I read all the negative/neutral GoodReads comments of the book (and author's other books if I'm not familiar with the author, and maybe Wikipedia if I want to d

I read all the negative/neutral GoodReads comments of the book (and author's other books if I'm not familiar with the author, and maybe Wikipedia if I want to dig deeper). 99% of books I learn about from recommendations (HN, blogs, other books), and the pattern I see is that the source/recommender are usually at the similar "popsci" level. I sometimes get it wrong. In most cases I just waste a few hours. The worst mistake was taking Why We Sleep to heart before I read the rebuttal. I still think it's fine, but more on a Gladwell level. Im Suleyman's case, I recognize the name from Inflection shenanigans, so already have a bias against the book to start with.