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For the curious, the two books loved by multitudes and loathed by me are The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Help. |
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![]() It was you who felt the need to let us all know how 1 million people rated something completely opposite from you. I call that special snowflake syndrome. |
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You know, if all the posts here were limited to pronouncements of monumental importance and none involved the personal or even trivial, there wouldn't be very much to read. Your work is cut out for you. Carry on! |
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Because you see this thread posed the question of Goodreads ratings's validity and usefulness. And I can tell you when 1 million people rate a book with 4.4 rating that's something useful to other 1 million people out there waiting to read that book. As I said before your 1 star rating on the other hand plays little to no relevance, except for personal testimony of your own taste. |
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The trouble is that you're never going to get consistency between the way that people rate books. In a 5-star rating system, I'd give a rating of 3 stars (ie the average rating) to a book which is competently written, with no obvious flaws or errors, but with nothing that made it stand out from the crowd. ie nothing that makes it better than or worse than the average; that allows me to reserve 4- and 5-star ratings to books which are truly exceptional. I know many people, however, will give a 5-star rating to a book they enjoyed, even if they don't consider it to be truly exceptional, and would regard a 3-star rating as a negative rating.
You can really only compare your own ratings; other people may not use the rating system at all the way that you use it. |
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I have always wished that Goodreads would find me my "reading soul mates:" strangers who have read many of the same books as me and rated them similarly. Then I would look at the books that person had rated highly but I hadn't read yet.
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Here is the recommended use: 1 star – didn’t like it 2 stars 2 stars – it was OK 3 stars 3 stars – liked it 4 stars 4 stars – really liked it 5 stars 5 stars – it was amazing |
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No sure thing in any case, but more often than not it works for me to find books I really will like. But it would be nice if the system could suggest possible friends to me based on the books we both rated. Unless I "meet" them somewhere online, I wouldn't know they existed. |
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Like Atunah mentioned, I use the "Compare books" feature to find reviewers to follow with similar tastes. My favorite method is to find a popular book that I disliked for specific reasons, then go through the bad reviews to find others who gave the same reasons for rating it poorly. I've also done so with books I loved for a given reason. Anyway then I hit Compare books, see what % we have in common, and what they said about my other favorites/least favorites, then decide to follow their reviews.
The highest I've seen thus far is 85%, but I'm sure there's someone out there with even more in common, my book soulmate so to speak. ![]() |
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