OOh thanks for taking the time to show me what’s on the other side of the signup wall. I’ll make an account as this just sounds nicer than LibraryThing, which is def for those book owners and library collectors out there. Way too power user for me.
Yeah this is a bit disappointing to me too. Book reviews and criticism seem to have adapted to the post-box format of blog or social media sites in the most whiny and unfocused way. Most reviews you see on those places feel like people ranting even when they are ambivalent or in love with the work. It’s like they have no sense of audience and so they don’t care to communicate anything really. For some philosophy books and non-fiction I have found this is a little bit different, but basically all fiction user reviews suck. There’s that popular format on goodreads where people break up really long and terribly written sentences with cringey office gifs, which no doubt evolved from tumblr.