
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my bony fealty posted:coincidentally discovered this exists today lol Of course its for loving stupid ceo self help bullshit
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my school has this terrible habit of assigning 10-part pop-psy ceo thunk books to our students and I end up having to teach them and they all loving suck I once told my boss if he ever assigned a Malcolm Gladwell book I would punch him in the throat
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Mel Mudkiper posted:my school has this terrible habit of assigning 10-part pop-psy ceo thunk books to our students and I end up having to teach them and they all loving suck Would that be your... Tipping Point?
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His boss gone in a blink of an eye
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May 18, 2019 11:00
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TIL a film adapation of michael mcdowell's cold moon over babylon was released in 2017 and tommy wiseau appears in it
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My Mom used a site called FictFact to track series she's read, was currently reading, or stopped reading. It also would show her what the next book in a series was and she'd get alerts about new releases. Unfortunately the site just shut down and she's absolutely crushed. Does anyone know of something similar she could switch to?
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Spaseman posted:My Mom used a site called FictFact to track series she's read, was currently reading, or stopped reading. It also would show her what the next book in a series was and she'd get alerts about new releases. Unfortunately the site just shut down and she's absolutely crushed. Does anyone know of something similar she could switch to? Goodreads?
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Spaseman posted:My Mom used a site called FictFact to track series she's read, was currently reading, or stopped reading. It also would show her what the next book in a series was and she'd get alerts about new releases. Unfortunately the site just shut down and she's absolutely crushed. Does anyone know of something similar she could switch to? I don't know if you can track reading (I'd recommend Goodreads for that), but Book Series In Order can take care of the rest.
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1130222658904367105 edit: I have discovered twitter is good for finding Neat Old Book Stuff this was a tool for reading -- like a line marker type thing. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 13:27 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 19, 2019 22:26
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https://twitter.com/MedievalMss/status/1130900425450954752
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May 22, 2019 05:57
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goddamn post it in the "book of cspam" thread and watch a goon's head explode
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May 22, 2019 07:06
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This was a really interesting interview about the writing process: https://twitter.com/WGAWest/status/1134160266029965313
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1134688689416810496
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was waiting for the vote it go for like an hour or something?
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Bilirubin posted:was waiting for the vote it go for like an hour or something? Sorry, I got behind this month and 1491 has done well in several prior polls so I went ahead and picked it by fiat.
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Guuuuuys, I held over 200-years-old book today!  It was Johnson's Dictionary, btw. Published 1755
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A long time ago, there was an announcement about Dutton having acquired the manuscripts of two unpublished novels by the incomparable Ellen Raskin: The Westing Quest and A Murder for Macaroni and Cheese. I have never heard anything more about them. Does anybody have any information at all on those two books, or what state they were in or what happened to them?
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