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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > goodreads.com - great tool for readers
 
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Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

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.
gently caress it, any review that relies on images and sassy quotes, ignoring the stars they rated the book, is the worst. I read reviews to work out if I would like a book, not to read a 1000-word long tumblr post structured like a failed Cracked article.

Hedrigall posted:

"Indie" authors have loving ruined Goodreads.
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.

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Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

 I wish I could easily come up with phrases like "At a talk is's really an awesome book that I ever read" or "I think , I'll again and again read this book" because that poo poo is hard to fake right.

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