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This review is obviously high effort. What's the incentive here? Is this what the community regularly does in Goodreads? Or are you somehow affiliated with the

by lrem 5y ago

This review is obviously high effort. What's the incentive here? Is this what the community regularly does in Goodreads? Or are you somehow affiliated with the author and treat this as a favour?

retrobox 5y ago
Other reviews for this book on Goodreads are equally high effort. It’s not uncommon to see long and insightful reviews in the Goodreads community. I’d assume good intent :)
kuu 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted when it's clear your question is out of curiosity. High effort reviews are common on Goodreads, why? Because it's a community about passionate readers and probably those who write the very detailed reviews have enjoyed reading some other reviews and want to contribute back to the community. I think it's the same reason as people contributes to wikipedia: for the sake of sharing knowledge
- rezic 5y ago
  It does come across somewhat accusatory. Without the suggested affiliation with the author it would sound less so.
- watwut 5y ago
  > I don't know why you're being downvoted when it's clear your question is out of curiosity. It is an odd question on the internet where people regularly and normally put a lot of effort into reviews, blog posts, discussion forums comments and so on. That coupled with question about affiliation probably makes people interpret is as not questions out of curiosity, but rather as sleazy way to introduce doubt on the author motivation.
  - lrem 5y ago
    Good point. That was not my intention. But my communication skills before caffeine digests are not where I would want them to be :/
gadf 5y ago
Anything to do with goodreads becomes toxic. I think that's because the types of people who read and opine about books to the extent they feel compelled to blog/review on gr, are also likely to be the types of people who brook no dissent to their opinions, neither of authors, books nor the things they make them mean. They're independent, self-trusting, artistic thinkers (in the manner of Nietzsche), and the act of engaging in bookreading, where they are in their own closeted little world, alone with the author's mind, is the pinnacle of their innate joy, but the internet of everyman wasn't built for them, so they become little despots when faced with a sea of divergence. The comment above is an example of a hanger-on to this dynamic: not quite independent enough to be a despot in their own right, but an enabler of the despotism of these little opiners, who the userbase of goodreads epitomizes so well, leading to the toxicity oozing from the seams of goodreads observable in abundance.
- gadf 5y ago
  Now some replies. Turnip: you're the one that's toxic, likes to go on Goodreads spread your little hate. Come on here, hate me standing against bullies. That's makes you toxic, supporting the toxic. I'm standing against the toxic, that's makes me awesome and good. Not like you, you're toxic. And I'm like the antidote to toxic that's why you think I'm toxic cuz you are toxic. Btw I didn't go through your history past two pages even then it wasn't worth reading it's just what I sense about you. You can talk big but I know my words are effective and I know they hit home and now you got to live with that. Karma for your comments. Maybe you'll learn those consequences and act better in future. Thanks for your cooperation and for joining in here, you really helped me do one thing I'm meant to do: stand against the toxic, like you. tutivillusrex: king of the nothing. You're so good, humble and sane. Not. It's always the crazy bad and arrogant ones that launch the insults first at others. Weekeerney999: oh no I just stand against the toxic. That makes me awesome, and good. And if you don't like that that makes you toxic.
- abraae 5y ago
  Magnificent rant, I will forward it to an editor of my acquaintance.
- egypturnash 5y ago
gjs278 5y ago
no accusations of shilling. mods!!!!!!
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rossdavidh 5y ago
Hmmmm...not sure, entirely. I think it's that, by putting in more effort, I end up processing the book mentally in a more thorough way. Something like what my grade school literature teacher might have said was the point of book reports. Thinking over "well, exactly what did I think of it?" tends to make me think over the book's contents more carefully, instead of just putting it down and immediately moving on.

by lrem 5y ago

This review is obviously high effort. What's the incentive here? Is this what the community regularly does in Goodreads? Or are you somehow affiliated with the author and treat this as a favour?

retrobox 5y ago

Other reviews for this book on Goodreads are equally high effort. It’s not uncommon to see long and insightful reviews in the Goodreads community. I’d assume good intent :)

kuu 5y ago

I don't know why you're being downvoted when it's clear your question is out of curiosity. High effort reviews are common on Goodreads, why? Because it's a community about passionate readers and probably those who write the very detailed reviews have enjoyed reading some other reviews and want to contribute back to the community. I think it's the same reason as people contributes to wikipedia: for the sake of sharing knowledge

rezic 5y ago
It does come across somewhat accusatory. Without the suggested affiliation with the author it would sound less so.
watwut 5y ago
> I don't know why you're being downvoted when it's clear your question is out of curiosity. It is an odd question on the internet where people regularly and normally put a lot of effort into reviews, blog posts, discussion forums comments and so on. That coupled with question about affiliation probably makes people interpret is as not questions out of curiosity, but rather as sleazy way to introduce doubt on the author motivation.
- lrem 5y ago
  Good point. That was not my intention. But my communication skills before caffeine digests are not where I would want them to be :/

gadf 5y ago

Anything to do with goodreads becomes toxic. I think that's because the types of people who read and opine about books to the extent they feel compelled to blog/review on gr, are also likely to be the types of people who brook no dissent to their opinions, neither of authors, books nor the things they make them mean. They're independent, self-trusting, artistic thinkers (in the manner of Nietzsche), and the act of engaging in bookreading, where they are in their own closeted little world, alone with the author's mind, is the pinnacle of their innate joy, but the internet of everyman wasn't built for them, so they become little despots when faced with a sea of divergence. The comment above is an example of a hanger-on to this dynamic: not quite independent enough to be a despot in their own right, but an enabler of the despotism of these little opiners, who the userbase of goodreads epitomizes so well, leading to the toxicity oozing from the seams of goodreads observable in abundance.

gadf 5y ago
Now some replies. Turnip: you're the one that's toxic, likes to go on Goodreads spread your little hate. Come on here, hate me standing against bullies. That's makes you toxic, supporting the toxic. I'm standing against the toxic, that's makes me awesome and good. Not like you, you're toxic. And I'm like the antidote to toxic that's why you think I'm toxic cuz you are toxic. Btw I didn't go through your history past two pages even then it wasn't worth reading it's just what I sense about you. You can talk big but I know my words are effective and I know they hit home and now you got to live with that. Karma for your comments. Maybe you'll learn those consequences and act better in future. Thanks for your cooperation and for joining in here, you really helped me do one thing I'm meant to do: stand against the toxic, like you. tutivillusrex: king of the nothing. You're so good, humble and sane. Not. It's always the crazy bad and arrogant ones that launch the insults first at others. Weekeerney999: oh no I just stand against the toxic. That makes me awesome, and good. And if you don't like that that makes you toxic.
abraae 5y ago
Magnificent rant, I will forward it to an editor of my acquaintance.
egypturnash 5y ago

gjs278 5y ago

no accusations of shilling. mods!!!!!!

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rossdavidh 5y ago

Hmmmm...not sure, entirely. I think it's that, by putting in more effort, I end up processing the book mentally in a more thorough way. Something like what my grade school literature teacher might have said was the point of book reports. Thinking over "well, exactly what did I think of it?" tends to make me think over the book's contents more carefully, instead of just putting it down and immediately moving on.