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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > goodreads.com - great tool for readers
 
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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007
 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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Drunkboxer
Jun 30, 2007

Captain Mog posted:


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.

Sorry Homer!

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