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Originally Posted by HarryT
The trouble is that you're never going to get consistency between the way that people rate books. In a 5-star rating system, I'd give a rating of 3 stars (ie the average rating) to a book which is competently written, with no obvious flaws or errors, but with nothing that made it stand out from the crowd. ie nothing that makes it better than or worse than the average; that allows me to reserve 4- and 5-star ratings to books which are truly exceptional. I know many people, however, will give a 5-star rating to a book they enjoyed, even if they don't consider it to be truly exceptional, and would regard a 3-star rating as a negative rating.
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You see that style of rating in things like videogames a lot where 70% (or similar) has effectively become an average game's score.
I would tend to go with similar ratings to you, although the guidelines on goodreads seem a little more positive than that for a 3-star.