What I Think About Reviews

I joined Goodreads and started fixing up my profile and what not a few weeks back.  This includes rating books I'd read.

I was faced with pages and pages of books.  I have read all sorts of books from all sorts of genres in the past.  I marked the ones I read and gave them five stars if I didn't remember actually hating the book.  Authors I know, I gave five stars for good karma. One can argue that injudicious five star ratings makes ratings meaningless, but ratings have meaning only for the r...