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I tend to review things mainly for myself, I know they're not fantastic, but if I don't then I look at it a week later and go "...Did I read that? Was it good? I don't remember that at all..."
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I only review things that are somehow notable. I normally just rate, as far as other people's reviews, I tend to just check out what my Goodreads friends have to say, and none of my non-internet friends write reviews, only rate. That winds up meaning I really only read the reviews of those of you who have friended me.
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Sep 23, 2013 10:36
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barkingclam posted:Sometimes for kicks, I'll dig up cool one-star reviews like this. Reading 1 star reviews is possibly my favourite thing to do on Goodreads. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Sep 23, 2013 |
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Sep 23, 2013 13:13
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I just created my account 30 minutes ago, so I don't have much in my lists, but I'd love to have some friends: http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MTY0NzY4NjQ6NDIy
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Sep 23, 2013 21:43
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I just approved a bunch of outstanding friend requests from folks ITT, and added anyone who posted their links after my last post. Link again if you want to friend me up (apologies to Color Me Badd): FRIENDZ!  HI THERE BOOK BUDDIES!
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Sep 23, 2013 22:53
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If you ever see me review a book that you'd also like to read send me a PM either through goodreads or SA. I usually trade the stuff I'm done reading at Half-Price Books, but I'd rather see them go to an interested goon instead. Also Here's a link to my profile again.
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Sep 25, 2013 00:25
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Is there any reason why my featured bookshelf suddenly isn't being displayed at the top of my profile? Ticking and unticking it doesn't bring it back.
Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Oct 3, 2013 15:27
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 Goodreads I love you, but sometimes your recommendations are a little out of whack. 
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Oct 10, 2013 16:54
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Is Goodreads broken for others too or just me? It looked broken yesterday on my tablet, and today on my PC too.
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Oct 17, 2013 11:37
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Nope, it's fine for me, you tried resetting your router?
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Oct 17, 2013 11:51
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Ok, so.. that sucks then. Internets hate me again. I tried restarting router and also my free back-up internet connection with different router and it still looks like this, and I also can't sign out. It's broken with another browser, freshly installed browser, after CCleaner etc. And I have absolutely no problems with any other site. edit: It's even broken with my cellphones own web which has nothing to do with any other means I've tried, I really don't understand how it's not universally broken!? 
mallamp fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 15:27
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It's like that for me too. On multiple browsers.
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Oct 17, 2013 16:20
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Looks fine to me in Chrome.
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Oct 17, 2013 17:23
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Hansen85 posted:It's like that for me too. On multiple browsers. Same here, both in OS X and Windows. Having to use the Goodreads app on the iPad.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:17
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Huh. Looks fine to me. Maybe you guys are using the same DNS or something?
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Oct 17, 2013 19:39
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PureRok posted:Huh. Looks fine to me. Maybe you guys are using the same DNS or something? Found a thread on goodreads (not without effort since the CSS is missing...) forum indicating that it appears to affect people in the Scandinavian area only.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:28
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Nettle Soup posted:I tend to review things mainly for myself, I know they're not fantastic, but if I don't then I look at it a week later and go "...Did I read that? Was it good? I don't remember that at all..." This is what I do. A lot of the older stuff on my bookshelf has no reviews at all, and looking at them I'm all "Did I read that?". Stuff I actually reviewed sparks a memory and I tend to remember better, which helps with series readings where I have to wait for a book or forget about it for a while.
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Nov 4, 2013 13:55
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I just finished added the things I remember having read to my account, and I'd love to have some friends and getting inspiration on new things to read! My profile is here. I'll be adding people from the last couple of pages of this thread.
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Nov 14, 2013 15:28
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Eh, I guess some goon friends would be cool. I read lit stuff, some sci-fi and horror and glbt interest. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5330044
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Nov 14, 2013 15:37
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Since my kindle got the goodreads update recently I figured I may as well make an account. I'm finding it very interesting seeing what other people are reading. I'm working my way through adding people from earlier in the thread, more friends would be welcome!  https://www.goodreads.com/dihaploidy
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Dec 11, 2013 11:12
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I could do with some recommendations and I'm happy to share any. My Goodreads profile isn't exhaustive, I found inputting a lot of my reading history kind of tedious, but it reflects a lot of what's on my shelves and I think I'll be keeping it up to date now that I use an e-reader. My main interests are bleak but humanist speculative fiction, non-fiction/critical film and music books and a smattering of classic detective fiction. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/11127884-craig I'll add some of you from the thread!
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Jan 1, 2014 22:28
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Mr. Squishy posted:Reading 1 star reviews is possibly my favourite thing to do on Goodreads. The Teen paranormal romance section is the absolute best place for this. Captain Mog fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 29, 2014 |
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Jan 29, 2014 22:54
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The best 1 star reviews are for classics of world literature. Everyone knows ancient writings don't always make for the lightest reading, but the concept of going on a website and writing a review to warn people off A Pilgrims Progress or something is hilarious to me. "To be honest, I just stopped reading this book 150 pages in. I thought I would like it since I just finished Percy Jackson and was digging the greek mythology and I love the movie Troy. But, the 150 pages I read was all in one battle and was basically a history like 'X fought Y. X was supported by Athena and Y was supported by Ares. X killed Y with a spear through the heart. X moved on to fight Z.' And so on and so on. SO boring. I am extemely disappointed because I wanted to like the book. Maybe it would have gotten better further in, but I felt like 150 pages of this book was 150 too many. Sorry Homer!"
