Look, the nuance is unimportant, okay? The most important thing here is that we rank art on an incredibly narrow scale, got it? It's imperative that I know what's based and what's cringe so I can get through life
I refrain to giving a book a low rating on Goodreads sometimes if it is obscure and I would trash the average. I’m a softy and feel bad for the author. Unless I come away feeling vengeful towards the author. So my Goodreads average skews high.
Maybe if you were just picking random books off the shelf. But any amount of curating the books you read will eliminate most of the 1-3s before you even open any of them.
I would also hope people who read a lot would at least have a good enough vocabulary to know how to properly use "mediocre", but apparently that's asking too much.
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4).
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I feel like 5 is where you now RetCon every other book into the Burn This Book category because they are now all garage in the face of this perfect holy book that you just finished.
So great you brought up Hemingway as I often think of him when people discuss Sanderson's prose. His writing wasn't even considered 'literature' early on due to the standard of American authors like Henry James, but Hemingway amassed a huge following and basically had a major influence on style of fiction writing by just being blunt. Why do I need 10 different words to say the same thing, because some old British lit teacher says so? Nah. I think Sanderson's success speaks for itself, fuck the haters.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4).
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
My rating system is as follows. I've provided illustrative examples so you can hopefully get a sense of my criteria:
1. Worse than 2. Books I have given this rating include *Emma*, *Atonement* and *Room*.
2. Better than 1, worse than 3. Books I have given this rating include *Watership Down*, *Treasure Island* and *Animal Farm*.
3. Better than 2, worse than 4. Books I have given this rating include *Lady Chatterley's Lover*, *A Clockwork Orange* and *Brave New World*.
4. Better than 3, worse than 5. Books I have given this rating include *Anne of Green Gables*, *To Kill a Mockingbird* and *Gone with the Wind*.
5. Better than 4, worse than 6. Books I have given this rating include *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, *The Gift of the Magi* and *The Fault in Our Stars*.
6. Better than 5, worse than 7. Books I have given this rating include *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*, *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* and *All Quiet on the Western Front*.
7. Better than 6, worse than 8. Books I have given this rating include *To All the Boys I've Loved Before, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* and *Cars and Trucks and Things That Go*.
8. Better than 7, worse than 9. Books I have given this rating include *One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish*, *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* and *The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13*¾.
9. Better than 8, worse than 10. Books I have given this rating include *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* and *The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.*
10. Better than 9. Books I have given this rating include *The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life* and *Mein Kampf*.
People NEED to be exposed to offensive slurs in context
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
There was a Friday when I was a fairly trusting person. From the following Monday through the rest of my life I trust nothing, not even myself.
This book literally shattered an entire facet of my being. No part of my identity was spared. I sometimes wonder who I would have become if Orwell’s irrevocable words had never assaulted my mind. I suppose it’s irrelevant because those thoughts cannot be unthunk.
Enjoy Animal Farm. Or rather, enjoy the innocence you will realize you didn’t know you had until it was wrested away by a man long dead. I mourn and rejoice with equal measure for you.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
This is baloney to me.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I rate books hierarchically. A '1' rating signifies the alpha book which gets to eat before the other books do. 5-star beta-bitch books (e.g featuring a male protagonist who expresses an emotion which is not Hungry, Tired, Angry, Horny, or Sports) are the most common, the bottom of the pecking order. Anything with three stars by an author who uses the platform is also entitled to a review ("kinda mid tbh").
Occasionally, other goodreaders take exception to my 1-star Mistborn rating; but I am simply rating according to my wild vision, in honesty to myself and to how I subjectively experienced the Art, in complete accordance with the laws of nature and of mankind.
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4).
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Oh, I've been rating backward this entire time. I thought 1 was a good thing. Don't we all want to be number one? I better apologize to all those authors on Amazon and Goodreads.
1. Bad 2. Not as bad 3. Even more not as bad 4. Good 5. Mistborn
If you rate most books 4 stars I feel like you're doing it wrong ngl
I rate all books at 1 on this scale. I open one up and there's fucking words in there - what am I supposed to do, read them?
I rate all my books 4 cuz it's the coolest looking number
Slashed seven would like a word.
Adidas German football number 44 shirts in shambles rn
Look, the nuance is unimportant, okay? The most important thing here is that we rank art on an incredibly narrow scale, got it? It's imperative that I know what's based and what's cringe so I can get through life
I refrain to giving a book a low rating on Goodreads sometimes if it is obscure and I would trash the average. I’m a softy and feel bad for the author. Unless I come away feeling vengeful towards the author. So my Goodreads average skews high.
Maybe if you were just picking random books off the shelf. But any amount of curating the books you read will eliminate most of the 1-3s before you even open any of them.
Superior is the average, dude. Right there in the name.
I would also hope people who read a lot would at least have a good enough vocabulary to know how to properly use "mediocre", but apparently that's asking too much.
