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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Why on earth does anyone want to read someone's else's goodreads impression of any book. It just doesn't make sense to me...
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It doesn't have to. The End.
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Before I'd accept anyone else's opinion of a book I'd have to have an appreciation of that person, in order to find them in any way relevant or relatable to me, and therefore capable of either influencing me, or being someone I'd find had an objective opinion.
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That's exactly what I (and many others) do on Goodreads. Cultivating "friends" and gaining appreciation for their tastes is exactly what makes their opinions valuable to me. Did you think everyone on Goodreads just blindly considers the opinions of strangers with no contextual history whatsoever? The people whose tastes I've come to know (and they don't even have to be shared tastes to be useful) are those that have come to be most valuable. That's true of readers I know in the "real" world and online.