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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
So you hang around with people on goodreads in order to get rhwir opinions on books you may or may not want to read
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You seem to be overly hung up on the "social" part of social networking.
I can learn people's tastes without "hanging out." Their reading/review histories tell me all about what they like and dislike. Those likes and dislikes have unions and intersections with my own that can be used when considering what I might want to read next. Meaning someone's likes that I'm familiar with might tell me to stay away from a particular book. And someone dislikes that I'm familiar with could cause me to snatch one up.
I'm often looking to get out of my own head when choosing a book to read. I've come to learn that I'm not always the ultimate expert on deciding what I might like. So I'm happy to use others (who are fairly consistent in their tastes) as springboards into "
...and now for something completely different." I don't ever intend to limit my reading influences to my own predilections and/or inclinations.
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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
It may sound like I'm criticising you and @diapdealer, I'm not, just surprised that people with your reading experience require the opinions of others regarding a book you may want to read.
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"Require" is not really the right word. For me it would be "
prefer the opinions of others..." And you may still have it a bit backwards. I'm very rarely looking for opinions regarding a book I'm already thinking about reading. I've already got plenty of books I may want to read. When looking at the reviews of others, I'm most often looking for books it probably never would have
occurred to me to read (left to my own devices).