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Here's mine. I pretty much use it to keep track of my reading, so don't expect too much. http://www.goodreads.com/thebarkclam
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Goodreads is okay for keeping track of your library and occasionally scoring advance copies of stuff, but the whole glut of self-published nonsense and boring reviews make a large part of the site complete poo poo. I'm not surprised terrible authors are getting mad at terrible critics.
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Feb 1, 2012 15:55
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Eh, if I cared about an author being a dick, I would've never read Midnight's Children. But I did and it's the best thing I've ever read. Even Nabokov was kind of a dick. yeah there's a collection of nabokov's essays/lectures where he's pretty harsh on joyce and i think faulkner, too. guy certainly didn't hold back
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Feb 2, 2012 00:53
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Ornamented Death posted:I've had a LOT more luck getting free books from Library Thing. And not terrible, self-published poo poo, either; I got an ARC of Harbor. I might have to check that out. It's actually not that hard to get review copies from publishers if you ask nicely and have a place willing to run your review.
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Feb 2, 2012 03:38
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Quad posted:This community is more hilarious than I ever could've imagined. The "Top 100 of 2011" list is literally 100% Romance and Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy and Self-Published Paranormal Urban Romance Fantasy etc. it's not quite as great as the modern library's list but it's still funny
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Feb 3, 2012 18:15
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Somehow I became a librarian and I don't know how or why I qualify, so I guess I can always post hello.jpg as Twilight's cover if I ever want to stir up some fun.
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Feb 10, 2012 19:05
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Conduit for Sale! posted:How do you guys rate books that you liked when you were younger but probably wouldn't today? For instance, I used to be the biggest Haruki Murakami fan but I'm not sure I'd like him anymore. I don't know whether to rate it based on what I thought when I read it or what I think now, or just split the difference. I used to have an exclusive "read when I was younger" shelf but that was silly. Depends. I've got a bunch of Hunter Thompson I thought was great back in high school but don't care for now, so I split the difference, since they're kind of important to me still. But if a book doesn't mean anything to me now, I don't even bother adding it.
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Feb 19, 2012 01:09
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My account says I have 138 books to-read but there's no way that's accurate. I should probably prune it sometime.
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Mar 10, 2012 05:14
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You know what I love about Goodreads? Their bustling fanfiction section.
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Mar 14, 2012 00:45
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Hedrigall posted:Forget the fan fiction, I found the next great scifi author of our time! Hey cool, ulillillia wrote a new novel!
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Mar 14, 2012 01:26
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They purged their site of a lot of book information a while back because an agreement with Amazon lapsed out or something. A bunch of my books got merged with other editions, too.
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Mar 20, 2012 18:28
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GR also has a much better selection of self-published eBooks about vampires in it's freebie section, too.
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Jul 12, 2012 01:08
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Are you telling me insecure self-published authors can't handle criticism? I'm surprised and shocked. Besides, who actually reads the comments at the bottom of reviews anyway? I don't think I've ever done that.
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Jul 13, 2012 16:44
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My favorite story is the one about an author who wrote a book full of typos and frantically tried to get a reviewer to re-read her book, in a "safety backup copy" nonetheless, and melted down on the comments section of said reviewer's blog. It's foolish to take these people seriously, they're the people you meet at a fiction writing class who don't listen to the teacher and say "well you don't know what you're talking about" when their Twilight fanfiction gets handed back to them without a mark. The whole self-published section of Goodreads is a dump, anyway.
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Aug 20, 2012 04:08
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I just wrote in votes for everything this year. I figured I'm the only person voting for Brendle's rad book of poems, but whatever. I assume 50 Shades of Grey will win every category anyway.
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Nov 16, 2012 03:20
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Zola posted:This would only be useful to someone with hundreds of books, but... Ah, so that's where those things come from. Sometimes when I go to used book fairs, there'll be a guy or two with one of those (or something like it anyway) scanning the UPC of each book. I assume they're trying to find whatever's valuable or first editions they can flip for cash.
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Jan 17, 2013 01:11
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Is there a way to block people on Goodreads? Some christian author is sending me a friend request a day and it's getting annoying.
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Apr 2, 2013 00:33
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Qwo posted:While on the topic of bad reviews, this guy is the worst fucker ever, I hate the way goodreads weights reviews because I have to see this pretentious nitwit everywhere. He makes me spew vomit through my teeth. I wish goodreads would order reviews by some metric other than "most likes/comments/review length", but I guess a computer can't sort by "self-important". Ahahaha this guy rules, his reviews keep shoehorning in Tolkien for some reason his review of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War posted:If the secret to enjoying Tolkien is skipping all the poetry and troop movements, I never thought this reflected poorly on poetry as an art, but I must admit I never realized that there was an art to the military memoir to reflect poorly on. a book by Joseph Conrad posted:In 1936, J.R.R. Tolkien gave a speech on Beowulf that completely changed the way scholarship on the poem was approached. Prior to this, it was studied for almost purely historical reasons... also lmao at this: quote:It was not only the philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes, not only the many levels of both meaning and humor, it was the exploration of reality itself; sometimes funny, sometimes poignant.
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naptalan posted:Speaking of reviews, since we're discussing Keeley (here's his Eragon review - featuring Byron and Robert E. Howard), what reviewers do you guys actually like? What other terrible reviewers do you see everywhere on the site? I generally ignore the reviews since it's more of a socal/recommendation site for me, so nobody really stands out. Sometimes for kicks, I'll dig up cool one-star reviews like this. No idea who he is, but I like Steve's reviews: they're quick and to the point. And I know this guy posts here, but I can't remember who it is. But I like your reviews, too.
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