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Originally Posted by issybird
Why not read a few reviews at Goodreeads?
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Thank you for this suggestion. I use Goodreads, but in the past it was always for books I was considering reading, not to refresh my memory on ones that I already read. So I would look at the total number of reviews to gauge popularity, the average star rating to gauge quality, and maybe a review or two that did not contain spoilers but told me a little bit of the plot so I could determine if the book would be interesting to me or not.
But what I found when I went back and looked at reviews in more detail, including the spoilers, is that there is an unending line of people willing to type in hours-long tomes covering every minute detail of the book and how it affected them personally, how their life changed because of it, their innermost thoughts about the author, dreams that the book has spawned in them, etc.
I came out of that deep dive knowing more about the book in question than I knew about it immediately after reading it! Cliff's Notes has nothing on this crowd of reviewers. I would definitely go to Goodreads if I were still in school and had to write a book report on a book I hadn't read!
Thanks for the suggestion! I can now go continue with the third book in the series with 99.999% of the plot and characters fresh in my mind.