Have to admit

I hate rating books on a scale of one to five. Pretty much every book I read is a five, otherwise I would have put it down and not finished it. But then some weird social pressure or some such dumb thing insists that I lower my opinion from time to time, and I stupidly adhere to it once in a while, giving five-star books (in my opinion) three and four stars, never finding any good reason for ranking the book lower than the five stars I most always feels it has earned. I may put some dumbass reason for why I gave it three or four stars, but chances are I honestly felt it was a five-star book. That's just me, though. As I said, if I don't feel it's worth my time, I'll put it down. I'm not one of those stubborn fools who insists on reading every book they start. I'll gladly set it aside, though sometimes it's just timing and I'll pick it up later and find why I then want to give it five stars. I'm babbling, but hadn't posted a blog in a while.

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Published on September 15, 2014 22:38
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message 1: by Richard (new)

Richard I feel the same way! I rarely give bad ratings, because if I didn't like it that much, I would probably just abandon it!


message 2: by E.R. (new)

E.R. Dover I'm the same. If I don't feel a book or a piece of music deserves five stars, I'm likely to not finish reading or to turn off the player. But sometimes, I may be found to elevate a book or musical piece into a sort of immortal status - but that's because I end up obsessed with the story or the music and read and reread and constantly listen to the music, over and over again. That happened to me with Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny... and Butterfly Potion. To me, these books are classics. It's my personal and humble opinion. I'm also that way with Exottica by Troy Stetina and Passion and Warfare by Steve Vai. I can be a bit neurotic at times.


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