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Originally Posted by 4691mls
If I'm trying to decide whether or not to read a book by an unfamiliar author I look at the two and three star reviews. I figure that way I'm getting the people who thought it was pretty good but had some faults (three stars) and people who didn't like it but didn't find it so completely without merit as to deserve a one star rating.
I hate when people don't tag spoilers, or when they write a detailed summary of the whole story. Maybe they are flashing back to writing book reports in elementary school? I want to know things like: Was it a fast read? Was it slow but enjoyable? Were there plot holes or too many loose ends never tied up?
Now if only I could find those summaries and spoilers when I want them... (Like when I'm browsing library listings, see a description of some thriller, don't want to read it but the blurb has made me knda want to know how it turned out).
I also don't understand why so many people complain about not being able to "connect" with the book or the characters.
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1 - I keep a zettlekasten of what I read, quotes, things that strike me. I use Obsidian so it makes a great mind map of ideas for me. One of my...less literate fellow attorneys thinks I'm writing book reports.
2 - FWIW, StoryGraph does have specific tags about the pacing of a book, whether it is plot or character driven, etc. Every time you mark a book as read, it takes you through a little survey to select all those things as part of the rating.