03-19-2013, 05:49 PM | #16 |
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Isn't it more plausible she's logging in all the books from one point in time forward, without all these restrictions you propose? On this topic I don't know what kinda person would it take to input all the books you have read ever @.@...Maybe if you're 5 years old. Last edited by Geralt; 03-19-2013 at 05:52 PM. |
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Another point is that 61% of the chick lit I read I give good ratings too. 60% of the fantasy books the woman on GR read she gave positive reviews to. That's still a majority. I mean how do you determine whether someone like a genre or not beyond and what your criteria for determining that? As for having poor taste, I'll say that a lot of the books that I have enjoyed and given positive reviews to would be considered poor taste by some. So YMMV. |
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03-19-2013, 06:00 PM | #18 |
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A person might input the books they remember liking or intensely disliking. Might be adding "books I read a long time ago and want to give a 1-star rating to," especially if they're otherwise popular.
I doubt she goes out of her way to read books she hates, and I doubt they make up 1/3 of what she's actually read. But they might make up 1/3 of what she cares to talk about. |
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You must not like reading if dislike so many books.
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03-19-2013, 06:28 PM | #20 |
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I just can't get over that she dissed "Mistborn"!!
Whatever her reasons, that's just nutty. If she is a feminist, it makes even less sense. The main character is a girl who overcomes all kinds of social obstacles to accomplish greatness - she even kills the uber-badguy. Luck; Ken |
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03-19-2013, 09:05 PM | #21 |
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Goodreads is very useful to read what a book is about and find similar books, but I take reviews with a pinch of salt.
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03-19-2013, 09:51 PM | #22 |
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I don't get what's "wrong" with a 2.8 average. On Goodreads, 3 stars is "I liked it", and 2 stars is "meh". So the one and two stars aren't necessarily all "I HATED THIIIIS", they're some "I didn't like it" and some "meh".
For "meh" responses/reviews, I wouldn't typically dwell on the scant stuff I liked about a book, but I might make a few notes on the things that I reacted badly to - that's not a really odd way of writing book responses. |
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Who knows? The rater in question may enjoy giving negative reviews of fantasy books that she secretly enjoys because she knows it'll get a rise out of others. In other words, she could be a troll. Or maybe she writes in the genre and wants to pooh-pooh writers she sees as competitors. Could be all sorts of motivations behind the low ratings.
I think Goodread ratings are kind of silly anyway. In essence you're summarising a book with a numerical rating. |
03-19-2013, 10:58 PM | #24 |
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Not reading per se but from my perusal of video game message boards over the years I've concluded that nobody on said boards actually enjoys video games.
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03-19-2013, 11:09 PM | #25 | |
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If she spends most of her time ravaging books, she probably doesn't have enough time to ravage the countryside. But... Then... Better safe than sorry. Uh... I'm stumped. If the world's most prominent witcher doesn't know what to do... |
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03-20-2013, 02:14 AM | #26 |
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hey geralt yes some people are clearly not in the right state of minds I have read several books which I did not like but I never said those books were bad, if I came across a bad book I did not go beyond 10 pages why would I waste my time.
Who is this person any how please share her profile link here. |
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I would only encourage people on GR that don't hesitate to give a rating of less than three stars. Some books are simply not good; those deserve a rating of one or two stars, even if the reader doesn't finish them. I rather pick a book based on a five star rating from someone that doesn't hesitate to give low ratings to books he or she doesn't like than based on a high rating from someone that only rates books with four or five stars. |
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03-20-2013, 06:49 AM | #28 |
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I am addicted to the deathland books, I have read 30 of them now. They are trashie books and and that is being nice. I intend to read them all and enjoy my guilty pleasure, but seriously it would be wrong to give them at best more than 3 stars no matter how much I enjoy them. It would just be wrong.
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03-20-2013, 07:13 AM | #29 |
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One- and two-star ratings, at least as far as Goodreads is concerned, aren't ratings which suggested hatred. Goodreads intends a two-star rating to be seen as 'meh' and a one-star rating to be seen as, quite neutrally, 'didn't like it'.
I'm somewhat choosy about what I read, and I can count on one hand the number of books I've read through which I've actively disliked, but even so my average rating on Goodreads is only just over three stars. I liked a number of books. I found a number of books suggested to me to illicit nothing more than 'meh' from me. I disliked a few. I loved a few. Unless somebody has explained their rating system in their profile, I assume that they're following the Goodreads system, wherein even a two-star rating isn't all that negative. |
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How do I find out my average rating on GR? Did you calculate it yourself?
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