Goodreads book quiz
I can now understand a little better the wave of shame and self-loathing that washes over serial gamblers who cannot stop placing ‘just one more bet’. My weakness? Goodreads’ infernal never-ending book quiz.
There is one particular fly in my literary ointment: retards, and there is no other word for them, who post dozens, and I mean dozens, of questions on the same book. Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, even Ulysses- these books might merit a few more questions than average perhaps but what do these IDIOTS choose to idolize? Books like John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest. Now, I quite understand the urge to share your reading enthusiasms (that’s one of the main points of Goodreads) but to just post banks and banks of questions on one book has two unfortunate results. Firstly, I am never going to read that book now. I might have before this misguided attempt at evangelical enthusiasm but not now. And secondly, it leads to my use of capitalization- a blight from which this blog has been free up to now. So please, STOP THIS NOW. Take the time that you are wasting, I mean spending, in formulating these endless and pointless questions and use that to GO AND READ SOME OTHER BOOKS.
The thing is, they wear me down these banks of questions like a particularly persistent timeshare salesman until I crack, thinking, for a stupidly phrased 50-50 question, oh I might as well have a go and BINGO- the red bar of shame appears. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
There is one particular fly in my literary ointment: retards, and there is no other word for them, who post dozens, and I mean dozens, of questions on the same book. Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, even Ulysses- these books might merit a few more questions than average perhaps but what do these IDIOTS choose to idolize? Books like John Updike’s Rabbit at Rest. Now, I quite understand the urge to share your reading enthusiasms (that’s one of the main points of Goodreads) but to just post banks and banks of questions on one book has two unfortunate results. Firstly, I am never going to read that book now. I might have before this misguided attempt at evangelical enthusiasm but not now. And secondly, it leads to my use of capitalization- a blight from which this blog has been free up to now. So please, STOP THIS NOW. Take the time that you are wasting, I mean spending, in formulating these endless and pointless questions and use that to GO AND READ SOME OTHER BOOKS.
The thing is, they wear me down these banks of questions like a particularly persistent timeshare salesman until I crack, thinking, for a stupidly phrased 50-50 question, oh I might as well have a go and BINGO- the red bar of shame appears. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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