Jasmine’s Comments (group member since Nov 21, 2010)

Jasmine’s comments from the The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) group.

I thought you had the flu?

karen wrote: "i sell books and break fridges."

what happened to your fridge?

hi caris wife. I bet you are as awesome as he is. congratulations on your awesomeness!!

interesting.

did you see the new notes box? it's cool only you can see it. it might be old and I just didn't know about it. I am using to remember short stories I like in a book.

yeah I like status updates on my own books for myself, I look at other peoples for long book, and comment on recent ones a good amount I think. I like the process of reading

That sounds pretty badass. I'd imagine a lot less people are researching male body image than female..or am I wrong?

you are right, and it is a pain in the ass, and I want to bag out and only do nonverbal because I get a lot of crap on the whole not having a penis front, but I'm trying to hang in there as long as possible.

if there was an image the coolness would burn out the eyes of the uninitiated.

I think some of the really important parts of the site aren't the reviews.

I mean I didn't read william gaddis because greg reviewed it. His review got it on my radar and then several times after he read it, it came up in comments on books. Zweig and Wallace both happened the same way. When I decided I didn't like those books(gaddis, zweig, and magic mountain too actually) in comments I talked to people about whether anything was "coming up" that was going to change my mind or if it was a good idea to stop and let the book die by the side of the road. Not to mention (like what just happened on an mj nicholls review) where in comments you get into discussions about trends in literature and leave a review with 4 books to check out instead of one. I mean I'm spacing the book I was looking at a review of but I ended up deciding to buy a different book he brought up in the comments.

and I love the progress stuff. Last night when I was getting frustrated and wanted to quit a book, that I'm not pointing fingers at right now, I went back to look at someone's old status updates to see when they had started liking it because I knew that they had problems. That helped me judge if I wanted to keep going.

yeah I was agreeing with you, but I think you make a good point in that none of us are actually trying to sell the book in most cases. I mean when I reviewed caris' book I actively thought "what do I write to get people to buy this." whereas normally if I wanted to get karen or courtney to read something I'd just tell them to not try to convince them with a book review.

I also think that I suck at that balance, I'm just not that dedicated to writing amazing reviews. whereas you and greg tend to write extremely impressive reviews.

that's okay pretend to be greg and she will give you all her ideas.

one of my friends whose is only nominally on goodreads was harassing me about that. I think the personal stuff is totally relevant to most books, a good book connects to something in yourself and you talk about that.

also as I have said elsewhere, I don't really like book reviews that summarize books, I mean back covers already do that, as do professional reviews, I don't care what a book is about before I read it, I care if the experience of reading it is pleasant (except for the condition that I don't read books with dragons in them).

As far as my reviews, they evolved from "Why are you reading my review when you should be reading the book" to personal stuff, except on books I hated, where even in an old review about foucault my rant starts talking about philosophers I personally prefer and not really pointing out the content issues I had with the book.

this is such an awesome positive thread that now has lots of people I don't know well in it. So really, I'm in graduate school for psychology, I do research on body image (nonverbal and male mostly) and I work for the #1 goodreads reviewer!!! Well I don't work for her, but I do things when she tells me to.

yay. I read a really cool overview of what actually constitutes literary fiction from one of karen's textbooks on amazon read inside. I am jealous of you!

Steve wrote: "I am an author of fictional type things with 2 novellas recently published (doesn't pay for shit just yet)"

but yay for that anyway.

i can share beer, but I hope lager is okay I don't drink anything else.

I play rockband and watch the same episodes of bones and lie to me over and over again, I also spend a lot of time feeling guilty about liking things that are "bad" and disliking things that are "classic and amazing".

I got inpatient waiting for you to confirm that I was extra cool.

I am excited about your project too. What is it?

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