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Deadmeat5150
Nov 21, 2005

OLD MAN YELLS AT CLAN
Howdy ya'll. Nettle just pulled me into this so I suppose I can be friends with you all. I like friends. I need more :smith:

Click here to be my buddy

Maybe one day I'll add all my owned books to my bookshelf on goodreads. When that days comes... it's going to be a lot of typing.

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Zip
Mar 19, 2006

Mine is http://www.goodreads.com/steven_mix
Please add me!

Also I'm on goonreads but didn't realize we had a goonreads group on goodreads.

guppy
Sep 21, 2004

sting like a byob
Is Goodreads frequently borderline-unusably slow for anyone else lately? I saw what looked like a similar issue a page or two back, but I saw it identified as a Scandinavian issue (I'm on the east coast of the U.S.) and a DNS issue (makes no sense whatsoever, name resolution is working fine).

Everything else seems to be hunky-dory connection-wise.

DannyTanner
Jan 9, 2010

It's been slow for me, but not unusably so.

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

guppy posted:

Is Goodreads frequently borderline-unusably slow for anyone else lately? I saw what looked like a similar issue a page or two back, but I saw it identified as a Scandinavian issue (I'm on the east coast of the U.S.) and a DNS issue (makes no sense whatsoever, name resolution is working fine).

Everything else seems to be hunky-dory connection-wise.


Their servers are really unreliable, and tend to have issues every month or so.

The Grey
Mar 2, 2004

I'm browsing through Goodreads this morning and came across this book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953652-land-of-the-free

547 out of 551 reviews are 5-stars. Seriously? If you are going to rig your reviews, can you do it a little less obviously?

Captain Mog
Jun 17, 2011

The Grey posted:

I'm browsing through Goodreads this morning and came across this book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953652-land-of-the-free

547 out of 551 reviews are 5-stars. Seriously? If you are going to rig your reviews, can you do it a little less obviously?

"Hey, Mom, Dad? Do you think you could tell your friends to rate my book five stars on Goodreads? Thanks, love you!"

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
I dunno, these are some supper compelling reviews:



Wungus
Mar 5, 2004

I wish I could easily come up with phrases like "At a talk is's really an awesome book that I ever read" or "I think , I'll again and again read this book" because that poo poo is hard to fake right.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
https://www.goodreads.com/bowmore

I need more goodreads buddies because my current ones don't update enough

Shlank
Feb 16, 2007
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8075949-lyndon I have added a bunch of you and apparently there is a limit to how many people you can add per day.

BenS
Nov 11, 2014
Looks like I have a lot of people to add when I get the chance! Glad to know that there's a fairly large contingent here.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4341978-benjamin-spurlock

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Here's mine. I'm not terribly active, I mainly just use goodreads as a way to keep track of what books I have read and want to read.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10213891-gustaf

Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Nov 25, 2014

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Wow are the giveaways on goodreads becoming worse and worse.

Florida Betty
Sep 24, 2004

They do have good Giveaways, but sometimes it's hard to find them above the noise of self-published erotic supernatural teen fic. I just got Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire, which is pretty good so far, though very depressing.

savinhill
Mar 28, 2010
Most of the Goodreads features and functions people talk about itt I've never come across and I've actually sought some of them out. Does Goodreads have a poo poo interface or am I just terrible at using the site?

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

savinhill posted:

Most of the Goodreads features and functions people talk about itt I've never come across and I've actually sought some of them out. Does Goodreads have a poo poo interface or am I just terrible at using the site?

It's a poo poo interface. It's all hidden behind the "explore" link at the top.

mycophobia
May 7, 2008
I like philosophy

Pixelated Dragon
Jan 22, 2007

Do you remember how we used to breathe and watch it
and feel such power and feel such joy, to be ice dragons and be so free. -Noe Venable

Historical Fiction is my crack, and I haven't noticed as much bandwagoning in Goodreads' HF circle as I have in, say, YA circles. I'm not sure if the age of the target audience has much to do with it. I know of a A LOT of adults, myself included, who enjoy YA.

Pixelated Dragon fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Mar 5, 2015

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

Goodreads wants you to read bad books.

Do you know how bad a book has to be for it's Goodreads review to dip below 3.6? Or even 3.4? Especially for a book with more than a thousand reviews on a site where the average reviewer won't give a book less than a 4 star review?

Mira
Nov 29, 2009

Max illegality.

What would be the point otherwise?


Wow, that is a really specious connection to Pi Day.

Moltke
May 13, 2009
Would love to see what others goons are reading for recommendations. I read all genres, but tend to read history, fantasy, and classic fiction the most.

https://www.goodreads.com/moltke

hope and vaseline
Feb 13, 2001

I just wanna say how awesome goodreads has been since adding all the people here. I'm never in a drought for books to read anymore and I've ventured out of my comfort zone a lot more.

8one6
May 20, 2012

When in doubt, err on the side of Awesome!

I do love seeing the variety of books everyone reads.

Also I'm sorry if one of my reviews has convinced anyone to read something that actually isn't that great. I was raised on a steady stream of Star Trek paperbacks so my perspective on what makes a good book is skewed a bit.

8one6 fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Apr 8, 2015

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
I have like 170 Goodreads friends now (not boasting) from here, Reddit and my blog, and it's great to log in and see an ever-updating feed of reviews and updates from people with mostly great taste.

I really wish Goodreads had a smart recommendation engine based on your friends list though. Something like "Show me books that at least 5 of my friends gave four or five stars".

