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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Goodness someone else who looks to others goodreads opinions. I appreciate you've also said you read opinions published in the media, and that makes more sense to me.
Meanwhile, it just seems that experienced readers (like yourself) can work it out for themselves.
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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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
I don't need to read a review to work out if I want to read a book. For an author I haven't read before I use goodreads to establish their nationality, because that has relevance to me, I rarely read US authors for example.
I read the book's description, what other books the author may have written, and series info, all of which goodreads usually provides.
I don't log into goodreads, and don't converse with anyone on goodreads, or leave my own opinion on anything I've read.
Maybe that makes me more unusual, than usual  
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Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, that seems weird. How do you know if the writing is any good? To me, it makes a lot more sense to rely on people you know with similar tastes.
But then we are all different.
