Interesting how many people I see put all their DNFs in 1. Ever since starting goodreads, I've DNF'd two books and one of them had a lot of good qualities, I just couldn't bear to go through its flaws any longer. I can't imagine giving that a 1 star.

If you’re willing, hard how? If not, thanks for the heads up😁

If the pacing was so bad that I stopped reading before the part where "it got interesting," or "those problems were addressed in a plot twist" then I'm calling it out. And I don't want to waste my time checking out a book a lot of people with similar taste to me have DNF'd due to it being lackluster.

The Three-Body Problem trilogy is pretty great. It's got a lot of technical details involving complex theories and astrophysics. Also a lot of multi-generational society building and collapses. My mind prefers the historical/human aspects, the technical jargon hurts my brain, but in a good way.

It's faster and easier. Most of the time I don't have to say much about the book other than "I liked it" or "it was boring af". Also, when I search for a book on Goodreads, I want to see rating, and I read 3-4 reviews. If some book already has 450 reviews, writing one more seems like a waste of time. I wrote a few short reviews, and all of them are for the books which had a very few reviews.

I believe so. In the Fort Worth Library system, they surpassed one million checkouts for the past three years because of digital media. They've received a much bigger budget as a result, which helps them build a few more branches and buy more books.

Life has become so chaotic and busy, I relish what little time i get to be “bored” now.

I don't feel bad giving 2's and 1's because I know the average score, composed of thousands of ratings, will not weigh heavily into my low score. Most books are read by people who like them and who can appreciate them.

Everything has to be right now! Kids have no patience to read a book…

5 stars - Amazing book, I feel like a better person having read it, I'll gladly reread it. Moved me in many ways, not too short or too long, no major flaws.

4 stars - The flaws did not affect how much I enjoyed the book but I recognize them, or most of the book was amazing except for some grating flaws that detracted from my experience; the book was fun/interesting but I wasn't going crazy for it

3 stars - An okay reading experience but there were several issues/things I dislike in books. Other people with different writing style, trope, and genre preferences probably appreciate it more than I did. Still I'm glad to have read it.

2 stars - Book was so bad I didn't finish, but still had some merit. I was able to read a lot of it before giving up due to the amount of good parts.

1 star - Everything the author tried to convey was not reaching me. I didn't enjoy any part of the reading experience.

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Go for it. I found it much harder than I expected or was ready for. It might be different now, but my to read list is long enough.

It just defeated you? I’ve had books that’ve beat me and I’m not ashamed to say it. It’s just GED has been on my list for so long I do t want to give it up before I started, you know?

I got lucky in that respect, I think. For reasons, my grandmother paid for me to go to Catholic school. There was a nursery attached, and from 8 weeks old on, I was with the nuns from 7am to 6pm, Mon-Fri. They read to us. A lot. They also made us copy pages of the encyclopedia or the Bible anytime we misbehaved.

...I had an excellent vocabulary by the time I was seven. I had also developed a deep love of reading. Nuns are perhaps not the best judges of what children should be allowed to read. They let me go through their library and pick whatever I wanted. The school went up to eighth grade, so there I was, eight years old and trying to read The Count of Monte Cristo. [I needed Sister Barbara to explain a lot of it to me, but she was usually doing needlepoint and actually never seemed to mind.] [TBF I did not grasp the book until I was older, I just thought it was super cool that he escaped from prison and went on a Quest for Revenge]

I stand corrected! I thought it was just a short article and didn’t realize they paywalled me at the end.

Bummer!

Man, I haven't reread the series in a few years. I didn't even remember that detail but it is a great one. Time for a reread!

One thing that stuck with me from my recent reread that they didn't have in the movies was what happened with the traps they set against the rebels in the capitol when the final fight was happening. That as the rebels advanced pods started to go off and mutts attacking the capitol citizens. They cared more about keeping control than protecting the citizens. But that was why the strike against the kids that killed Prim was so easily attributed to them and why Katniss had more trouble figuring out who did it.

I do think parents take some responsibility here too. School is there to teach you TO read. Parents have to encourage a love of reading and demonstrate it. If I ask my friends who don't read, if their parents read, the answer is no.

I picked up reading becuase my dad reads. He would read the hobbit to me at night, and lord of the rings. I would SEE him reading and ask about the stories and be so fascinated by these other worlds. And then at 8/9 when I started reading novels, he would share HIS books with me, and read the things I picked up and we would discuss Harry potter and eragon and whatever else I'd picked up. He was always happy to take me to the book shop and buy me books, never complained that I read them too fast or that they were too expensive, never told me I couldn't read something becuase it was adult fantasy and not child or young adult.

And if non of that had happened, if he hadn't of cared or shared that with me, I probably never would have picked up a book, and I certainly wouldn't be a reader to the extent I am now.

Do kids get these paywalls too?

If you ever want lighter sci-fi, look for space opera. But congratulations!

Myself I prefer sci-fi that emphasizes social or political or biotechnology or aliens rather than math, engineering or physics. But there is room for everyone and their tastes.

Love the stuff that makes me think. The "Ancillary Justice" trilogy, by Ann Leckie, and pretty much everything Frank Herbert wrote.

Godel Escher Bach defeated me. I'm not willing to work that hard. I love Name of the Rose though. I tried G E B, based on Name of the Rose and it's different.

Do I need to be mathematically advanced to understand/enjoy it?

If not them, find the largest library district closest to you. Most allow you to still get a card , outside of your town. The larger they are , better funding, better digital catalog. Or ask the local librarian when you have time , I asked for a tour last year, the amount of resources available was shocking.

5- It’s overall amazing. Plot, writing, not corny at all, good pacing, good ending, sticks with me after I’ve finished reading it. Only top favorites ever get this rating for me.

4- Most good books I read get a 4. I like it a lot but there are one or two things that bring it down, maybe it’s a little slow at first, maybe the ending is ok but not perfect, maybe it’s very entertaining/ a page turner but has an element of cheesiness.

3- Good enough to not give up halfway through but I still feel a bit disappointed at the end. Sometimes I will think I love a book the whole time I’m reading and then the ending falls very flat- this is when I rate it a 3.

2- Not that enjoyable or interesting to read, poorly written, bad ending, etc. If a book is feeling like a 2 I probably won’t finish it.

1- A book would have to be so terrible that I stop reading it for me to rate it a 1.