Submitted by Trip_on_SHIT t3_yvepgi in books
Ok first off I wanna apologize for this incoherent rant, I've just stayed up all night readings cause I'm currently sick and bored to death.
For years I've been basing the books I read off of the rating, which was dumb to begin with. Reviews are so much better, honestly.
Anyway so this whole thing started with Colleen Hoover. Not sure if she has any stans here but idk, fuck her books man. Everyone was raving about November 9, and I was like okay I'll give it a shot. Had to buy my own damn copy and read it twice. God was it bad. I was curious to see what it had on goodreads, as I was expecting it to have at least lower than a 4. Nope, I was so damn wrong. This dog water novel has a 4.27, like what the actual hell.
Anyway I needed to cleanse my brain after reading that and was craving some classics, so I decided to pick up We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson. And damn did I love this. Anyway I wanted to know what it had on goodreads, and guess what, it has a 3.96. So basically people think November 9 is BETTER than Shirley Jackson's work, one of the best horror authors???
God I hate goodreads. Also I've seen that shitty romances and fantasy get rated so high while really good horror gets horrible ratings.
Btw I'm not dissing on anyone who likes Hoover, romance, or fantasy, I just think its bs that people dog on horror so much.
Edit: oh god I did NOT expect this to blow up, I thought I'd get max 15 comments or so. Well, I'll get to reading the comments.