Fadeout by Joseph Hansen

[Dan, Hardboiled]

It's fairly short, but oh so easy to put down.

[[deleted user]]

Wow, Dan, you and Bradley are brothers I take it?

Let's abandon subtly and mutual respect and go straight for the sneering disdain?

It's a good book and the character is much appreciated by a lot of readers. You just didn't like it was all. Let's treat it with a modicum of respect?

This is a reading discussion, not an assassination.

[Dan, Hardboiled]

Actually, I did like it. Goodreads defines three stars as liking the book. As for the rest, I'm confident Carmen knew I was not serious.

[[deleted user]]

I always consider 3 stars as it was readable but. But thinking about it, 3 stars sits in the middle.

[Dan, Hardboiled]

Many people use their own rating system rather than Goodreads guidelines. I am not one of them. Therefore, in precise alignment with GR, 1 star is didn't like it, 2 stars is it was okay, 3 stars is liked it, 4 stars is really liked it, and 5 stars is it was amazing. The advantage for me in using GR guidelines is that I maintain consistency in my ratings better over all my ratings. I am in alignment with other readers using the same standards, and I avoid evaluation inflation, a problem in all evaluation systems. My average rating for a work--GR calculates this--is 3.29.

[[deleted user]]

Mines is 3.52 so we aint to far apart.

[Carmen]

I'm about 35% in - finding it quite decent so far! : D