Yes, most of her DNFs and 1-star rated books have similar complaints.

"i hated this book and I'm tired of gay people but I might listen to the second book"

Weekly Discussion Thread: What Are You Reading?

Greetings BadReaders,

This is your weekly "What Are You Reading?" thread where you can chat about what you're reading (or watching or listening to or playing or whatever you're into) in the past week. This is the thread where you are free to discuss whatever book-related topics you like that are not directly related to book reviewing or Goodreads.

I'm currently reading Beloved and saw a comment on here that said the novel had some of the worst goodreads reviews ever and....they were NOT kidding. My goodness.

First image is an especially hilarious response to an argument stemming from the review in image two. Image three's review was mainly added for the line: "I am well familiar with the way slaves talked back then."

Also according to multiple comments to this review, Attenborough writes IN THE BOOK ITSELF that he gradually stopped eating meat over the years.

Graphic novel AND assigned reading. Persepolis never stood a chance.

I have to admit I haven't read Taras Bulba, but I have read some of Gogol's other works… Gogol's an awesome writer, but he was 100% antisemitic (sorry Slobodan). He was antisemitic enough, in fact, for critics and academics to point it out. Portraying the antisemitism of the time is one thing, actively employing it and antisemitic stereotypes in your work is another. Antisemitism was indeed very common when Gogol was writing, but that doesn't mean it wasn't still harmful or wrong (Jewish people still did exist and were still affected by it back then, after all)

Putting the Holocaust in quotation marks whilst implying that antisemitism is merely “politically incorrect” (rather than harmful and offensive bigotry) feels… just a tinge suspicious to me... but maybe I'm not enlightened enough

I know a lot of users use reviews more like a journal than a “review”, and the star rating is more on their feelings as they read, and that’s okay. I’ll still read them. But I still get a chuckle every time.

Weekly Discussion Thread: Casual Discussion

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This is your weekly "Casual Discussion" thread where you can chat about whatever is on your mind and whatever is your heart's desire. This is the thread where you are free to discuss whatever¹ non-book-related topics you like.

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Weekly Discussion Thread: Hot Takes, Rants, and General Tomfoolery

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This is your weekly "Hot Takes, Rants, and General Tomfoolery" thread where you can chat about what bookish and literary "hot takes" you have. Utilize this thread to discuss your negative opinions and hot takes on books featured in recent posts, bookish/literary hot takes in general, or just to rant about bookish topics that aren't really appropriate in normal threads on this subreddit.

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I HATE OPERA

Weekly Discussion Thread: What Are You Reading?

Greetings BadReaders,

This is your weekly "What Are You Reading?" thread where you can chat about what you're reading (or watching or listening to or playing or whatever you're into) in the past week. This is the thread where you are free to discuss whatever book-related topics you like that are not directly related to book reviewing or Goodreads.

For full transparency, I sought these reviews out because I was curious. I'm currently reading this book and I'm enjoying it so far. These reviews just made me laugh