#787

Red Riding was so twisted and awful I could never actually recommend it to anyone. Unfortunately I had to read all four although it took me ages because I couldn’t just start the next one straight away.

So amazing writer and hence I gave him the nod but fucking hell, no one needs the horror and grimness of Red Riding actually in their lives.

#788

It makes keeping track of books so much easier than relying on my puny brain or remembering where I have things written down, it is great.

Obviously ignore reviews and ratings etc.

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#789

I mean I can get Goodreads hate from two areas really:

  1. The website is an absolute horror show in terms of usability and clarity
  2. It’s owned by Amazon do de-facto ‘evil’ in the world of books, which is why I thought @wonton was getting grumpy about it, TBH.

It’s useful, though. It could just do with a site overhaul.

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#791

I try to ignore the amazon bit. Site usability is fine for my needs tbh, I just want to add things to lists and be able to switch what lists things are on, it does that fine.

#792

:joy:

Started that off thinking, “I guess Flann O’Brien sounded like Alan Bennett,” before I worked it out :smiley:

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#793

Where are people suppose to read books if you don’t print them onto menus for your customers?

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#794

The food was served on books instead of plates

#795

Yeah and @anon26275971 I actually also like the feature where you can ask questions about books and occasionally the author will answer.

The usability thing is like how if someone comments you can’t @ them so there’s no ability to develop a conversation particularly. There are also a lot of weird little bugs like if you are looking at an answer for a book question and you click ‘show spoilers’ you get it repeating the bit before the show spoilers.

I have often ended up with the same book but two versions on my list, it doesn’t seem to clock this at all, and it defaults to US versions of books even if they’re British which is frustrating.

It took me far too long to work out how to make a new shelf for ‘gave up’ that actually worked and didn’t mean the book was in my ‘read’ list, etc.

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#796

Yeah I give basically everything a 4, I mainly use it for keeping track/setting goals/showing off

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#797

Didn’t serve food. Just booze, snacks and the occasional rebel singalong.

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#798

Sounds good. Where was it?

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#799

Should have had a few bicycles propped up at the bar

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#800

Always takes me ages to figure out how to delete one

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#801

Often go with a 3 because when you hover over 3 stars is ‘I liked it’ and 4 stars is ‘I really liked it’ and that’s not often the case! Two stars is ‘it was ok’.

#802

Read it.

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#803

Haha there was one behind the bar up above it. And a fish tank built into the back bar.

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#804

Bath.

#805

Come Out Ye Bath and Flanns

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#806

I’ll see myself out.

#807

Hey it was on the menu and I read it and I hated it. It’s not like I would likely ever read James Joyce anyway TBH because I hardly ever get around to authors from years back. :smiley: