GoodReads

I have reviewed many books there, and am a nice person.

I'm on there. I rate stuff, but I don't usually bother to review anything. I just like having a record of what I've read over the years.

I didn't reply to the snarky comment, because it just seemed like bait. It seems like that person's a 24/7 resident there. I guess I'll just block that person, but I am a bit fascinated by the way people interact there. It seems very clique-ish.

Internet = insane people who have finally been able to reach out to the world from the safety of their basements OP.

Why is this a surprise? You should be used to it from posting on Datalounge.

Well, yes; here, we're anonymous (I hope) and expected to be eccentric and bitchy. But I found it odd that people who are kind of not anonymous would call Pulitzer Prize-winners and bestsellers "boring." and give them one-star reviews.

I review on there a lot. I like it and kind of love when the morons show up on my reviews. R5, I understand you're talking about a certain cabal of trolls but aren't there any Pulitzer Prize-winning or bestselling books that you'd give one star?

"bestselling books that you'd give one star? "

Oh, yes; my guilty pleasure are those horrid yet bestselling female romances with Scottish studs lifting their kilts. Pure trash!

I don't review on Goodreads. I sometimes review on Amazon. I've heard some nasty stuff goes on at Goodreads though and most authors avoid it like the plague. (Don't know how true that is though) I'm not sure why you feel the need to tell everyone that there are lots of women who like gay books that you don't like. So what? Do you think your opinion on gay books is more valid in some way? Not trying to be nasty here, just want to know.

Some woman reviewed the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy on that site and they were the funniest, best things ever.

The problem with Goodreads is that people use it for validation rather than expressing a genuine opinion. When they make a comment on a book, they don't actually care about the comment, what they are really trying to do is get other people to like their comments so they can feel all important.

The problem with Data Lounge is that people use it for validation rather than expressing a genuine opinion. When they make a comment on a topic, they don't actually care about the comment, what they are really trying to do is get other people to like their comments so they can feel all important.

I don't pay that much attention to whether folks love my reviews or not. I want to give someone who is considering the book an idea of what to expect.

Like R2, I signed up primarily to use the site to track my reading. I rate but do not review. I very rarely read any comments or reviews. I will occasionally read some comments after finishing a book and am curious to see how others felt about the book or to clarify some understanding. But I'm usually done after a few minutes. GR just doesn't hold my attention.

I also use the annual Challenge to stay on course of reading regularly. It was derailed by the election though. So aimed for 30 books and only completed 18. I read 27 last year so I thought 30 was a reasonable goal. I don't know how people can read 100 books a year. Guess it would help if I pried myself away from the internet...

R13 is only 14 but reads at a 11th-grade level.

R14 must be one of the GR trolls who made his way to DL.

Sorry, a little off topic, but I'm still trying to figure out why and how RHONJ convicted felon and Trump lover/voter Teresa Guidice's book got bad reviews everywhere, especially GoodReads and yet she made it to the NYTimes Best Seller list for many consecutive weeks. And for a while it was #2 on the NYTBS. I saw excerpts of her book and it was pure trash. Most of the GR reviews said that although she had a ghost writer (since she can't string enough words together to form a coherent sentence and also has the vocabulary of a 6th grader) it was still bad.

The Reply to those on GR who rated her book poorly was; "You didn't read the book, did you." Anyway, due to GR trolling I do not take the reviews on there seriously.

Drama! Racism! Bullying! Hate campaigns! This is just a sliver of the professional trolling that goes on at GoodReads:

I rate but don't review, have found Goodreads to be slightly low-brow. If I want serious criticism and evaluation I'll read London/NY Review of Books.

I'm with r2, r13 and r13 with the rate but don't review. I do have annual reading challenges. I review if a book is exceptional in either a bad or good way.

I haven't seen much lately of the use of animated gifs as reviewing tools "When I picked up _Reel Me Around the Fountain_ I was like [animated gif] and when the supersnarky boy went like [animated gif] I was all [animated gif] until the part in Santorini where he met up with the local lad and I was like [animated gif]." That could be a fad amusement I guess: pretending to be a 14-year-old reviewing literature classics like they were her first John Green novel.

I too once got lost down the rabbit hole of reading a lot of longwinded "feels"-filled gif-y women reviews of gay books. It was like being stuck in a maze of teenage girls' bedrooms, each cluttered with Teen Beat posters.

Urgh, I meant r18. So sorry. No glasses and no coffee means tedious typos and yawn-rich apologies.

Goodreads has the same problem as many book stores. Trashy 'M/M' fiction, erotic fiction about gay men written by and for women, drowns out gay fiction. Really they are different categories and should not be mixed up.

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[quote]I don't pay that much attention to whether folks love my reviews or not.

I do. I wrote about 10 reviews 10 years ago and I think I've had ONE SINGLE "like".

I like LibraryThing for cataloging my books, because the recommendations system and the tagging is more sophisticated.

I've gotten some of the best recommendations for books I've enjoyed over the last few years from the various book threads right here on DL. And that's been for both contemporary fiction and even Victorian literature. There are a lot of smart people here, believe it or not!

Since I buy a lot of books through Amazon I also read their reader reviews, usually starting with the 3 star ("most critical") reviews which can be more balanced than the 5 stars.

I'm registered with Goodreads but rarely look at it.

[quote]There are a lot of smart people here, believe it or not!

Thank you, gurl.

I still write reviews for GoodReads because the books I read are of no interest to my friends. I feel that I want to share my feelings about a book I've just read. I rarely get any feedback from a review I've written. I first got involved with GoodReads about 6 years ago when I joined The Year of Reading Proust discussion - I thought it might be helpful to have like minded individuals accompany me as I read In Search of Lost Time. The discussion was essentially restricted to a small clique of women so I never felt inclined to join the conversation. I also joined a discussion "Never Too Late to Read Classics" but dropped out when a member told me I should have flagged my comment as a "spoiler" - I had mentioned that Cathy Linton died in Wuthering Heights . No doubt I'll continue with reviews, but I won't rely on GoodReads for social networking.

Atlas Shrugged has an average rating of 4.09 out of a possible 5. Is Goodreads a conservative site?

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I love reading the one star Goodreads reviews of books I truly hate, like Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries.

R29: more like those who read and love that book are more likely to promote and review it. The site attracts all kinds of users, across the political spectrum.

R28 You sound like a really interesting person. I wish there was s way to connect. I can't stand the cliquish discussion groups either.

The links at R30-32 confirm what I suspected the few times I've been there, that readership is mostly very conventional, uncurious women/girls of 14-34 with very middlebrow tastes.

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OP is a racist troll.

That's probably why he got attacked.

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