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"they would look at my goodreads and see the shock doctrine and call me a f**t."
"I can't go to the thrift store because they've been picked clean by resellers or goodwill picks out the decent stuff to sell on their crappy eBay knockoff site."
"Let's be honest, our boy's Goodreads profile kind of gives off this vibe"
"nowhere else on the internet comes close. goodreads? fuck you"
"book forums and goodreads reviews, Mumnset etc, I swear almost all of it is unbelievably toxic"
"The goodreads editorial team regularly shill YA and mass market romance with no shame or awareness."
"Letterboxd, Goodreads, RYM - Good for curation but you can't really scroll for hours on end like the others"
"Partially because goodreads scores are so worthless. At least with movies I can follow a general rule that if it has less than 6.2 on imdb it's 99% a waste of time. But on goodreads some absolute schlop can sit at 4.6/5 just because it was only read and reviewed by the 'target audience'."
"what sort of pleasure are people getting from constantly collating and capturing all their interests in this format?"
"Also going back to the first paragraph there is a Middle school age version of It called The Fear Zone https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43909157"
"I used to read literature, but where is my goodreads account?"
"5 stars for Dave Rubins "dont burn this book" and Jordan Petersons "12 rules for life"."
"Considering creating an acc just to keep track of the books I read. I give away the physical copies usually so it would nice to have some kind of archive."
"I was looking through Goodreads profiles to find people with similar tastes to mine and look at what books they like"
"I was in a reading slump and then found the goodreads of someone from rs universe who i admired in intellectual/productivity terms. Now I'm hitting all the books on my tbr and my focus is getting better because i want to beat her."
"I've been using it for a little while now, and if nothing else it's a nice online record of what you read and what you thought about it, although its function as a social network for readers seems kinda dead."
"judging from his goodreads manifesto, there is a heavy emphasis on the destructive role of the petroleum industry"
"I trust you guy's taste better than Goodreads' algorithm lol"
"https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9338376-the-slow-cancellation-of-the-future-has-been-accompanied-by"
"Like whenever I see some poor confused reviewer asking why To the Lighthouse has no plot, I am deeply moved by the sight. There's something so endearing about watching people react to non-slop works for the first time."
"fragantica, letterboxd, goodreads, traktic… The imperative need of checking every little thing you consume into the bucket list of 'cultural signifiers that will turn you into this pinterest persona you yearn just by the act of purchasing'"
"That's why his political alignment or tweets or goodreads or whatever don't matter."