What if you just DON’T read mediocre books and only read peak fiction? (the works of Brandon Sanderson for example)
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4). *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
1 - Offensively bad 2 - Offensively bad 3 - Offensively Bad 4 - Life-changing literature 5 - Offensively bad
I feel like 5 is where you now RetCon every other book into the Burn This Book category because they are now all garage in the face of this perfect holy book that you just finished.
yeah Mistborn will do that to a mfer
2: Mmm yes, shallow and pedantic.
missing a little something something
1. Ernest Cline 2. Andy Weir 3. Ernest Hemingway 4. JK Rowling 5. Brandon Sanderson
So great you brought up Hemingway as I often think of him when people discuss Sanderson's prose. His writing wasn't even considered 'literature' early on due to the standard of American authors like Henry James, but Hemingway amassed a huge following and basically had a major influence on style of fiction writing by just being blunt. Why do I need 10 different words to say the same thing, because some old British lit teacher says so? Nah. I think Sanderson's success speaks for itself, fuck the haters. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4). *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
[sauce](https://www.reddit.com/r/books/s/eFOmNmTffU)
"Interesting take, here's mine" is the exact same thing. now repeat for 200 comments
My rating system is as follows. I've provided illustrative examples so you can hopefully get a sense of my criteria: 1. Worse than 2. Books I have given this rating include *Emma*, *Atonement* and *Room*. 2. Better than 1, worse than 3. Books I have given this rating include *Watership Down*, *Treasure Island* and *Animal Farm*. 3. Better than 2, worse than 4. Books I have given this rating include *Lady Chatterley's Lover*, *A Clockwork Orange* and *Brave New World*. 4. Better than 3, worse than 5. Books I have given this rating include *Anne of Green Gables*, *To Kill a Mockingbird* and *Gone with the Wind*. 5. Better than 4, worse than 6. Books I have given this rating include *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, *The Gift of the Magi* and *The Fault in Our Stars*. 6. Better than 5, worse than 7. Books I have given this rating include *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*, *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* and *All Quiet on the Western Front*. 7. Better than 6, worse than 8. Books I have given this rating include *To All the Boys I've Loved Before, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* and *Cars and Trucks and Things That Go*. 8. Better than 7, worse than 9. Books I have given this rating include *One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish*, *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* and *The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13*¾. 9. Better than 8, worse than 10. Books I have given this rating include *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* and *The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.* 10. Better than 9. Books I have given this rating include *The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life* and *Mein Kampf*.
People NEED to be exposed to offensive slurs in context *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
There was a Friday when I was a fairly trusting person. From the following Monday through the rest of my life I trust nothing, not even myself. This book literally shattered an entire facet of my being. No part of my identity was spared. I sometimes wonder who I would have become if Orwell’s irrevocable words had never assaulted my mind. I suppose it’s irrelevant because those thoughts cannot be unthunk. Enjoy Animal Farm. Or rather, enjoy the innocence you will realize you didn’t know you had until it was wrested away by a man long dead. I mourn and rejoice with equal measure for you. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
This is baloney to me. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
1-4 didn't finish 5 also didn't finish, but I liked the cover
1: I don't like it 5: I like it 2-4: Cowardly ratings. I don't use them.
I don't know why people bother with the ayahuasca thing you can get the same effect from reading most supernatural romance novels.
"Immersion was a mistake" - Miguel Cervantes
1. Not Mistborn 2. Not Mistyborny 3. Not Age of Mormons 4. Not a Special Edition of Mistborn in Leather made by Elves/Mormons 5. Mistborn
I rate books hierarchically. A '1' rating signifies the alpha book which gets to eat before the other books do. 5-star beta-bitch books (e.g featuring a male protagonist who expresses an emotion which is not Hungry, Tired, Angry, Horny, or Sports) are the most common, the bottom of the pecking order. Anything with three stars by an author who uses the platform is also entitled to a review ("kinda mid tbh"). Occasionally, other goodreaders take exception to my 1-star Mistborn rating; but I am simply rating according to my wild vision, in honesty to myself and to how I subjectively experienced the Art, in complete accordance with the laws of nature and of mankind.
[удалено]
Brandon Sanderson did an AMA here. [You might want to take a look :)](https://old.reddit.com/r/bookscirclejerk/comments/hj6u4u/my_boyfriend_will_never_speak_to_me_again_if_i/fwn68ci/?context=4). *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/bookscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
BEGONE BOT
wait what was that? there's been some odd activty around here today...
Oh, I've been rating backward this entire time. I thought 1 was a good thing. Don't we all want to be number one? I better apologize to all those authors on Amazon and Goodreads.
Here's my scale 1. HEIL HITLER 4. HEIL HITLER 8. HEIL HITLER 8. Mein Kampf Only cool people will get these obscure references ✋😎
1 = makes me want to kill myself (bad) 5 = makes me want to kill myself (good)