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I agree with eschwartz. I never go by other people's tags. The only metadata I download is cover and summary; the rest I fill in by hand.
My tags are hierarchical, but I limit them to two levels. I have, for instance, "Genre.Science Fiction" and "Genre.Mystery" as well as things like "Content.Prehistoric" and "Content.Alien Invasion."
That applies to my Fiction library. My "Special" library has a different set of tags, but again they're limited to just a few levels. For my cookbooks, for instance, I have "Cookbook.Asian.Chinese" and "Cookbook.Mexican." Beyond that, I have just a few basic tags for cookbooks, such as "Cookbook.Healthy," "Cookbook.Frugal," and "Cookbook.Easy" to tag cookbooks that make a claim of being healthy, cheap, or easy to fix. If you keep your cookbooks in a separate library entirely, you could even get rid of the "Cookbook" prefix.
I also have tags such as "Mythology.Monsters" and "How-To.Magic Tricks." Generally, the first part of the tag indicates the broad category while the second part refers to the subject matter.
My one concession to maintaining long lists of entries in a single field is that I have a custom "short stories" field in my Fiction library that contains all the stories in each anthology or collection. That allows me to look up a short story by title.
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