francisf0reverr OP t1_ixwr9cq wrote on November 26, 2022 at 11:57 PM

Reply to comment by LordBlam in I don't like The Great Gatsby by francisf0reverr

Yeah I can see that. I didn't like 1984 when we studied it last year but actually goodreads got me to think about it and I rated it 5 stars. I have loved a lot of the plays I have studied though. Othello is so interesting and I got such a good question for my exam last year for the Crucible (it was about the disturbing nature of Abigail and Proctor's relationship- don't even get me started!!). Goodreads is not the most reliable lol I think all of the colleen hoover books are rated higher than Othello 😭

LordBlam t1_ixwrxph wrote on November 27, 2022 at 12:02 AM

Yeah, I’m not suggesting that Goodreads ratings are an example of the best way to encapsulate a book’s worth, but it as good a way as any to glimpse a simple thumb up/down opinion for a broad cross-section of the population. It’s easy to see on Goodreads that there’s a lot of punitive downvoting that goes on with assigned classics. You seldom see this with regular “popular” books.