Monday, June 28, 2010
Since I am a dork and I catalogue, track and rate every book I read but tend not to write reviews, I have added a books page that pulls data from my LibraryThing account and shows what I am currently reading as well as the last 10 books I've read what I rated them as.
In reviewing my catalogue which has data since 1998, it appears as though I hand out 3.5 and 4 stars freely and tend to hold back on 5's, 2's and 1's. Examples of my ratings, because I know you care:
5 - The Stand, Stephen King (apparently the only book I have given a 5 to)
4.5 - Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole -The Passage, Justin Cronin -Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer -Crosscut, Meg Gardiner
4 - Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde -Dante Valentine series, Lilith Saintcrow -Harper Connelly series, Charlaine Harris -Kitty Norville series, Carrie Vaughan -Elvis Cole series, Robert Crais -Jack Reacher series, Lee Child, -a whole lotta Stephen King books
3.5 - In Death series, J.D. Robb -Heartsick, Chelsea Cain -JPod, Douglas Coupland -a bunch of Sookie Stackhouse books, Charlaine Harris -most of Richard Laymon's horror novels
3 - Generation Dead, Daniel Waters -Under the Dome, Stephen King -Velocity, Dean Koontz -Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith
2.5 - Jimi Hendrix Turns 80, Tim Sandlin -Ash Wednesday, Ethan Hawke
2 - The Ruins, Scott Smith -Shopgirl, Steve Martin -The Beach, Alex Garland -The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris
1.5 - Hannibal, Thomas Harris -Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
1 - Danse Macabre, Laurell K. Hamilton -Ticktock, Dean Koontz
I notice now that though I've read many classic novels and enjoyed some of them, I've never rated any of them. I also notice that I obviously rate with my gut and not with any specific criteria held in mind, since I finish a book and rate it before moving on to the next book. So there, on the day I finished Eclipse I felt it was a 4.5, The Ruins seemed like a 2 and on the day I finished Laurell Hamilton's Danse Macabre it felt like a 1, which means it must have pissed me off.
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I loved the first three Lilith Saintcrow books - then I hated them. I now sort of rate her with Tanya Huff who I really liked and now I'm a bit annoyed with. I was really disappointed with the Lilith Saintcrow novels later on. What keeps you reading them?
I'm 2/3 through the 4th Dante book, so far I'm not pissed off. Unlike Keri Arthur, fearing that her most recent 2 will be painfully bad I have put off purchasing them, but I have them flagged on my ebook list, and they are cheap...if I get desperate enough it could happen.
That's what happens when you don't re-read books - I'm more likely than you to get pissed off that I paid for a crappy book. I keep telling myself one year I will make it a resolution to only re-read books I already own and not spend any money on books, but then I see the Stephen King or Lee Child will be releasing a a book and I know that there's no way I'm waiting a year for them.
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