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Jan 30, 2014 16:47
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A lot of those exclaim their weariness in encountering yet another such book in their quest to read through sequentially a list of a 1000 classics which had been drafted by some ad-man or other. Savage self-ownage.
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Jan 31, 2014 00:29
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Has anyone else tried out the goodreads giveaways? I've won two books so far, a neat guide to the basics on roller coaster design, and a mostly bad YA book that I entered to win because it had an interesting premise.
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Apr 8, 2014 07:38
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I've won Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Pynchon's Bleeding Edge from their giveaways. I'm also currently vying for a signed copy of The Goldfinch that I have no chance at winning (roughly 7000 others are after it as well). They're fun enough to enter, but, man, weeding through all the terrible-looking books to find the gems can be quite the process.
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By far, the most annoying thing about Goodreads are those high-rated, one-star reviews of books which consist of nothing other than a bunch of witty sayings, .gifs, and a "hell no"! Like, seriously, I don't give a poo poo if it was the dumbest book in the Universe. I don't care if it makes Twilight look like War & Peace. Tell me what you didn't like about it and why. You aren't half as funny as you think you are. Almost as bad is the infamous, passive-aggressive "Sorry that this is one of the best books ever but I didn't like it. Sorry! Don't eat me! It wasn't for me. I'm really sorry guys, okay? I'm sorry for the one-star rating. If you don't like it, too bad. *shrugs*." It's like they're daring someone to call them out on their lack of a proper review that will let me know why they didn't like this #1 NYT King bestseller. Captain Mog fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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This is pretty neat. I went and put in a bunch of books and already have a list of stuff I'm interested in reading. Guess I need to hit the bookstore. The only drawback is I'm about to move and don't need to buy any more books...
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Captain Mog posted:By far, the most annoying thing about Goodreads are those high-rated, one-star reviews of books which consist of nothing other than a bunch of witty sayings, .gifs, and a "hell no"! Like, seriously, I don't give a poo poo if it was the dumbest book in the Universe. I don't care if it makes Twilight look like War & Peace. Tell me what you didn't like about it and why. You aren't half as funny as you think you are. Those are annoying, but the most annoying thing about goodreads is self-published authors who spam Listopia with their books (usually by getting their friends to vote, or by making multiple accounts to vote, or colluding with other self-published authors to game the system together). "Indie" authors have loving ruined Goodreads.
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Captain Mog posted:By far, the most annoying thing about Goodreads are those high-rated, one-star reviews of books which consist of nothing other than a bunch of witty sayings, .gifs, and a "hell no"! Like, seriously, I don't give a poo poo if it was the dumbest book in the Universe. I don't care if it makes Twilight look like War & Peace. Tell me what you didn't like about it and why. You aren't half as funny as you think you are. Hedrigall posted:"Indie" authors have loving ruined Goodreads.
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Captain Mog posted:
Sorry Homer!
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Is there a good way of searching through the various editions of a book? For the classics, there's an infinite array of various rinky dink publications that you can arrange by various useless criteria. You can sort by format to paperback and there are still a thousand to pick through, or set it to the publication date and it peters out after 1990.
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You can search by ISBN. Aren't those unique to each version of a book?
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PureRok posted:You can search by ISBN. Aren't those unique to each version of a book? That won't work for anything prior to about 1970 or so.
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PureRok posted:You can search by ISBN. Aren't those unique to each version of a book? That should work for any books published after 1980. Between '70 and '80 it becomes more of a crap-shoot the further back you go. Goodreads doesn't have great tools for sorting editions.
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I don't have any goodreads friends, I added everyone from this page.
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Whalley posted:The one time I accepted a free book in return for a review scared me off ever accepting that deal again. The worst book exists, and it's Where Madness Roosts and the fact that it has any ratings beyond one star is a sign that I should give up on reading any self published reviews on Goodreads. I swear, one of the reviews said something like "I hated it, but I won't give it one star because it's hard to write a whole book." every book on goodreads is a whole goddamn book. I've gotten several good books from Goodreads giveaways, but I did get one absolutely terrible self-published one. Aside from the terrible writing in general, it didn't appear to have been proofread at all. One character's name was "Brian" and it was alternately written as "Brain" or "Brina". I wrote a scathing review, then felt bad about it but kept it up. It put me off anything self-published. From now on, I make sure that whatever book I'm interested in comes from a major publisher.
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Holy poo poo, Goodreads really need to sort out their filtering system for top reviews. So I’m looking at the top reviews for this book, and there’s nothing but an endless wall of GIFs. One hundred GIFs after another, posted at the top of every “review”, flooding my screen with seizure-inducing pictures which have nothing to do with the actual content within the book. I don't really mind people including pictures in their post, but when it's posted at the top of the review it's not hidden under the "see more" link. Goodreads is really becoming less of a book review site, and it’s turning into a nerdier version of Tumblr. But then again, I was in the Young Adult section, so maybe I was just asking for it.
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yes how terrible that the reviews for "Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)" are full of all kinds of nerdy crap, surely unlike the actual contents of the book
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Earwicker posted:yes how terrible that the reviews for "Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)" are full of all kinds of nerdy crap, surely unlike the actual contents of the book It's you isn't it? You're the drive-by GIF-er. Oh and also Laini Taylor is awesome. Captain Mog fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Apr 18, 2014 |
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