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sleepiestgf t1_jdczn84 wrote

i use storygraph which allows .25, .5, and .75 as well, but for simplicity i'll stick mostly with whole numbers:

5 - one of my favorites of all time. the last time i read something that reached this was fall 2021

4 - very good book, either is just incredibly well written or would recommend to anyone

3 - good book, happy to recommend to some

2.5 - total middle of the road, as would be implied by it's position in the middle of the scale. books here are okay. i liked or appreciated everything above this and did not like anything below

2 - bad book that maybe had some good elements, could have been good if executed better

1 - really bad (this would be where dnfs go)

< 1 - dogshit, i could talk about how much i hate it for hours. i finish these out of morbid curiosity (coincidentally, the last time i read one down here was also fall 2021, a week or so after reading the 5 star one lol)

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kelppforrest t1_jdfl0tr wrote

Interesting how many people I see put all their DNFs in 1. Ever since starting goodreads, I've DNF'd two books and one of them had a lot of good qualities, I just couldn't bear to go through its flaws any longer. I can't imagine giving that a 1 star.

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sleepiestgf t1_jdflmm2 wrote

you make a good point. i dnf'd alseep in a sea of stars last year. it wasn't bad it was just so long and so cliche that i couldn't handle 400 more pages of it.

honestly i don't feel super good about giving a dnf a rating at all in a way. beyond what it being a dnf implies. i didn't read the whole thing, after all

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