The most successful GoodReads group is a feminist coffee table appreciation society.
GoodReads thread? Do we even want to use this site anymore? What are you currently reading? Your target for this year? Etc, etc.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50993735-emma-watson
> biggest book group on site
> only read two books
it's rym for books, only with far more stupid teenagers. what else is there to use?
>>7753856
We don't really have much choice for literature-based communities…
>>7753856
Just stay with the /lit/ crowd that don't meme and you're still in good hands with goodreads.
No. That's stupid. That would be like not coming to /lit/ because you don't enjoy one of the other 4chan boards that you never have to visit.
Most people here don't use goodreads for the community anyway.
I'm one of their members
>>7753872
Like who?
Most profiles people post in these threads have complete meme profiles on that site.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/29831737-pinkyivan
Currently reading Resurrection by Tolstoy, Silence by Shusaku Endo and Ethics, History of moral Thought by Peter Kreeft
I just ordered a used Kobo reader and assuming it works my goal is to read all of Plato and Aristotle from what I have left and Between Light and Shadow by Marc Aramini. Also Book of the Short Sun and maybe get around finishing Moby Dick.
>>7753873
This. I use Goodreads more for keeping up to date with what I've read, my book collection and the few friends on my friends list to see what they're reading or interested in. I don't review outside of giving star ratings.
>>7753878
Really? I've not come across meme-teens on Goodreads. Most people I know on that site from /lit/ are open to recommendations and discussion.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/40786105-oliver-bagshaw
Currently reading Moby Dick. Actually really enjoying it so far but I know I'm still in the early stage of the book.
>>7753855
In fairness, she started the group in January and they plan on reading a book a month (imo that's a slow pace but I understand that it's meant to be a casual group). As long as they actually read classics of feminist literature (The Color Purple is a good start), then they're OK in my book, even though I'm not a feminist. I'm just kinda indifferent to it.
I bet a lot of people only joined her group because she's Emma Watson, too. You get those types thinking they're close to celebrities online like that.
>>7753882
I'm already friends with you but please de-meme your profile pick dude.
I can rate, store and find new books to read. That's all I need.
>>7753952
Fuck no this is the most landmark pepe lit has ever made.
Also I used to have some other pictures, but nah, seeing them wasn't nearly as satisfying.
I use it for keeping track of what I plan to read and what I've already read. Don't really have any "friends" on the site because I really don't give a shit.
Did look around the site once and was extremely disappointed by the community.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/52121352-holly-mid--spencer
I'm open to any suggestions
>>7754194
Same for me, I wish you could give half stars/ proper ratings as most my books sit between 3 and 4 stars
>>7753911
>(The Color Purple is a good start)
you make me want to puke
>>7753855
>Favorite Genres
>Gay and Lesbian
What did she mean by this?
>2016
>not being part of the lit meme team in goodreads
We are the new Beats.
>>7753840
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28307502-reuben
Currently reading nothing, but will probably start As I Lay Dying tonight/tomorrow.
>>7753840
Goodreads is huge, and most readers in general are women. If you are going to the goodreads top lists for your reading you will eat shit, but if you have like 50-60 /lit/ friends you will get some good recommendations. Just dont talk to each other, its like a gay bathhouse in a middle class community.
>>7753878
Just post in the goodreads threads, accept friends, and scroll through feeds to see what is being read.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7656933-bill
>celebrity
>with goal of 12 books
>reading progressive feminist "literature"
Ill ignore her just like I ignore all my family's goodreads accounts.
>>7753840
Yeah but see I'm friends with all /lit/ folk so I don't have to interact with that side of goodreads at all.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51263955-motz88
currently reading "The Adventurous Simplicissimus" and I really enjoy it. Next will be either "Notes from the Underground" or "No Country for Old Men"
>>7753840
goodreads is for the idiots that came from /mu/.
Nobody cares about that facebook.
>>7754417
quite untrue, for the last 6 years on new years all the neets post their reading challenges and call each other dirty plebs before jerking off and going to bed before the ball drops.
>see the 'readers online now' thing which is apparently local users
>almost all of them have shit taste or read self-help books
>only one of them actually has some interesting stuff read
>check her blog
>she's a feminist lesbian
>>7754384
Yeah, you're doing way more than Emma Watson is.
>>7754426
p-pic related
>>7754428
You used to be able to browse local goodreads users by gender and miles from your location, they removed it tho ;_;
>>7754432
She made a speech at the UN about how feminism is really secular humanism, and then got shit on by extremists on tumblr.
Her great contribution to society has already passed her by, and it was as a child wizard.
>>7754384
> Hollywood actress and united nations ambassador
> booming social life and professional career
> only wants to read a book a month
That's actually more than most average people read in their lifetimes outside of education. Just a shame she limits herself to feminist literature rather than reading the classics.
>>7754437
not even a full wizard but a filthy fuckin mudblood, it's like she has nothing worthy to contribute ever
meh why not. first time posting goodreads pls no bully.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5819133-carnivoroussheep
>>7754531
Are you new to /lit/? I don't know what any of this is that you've read because I don't know Chinese ;_;
>>7754537
>Are you new to /lit/?
i wish. no ive been here for ages
>I don't know what any of this is that you've read because I don't know Chinese ;_;
i was adding random chink stuff i read recently but the vast majority of my shelf is /lit/core/english stuff
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/45379279-dr-benway
It's all about Litsy now
Everybody get on Litsy.
Let's make it ours.
>>7753892
Got to agree with this. There is some memeing, but it's usually done in the review, and it's done well. Anyway, it's mostly a way of keeping track of what you've read and what you'd like to read.
One example from Crito who recently reviewed the frogs by Aristophanes:
"Herakles: You like that stuff?
Dionysos: It's absolutely dreamy, man.
Herakles: It's bilge, it's awful. Nobody knows it better than you
Dionysos: "Rule not my mind. Thine own is thy mind. Rule thou it."
Herakles: No, really, it does seem the most awful slop to me.
Dionysos: ...Tell me... the quickest way to hades...
Herakles: ...You need a footstool and a rope. Go hang yourself.
Am I on /lit/ right now?"
Anyway, here's mine.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/47215306-joseph
I read one civil rights book (auto biography of Malcolm X) and now it literally will not stop shoving Langston Hughes/MLK garbage down my throat on my recommendations page.
>>7754736
>mobile only app
>iphone only
>no desktop version
yea nty
I don't understand how to utilize GoodReads, everything is rated 3.7+ and half of the reviews read like they're written by cult members.
>>7754903
Yeah, this is a problem I've realised. Everything I've read is 4 or 5 because why the fuck would I waste my time reading a shitty book. This kind of makes the reviews worthless...
>>7754903
I use it to catalog and get tangential recommendations.
https://www.goodreads.com/christophalus
Currently reading Moby Dick and about to start Norwegian wood.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
hi
>>7755092
thats not what its for. The recommendation engine runs off of a ton of variables like country written, gender of author, themes, subject matter, fiction/nonfiction/poetry, etc. When its based on your books it gives good recs.
Also, recommendations from other /lit/ "friends" you pick up
https://www.goodreads.com/pierrotz
>>7753840
is there any way to remove that crap from kindle?
> Fifty Shades Of Grey has a higher score than The Canterbury Tales and Death of a Salesman
so the majority of people who read are retarded, right?
>>7755146
I'm also reading Moby Dick, my man. How are you finding it so far? I'm personally loving it and I think it might be a new favourite.
>>7755595
As noted previously in this thread and others, goodreads review avgs are worth nothing. Individual reviews may be good, but mostly its for tracking your books and snickering at the attempts of other /lit/erati to look patrician
