Stylo Fantome's Blog - Posts Tagged "confused"
Please, Explain To Me ...
So there's something I don't get. Not good, not bad, I just genuinely don't understand the thought process behind it.
Why keep reading books you don't like?
Once again, I will keep it real with y'all - I was not a fan of This Man. I KNOW I am in a minority. That doesn't make it a bad book in any way, shape, or form. I personally did not care for the story, nothing against Ms. Malpas' writing abilities or anything like that, clearly she is a very good writer and has done very well for herself.
Since I didn't care for it, and I had looked up reviews for the next books to get a feel, I decided against reading them. Again, PERSONAL CHOICE, this doesn't say ANYTHING about the books themselves. But since I didn't particularly like the first book, why would I waste time, money, and energy on books two and three?
Por qoi, people, por qoi?
And even then, even if I decided "what the hell, I need to see how the story ends", cause I can understand the want to know how something ends, I would recognize that it was MY CHOICE, I knowingly went into a book that I was 90% sure I wouldn't like, and thus wouldn't rate it if it turned out my hunches were true.
I have discovered that quite a few people don't operate this way, and it confuses me.
I have seen it with my books, and with lots of other books. People post scathing reviews about how boring they found a book, or how much they detested them, AND THEN go on to add the other books to their TBRs and rate and review them poorly. It's literally saying "hey, I didn't like this at all, so y'know what? I'm gonna read more!"
Sounds like going to the dentist and then scheduling an appointment for the next day, just so you could double check that it's still an unpleasant experience.
QOI? Do people feel it is their duty to warn others away from a book?
Sorry if this offends anybody, but I'm just ..., confused, I guess. I see someone rate a book with a 1-star, then immediately start reading book two, and give it a 1-star, as well. I almost wanna ask "are you mad at the book and author, so you just want to give them both bad ratings?"
It turns me into a baby, a complete eight-year-old, "but that's not fair, YOU KNOW you're not going to like it!" I would never do that to a book or an author.
And to be quite frank, I don't have the time for it.
Why keep reading books you don't like?
Once again, I will keep it real with y'all - I was not a fan of This Man. I KNOW I am in a minority. That doesn't make it a bad book in any way, shape, or form. I personally did not care for the story, nothing against Ms. Malpas' writing abilities or anything like that, clearly she is a very good writer and has done very well for herself.
Since I didn't care for it, and I had looked up reviews for the next books to get a feel, I decided against reading them. Again, PERSONAL CHOICE, this doesn't say ANYTHING about the books themselves. But since I didn't particularly like the first book, why would I waste time, money, and energy on books two and three?
Por qoi, people, por qoi?
And even then, even if I decided "what the hell, I need to see how the story ends", cause I can understand the want to know how something ends, I would recognize that it was MY CHOICE, I knowingly went into a book that I was 90% sure I wouldn't like, and thus wouldn't rate it if it turned out my hunches were true.
I have discovered that quite a few people don't operate this way, and it confuses me.
I have seen it with my books, and with lots of other books. People post scathing reviews about how boring they found a book, or how much they detested them, AND THEN go on to add the other books to their TBRs and rate and review them poorly. It's literally saying "hey, I didn't like this at all, so y'know what? I'm gonna read more!"
Sounds like going to the dentist and then scheduling an appointment for the next day, just so you could double check that it's still an unpleasant experience.
QOI? Do people feel it is their duty to warn others away from a book?
Sorry if this offends anybody, but I'm just ..., confused, I guess. I see someone rate a book with a 1-star, then immediately start reading book two, and give it a 1-star, as well. I almost wanna ask "are you mad at the book and author, so you just want to give them both bad ratings?"
It turns me into a baby, a complete eight-year-old, "but that's not fair, YOU KNOW you're not going to like it!" I would never do that to a book or an author.
And to be quite frank, I don't have the time for it.
