Thread: Goodreads Ratings Then and Now
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Old 06-25-2014, 04:37 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Geralt View Post
I think you can trust Goodreads's ratings when there are 15000 ratings and the average is 4.5. You can be pretty sure that's a good book.
Heh. There's a book with 284,000 ratings and an average of 4.1 stars, but I rated it 1 star, because it's godawful.

You can't go only by ratings, even a kajillion of them.

ETA: And another with over a million ratings and an average of 4.44 stars, to which I similarly gave one star and for the same reason.
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