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I loved the books. The movies took a lot of the enjoyment away for me, but I could see myself reading them again in a few years.

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Wow, really? I feel like I only ever really see genuine compliments and critique of the Hunger Games.

Only time I ever see people trash it is over the ending

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5- perfection, wouldn’t change a word

4- liked it a lot

3- it was okay/just average

2- not good

1- a scourge on the face of the earth

I suppose I do a mix of both?

5*: books that get a 5* I enjoyed and the characters/plot/writing style/world building is all well done. A 5* read has nothing I would want to change about it and would happily read again

4*: books that I really enjoyed but would change a minor thing. Would read again.

3*: it was a sufficient story, I probably wouldn't read it again but didn't feel like I wasted my time reading it.

2*: I finished it but had major criticisms. Wouldn't recommend to others

1*: I haven't given put any of these actually but I imagine would be a DNF.

I recently switched from GoodReads to StoryGraph and love that we have the option of 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, or full stars.

Yeah, exactly this. Nicely put.

>Don't let someone else yuck your yum.

I love this and will be using it from now on!

5 - really liked it! LOVED it even

4 - really enjoyed it, maybe some very minor irks

3 - some significant irks, maybe some writing/editing issues, plot issues, character issues

2 - many many issues, difficult to continue or enjoy

1 - this was NOT for me/it was absolutely terrible/I struggle to fathom how others make it through this drivel

5 ⭐️: Amazing read 10/10 would recommend. Excellent writing/characters/world building/plot etc.

4 ⭐️: Great read! A 4 star will normally have one big issue for me or a few small problems that are easily overlooked. Ex: ending issues (I.e. rushed), character issues, writing style. It honestly depends book to book.

3 ⭐️: Decent/good read but has multiple issues (a mix of big and small problems).

2 ⭐️: Disappointing. Problems with pacing and characters. I find myself asking “what was the point?” Repetitive, etc., etc.

1 ⭐️ “WAITTTTT…. People like this?”

Hyperion Cantos ... I'm on book #2 and I love it so very very much.

What book is it? Sounds like something I would like to check out! :)

oh wow, we didn't touch it until 10th grade in my school, same with huckleberry finn

enders game was 9th grade, frankenstein was 11th

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The star system, as well as the number system is not really helpful. I’ll try to give it 5-stars if I really liked it, 4-stars if it was good, but not great, 3-stars if it was okay, but I’ll probably never read it again.

I don’t really go lower than that and I’ve only ever 1-starred one series. Usually, I’m pretty good at picking books I’ll like and I’m not super picky.

The reason I say the star/number system is bad is because of how it works. It’s only a valid measure if you’re aware of the other person’s reviews and how your feeling about books mesh with their previous reviews.Kinda like how a random stranger might tell you a pizza place sucked. You probably won’t care, because you don’t know what they didn’t like and don’t know their preferences. However, if your friend tells you it sucked because they put onions on the pizza, you’ll know you might like it, because their only complaint was about onions, which you like.

Same with reviews. I could tell you a book is 5-stars and you may hate it. We care about different things and the only way to judge it based purely off a rating is if you know what I like and what I don’t like, and you know we generally like the same things. Then the rating maters.

That’s almost never the case, though, so I generally use stars to just say “I liked it” or “I didn’t like it”. What’s important is “this is why I feel that way”. That’s everything. The reasons I liked it or didn’t.

Even that’s it’s own thing as I feel a review should be spoiler free. I think someone should go somewhere else to discuss specifics. People just use reviews to see if they’re interested in starting it.

Yes, it is how we ask for more funding. We would do physical counts of people in the library too. Ebooks are massively expensive, use them—libraries want you to be happy. Thanks for the consideration.

I am fairly similar. For a book to be a 5 star to me, it has to have some X factor (usually that I can’t explain) that puts it in a league of its own. I have to undoubtedly know the second I finish the book whether it’s a 5. I might have two of these a year if I’m lucky (not including rereads) out of a yearly average of 50ish books. I really wish there were half stars because there are some that are so close to a 5 but I find myself making an argument for the 5 and that means it’s a 4, though it’d be a 4.5 if given the option.

4 is a pretty big like and a definite future reread. 3 is a mild to moderate like and possible reread. 2 is mild to moderate dislike but usually with an aspect that I liked. 1 is loathe entirely.

I stopped reading when I immigrated to the USA and started highschool here. Went from barely any homework to hours of it every day. I stopped reading anything that wasn't assigned (and often didn't do assigned reading). My classes were either "college prep" and slow and mind-numbing, or honours/AP and very time consuming outside of school hours. In grade 11 I was in all AP, and have so many memories of my parent trying to get me to go to bed around 1AM before going to bed themself, and of my staying up hours after they did to do schoolwork and study. In grade 12 I did almost all College prep and dropped my AP math class halfway through the first semester so I wouldn't fail it. I had free time again but now hated school and was bored in my slow easy classes.

This is 100% my jam! If you're enjoying Orson Scott Card, here's some other authors I'd recommend who hit a similar balance of mindbendy concepts, speculative science and fun styles/stories:

• Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos stuff
• Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought stuff
• Anne Leche
• certain Neal Stephenson stuff (Diamond Age, Seveneves)
• certain China Mieville stuff (Perdido Street Station, The City & The City, Embassytown)
• Robert Charles Wilson

We read it in 7th grade at my school…

That first sentence is just too true, Marvel latest example.

Hunger Games is 100% cut above the rest when it comes to YA dystopia

Nothing to do with software. It's an arbitrary restriction by the publishers who charge by number of copies.

There tends to be two camps, one that explains the core ideas of the world to you, and the other that just tosses you into the deep end and lets you figure out how to swim.

Dune does a great job of explaining things as they come up.

This Is How You Lose The Time War just tosses you in.

Both ways can be excellent.