Anyway here I am again in case anyone else wants to friend me: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1871737-tom — I read SF/F, horror, LGBT fiction, historical fiction & nonfiction, science books, and books about film making. Oh and this is what my shelves look like:

my shelves posted:

read ‎(219)
currently-reading ‎(19)
stalled ‎(27)

to-read ‎(233)
to-buy-soon ‎(155)
must-read-sf ‎(80)
must-read-fantasy-horror ‎(58)
must-read-nonfiction ‎(41)
must-read-collections ‎(27)
must-read-other-fiction ‎(23)

top-25-sf-novels ‎(23)
series-to-continue ‎(20)
absolute-favourites ‎(17)
dying-to-read-again ‎(17)

sci-fi ‎(86)
space-opera ‎(59)
fantasy ‎(59)
nonfiction ‎(38)
humour ‎(38)
queer ‎(29)
alien-characters ‎(28)
literature ‎(24)
young-adult ‎(23)
short-story-collections ‎(20)
biography-memoir ‎(20)
discworld ‎(19)
space-horror-and-dark-sf ‎(16)
horror ‎(15)
mystery ‎(13)
making-movies ‎(10)
biologist-protagonist ‎(9)
geeks-and-fandoms ‎(9)
spy-detective ‎(8)
science ‎(7)
essay-collections ‎(7)
ending-shocked-me ‎(7)
internet-did-it ‎(5)
classic-sf ‎(5)
graphic-novel ‎(5)
historical-fiction ‎(4)
short-story-anthologies ‎(4)
history-nonfic ‎(4)
popular-penguins ‎(3)
airships ‎(3)
alien-human-relations ‎(3)
omnibuses ‎(2)
ww2 ‎(2)
music ‎(1)

Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Apr 8, 2015

thehomemaster
Jul 16, 2014

by Ralp
Yeah, I've been checking out your shelves.

Your idea for a friend-cased recommendation is fine, but why not just begin a conversation with a book that someone has just finished reading?

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



Add me at https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MTYyNDg4MjE6NDA2

I read mostly Fantasy but I'll honestly read whatever I find interesting and someone gives to me.

Draynar
Apr 22, 2008
If you like Lovecraft please add me. I read horror, sci fi, fantasy.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4710037-joshua-palmer

jlechem
Nov 2, 2011

Fun Shoe
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41981389-justin-lecheminant

What the hell, I'm always looking for interesting books, mostly sci-fi, technical stuff, but I'm open to almost anything

Ryzic
Feb 28, 2009

No, actually. I would hate to have a cookie, you vapid waste of inedible flesh!
Grimey Drawer
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41945105-andy

I've been reading horrible genre fiction lately, but this thing seems fun, so what the hell.

hope and vaseline
Feb 13, 2001

Ugh, does anyone have a working Ublock filter for those sponsored books on your update feed? I guess wildcards aren't supported in the same way in hiding elements.

code:
###update_5886881 > .newsfeedAd.newsfeedUpdateHeader.newsfeedWorkUpdate6873353
Like how can I get it to block everything with newsfeedAd in it?

Nettle Soup
Jan 30, 2010

Oh, and Jones was there too.

Edit: Didn't work, sorry. Pretty sure it can be done with adblock though. Maybe:
www.goodreads.com##TD[class="newsfeedWorkUpdate* newsfeedUpdateHeader newsfeedAd"]
in your adblock custom filters.

Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Apr 28, 2015

hope and vaseline
Feb 13, 2001

I think I have it working, was actually simpler than I thought.

ABP
code:
goodreads.com#td(class*=newsfeedAd)
Ublock
code:
www.goodreads.com##.newsfeedAd

Aphra Bane
Oct 3, 2013

Oh cool so I'm not the only one feeling cheesed about the ads.

hope and vaseline posted:

ABP
code:
goodreads.com#td(class*=newsfeedAd)

That did the trick. Thanks!

Happyfacecrazy
Jul 30, 2010

Soft Kitty...
Warm Kitty...
Little Ball of Fur.
Happy Kitty...
Sleepy Kitty...
Purr, Purr, Purrr.
https://www.goodreads.com/heyimneise

Add me! I will accept everyone :)

Need to sort out my shelves, I created a lot of pointless ones when I first joined and they are beyond ridiculous!

I read anything that takes my interest, lots of different genres.

feverish and oversexed
Mar 9, 2007

I LOVE the galley!

Happyfacecrazy posted:

https://www.goodreads.com/heyimneise

Add me! I will accept everyone :)

Need to sort out my shelves, I created a lot of pointless ones when I first joined and they are beyond ridiculous!

I read anything that takes my interest, lots of different genres.

I just added a few people from this thread, and when I went to add you I wasn't paying attention... so the the request I sent you was "www.goodreads.com##.newsfeedAd" instead of the previous message I was copying and pasting to let people know I was a goon... just in case you're wondering what that's about! :)

Stick Insect
Oct 24, 2010

My enemies are many.

My equals are none.
Edit: I don't use Goodreads anymore

Stick Insect fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Nov 7, 2016

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?


Buglord
I can always use more Goodreads friends, I've found a lot of really interesting stuff through goons that I probably wouldn't have bothered with otherwise.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3110209-daveski

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



I made an account years ago and I'm just now getting around to using it so I can keep track of everything. I could use some goon friends to steal reading recommendations from:

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17666768-eric

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metavisual
Sep 6, 2007

I created an account and pretty much every one of my friends I looked up doesn't have an account. (I have illiterate friends maybe?)

Could use some friends and recommendations and stuff...

https://www.goodreads.com/Mike781

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