Not the only one, but I do sometimes feel like a judgmental jerk because I give so many 3 star (i.e., I "liked it", not "really liked" or "loved" it). But I am a big fan of accuracy.
It's a weird point of pride for me that my star average hovers just above 3. I mean, 5 stars = "it was amazing" and I just don't think very many books (or movies) warrant that. Sorry (not sorry). Goodreads mission is to help readers find books they will like so, if I am going to rate things, I prefer to be honest.
I don’t even leave stars. Rating stuff stresses me out
I can totally see that. At least you are not skewing it in either direction!
I mostly give 3 stars as well - I've got to really love something to go to 4 or 5. And I mostly don't give 1s or 2s unless something was really bad. I do have a category for "Did not finish" and I like to write notes about why. Mostly when the book was so stereotypical or just very boring.
I don't rate most books except ones I really love, which get five stars. For a while I was rating the four-star ones, but stopped for no particular reason. I do use Goodreads quite a lot to log my reading, with a lot of useful-to-me tags that I sometimes use for recommending or purchasing books for my library, as well as my extensive TBR list.
My TBR list is just sample chapters I’ve downloaded to my reader with no notes or anything so I spend a fair amount of time wondering why I snagged that one and if I really meant to (and generally yes, I did, but it was a couple of years ago after a random conversation or reading an intriguing review in a magazine)
And it’s the week that Ellery Queen and Asimov’s both come out so I will probably add some more to puzzle future me
I mean, I know it’s proverbially wrong but I do actually do a lot of judging whether or not I want to read a given book right now by it’s cover.
It annoys me when anything less than 5/5 is awful. Like, I really want a 3 to be “it was fine” (not just in rating books but anything—like if you do a survey after talking to a customer service rep and if you don’t give five stars there must be something wrong and they’ll get dinged. But then there’s no real way to be like “this person was amazing” vs “they were fine and that’s all I usually need or expect from calling to ask what their mailing address is” or whatever.
(/damn kids off my lawn)
Yeah, that has been an unwelcome development that is probably warping a lot more than is obvious
Turns out someone's been plagiarizing their erotica from Supernatural fanfic. oy
She's ripping off Dira Sudis?!?
Well, I'm glad someone figured it out! What a mess.
