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http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1871737-tom I read mainly sci-fi, fantasy, queer lit, with a spattering of other stuff.
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Let's talk Shelves! I have a lot of goonfriends now on Goodreads and I've noticed a lot of you aren't really using custom shelves, but I think you should! It really improves your recommendations if you're looking for something particular (I check my sci-fi and fantasy shelf recommendations every time I add a new book, there's always something good popping up there). Someone here was complaining that the sci-fi recommendations page, for instance, was giving fantasy books as well. But that's due to Goodreads' automated genre system, which is lovely. If you only search for recommendations based on books that you've shelved as sci-fi, you'll get a much better array of books. You'll notice if you start some genre shelves, that the recommendations page gives you two choices: recommending books based on what you've shelved, or books based on Goodreads' idea of what genres are. Also, for a while I only had shelves of years: 2010, 2011, etc. Now I've got mostly genre shelves, and I'm going to delete my year shelves because if you go through your Stats, you can filter books by the year you read them anyway. edit: Another cool thing that shelving books will give you is better stats. For instance, here's the pi-charts of my shelves in the last two years: 2010 -  2011 -  I think it really shows how my tastes change. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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Feb 29, 2012 05:26
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Oh god. I have about 350 books on my Bookdepository wishlist, plus 200 or so that I've actually bought and have yet to read. The majority of those are on shelves in the spare room of my house. In my bedroom I have a shelf of about 50 or 60 which are "to read soon"... and out of those I have a rotating list of 15-20 which I want to read in the next few months. I have way too many loving books 
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Mar 10, 2012 06:02
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Forget the fan fiction, I found the next great scifi author of our time!quote:The grateful guest went to the kitchen, grabbed some celery from the fridge as well as a glass of milk. The coolness of the veggies soothed his hungry stomach. He got a little water after he drank the milk because milk doesn’t do a good job quenching thirst. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 14, 2012 |
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Mar 14, 2012 00:52
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tuyop posted:What's with goodreads' users' obsession with young adult novels? I hate that poo poo. Lately I've found myself reading quite a few fantasy novels for some reason. Good YA fiction is in no way different to good adult fiction, apart from less sex and swearing. Caveat: Bad YA fiction is loving terrible and is all lots of Goodreads users tend to read.
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Jun 16, 2012 00:11
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I agree, shelves are useful, especially to get recommendations from. Here's what I wrote earlier in this thread about them:Hedrigall posted:Let's talk Shelves!
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Sep 5, 2012 13:09
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I wish you jerks would use shelves more. Some of my goodreads friends have hundreds of books and they're all Read, Currently Reading or To Read. You can create shelves for genres or whatever else you want, you know! You'll get so many good recommendations if you do it, too. For example, here's all the shelves I have at the moment: all (357) read (150) currently-reading (13) to-read (121) must-read-this-year (58) stalled (15) *dying-to-read-again (13) *top-20-sf-novels (15) alien-characters (13) biography-memoir (16) discworld (7) fantasy (40) graphic-novel (4) historical (4) horror (11) humour (22) literature (19) movies (6) mystery (7) nonfiction (27) plays (1) queer (25) sci-fi (55) science (5) short-stories (20) space-horror-and-dark-sf (11) space-opera (32) spy-detective (2) young-adult (21) http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1871737-tom if some of you aren't my friends yet
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Feb 20, 2013 12:11
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And that Madeline? loving oval office
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Apr 2, 2013 01:48
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I tried to take a screenshot of it but it hosed up, but Goodreads just recommended me Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree Stories because I added Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory to my to-read list. 
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Apr 11, 2013 02:55
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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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Apr 9, 2014 23:32
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I dunno, these are some supper compelling reviews: 
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Sep 15, 2014 05:21
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I have like 170 Goodreads friends now (not boasting) from here, Reddit and my blog, and it's great to log in and see an ever-updating feed of reviews and updates from people with mostly great taste. I really wish Goodreads had a smart recommendation engine based on your friends list though. Something like "Show me books that at least 5 of my friends gave four or five stars". Anyway here I am again in case anyone else wants to friend me: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1871737-tom — I read SF/F, horror, LGBT fiction, historical fiction & nonfiction, science books, and books about film making. Oh and this is what my shelves look like: my shelves posted:read (219) Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Apr 8, 2015 09:03
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