[ SECRET POST #6980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6980 ⌋

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Transcript by OP

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I pretty much never read reviews before reading a book. I only like to read them after finishing the book to see what other people thought. Sometimes they make me see the book in a different light or highlight things I didn't notice on my way through so it's nice. But I have zero interest in discussing or debating those thoughts with randos, only in browsing people's reactions, taking in the interesting bits, and discarding the rest.

I do most of fandom the same way.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have anything against reading book reviews, but I don't have a trusted source. Maybe word of mouth from friends, whose tastes I know are similar to mine but that's not exactly official. Other than that, I'm with you, OP... just give me a decent plot summary and I'll decide whether or not I want to read it.

[(Anonymous)]

I like to read reviews for finding unknown books, but books I'm looking forward to or found on my own and read I don't bother with reviews. The exception being if I absolutely loathed a book that seems universally loved and need someone out there to validate my hate so I don't feel so alone or crazy.

But as far as fandom, yeah I lurk there. Lurkers unite!

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I usually find it interesting to read other peoples thoughts after I’ve read something, even if I don’t agree with them, because I like seeing a range of opinions. But I never use other people as a metric of whether or not I’m going to like something, and this isn’t just for books, I do this for everything. If it seems interesting to me I’ll give it a shot, if it doesn’t I wont no matter how many positive reviews it has.

[(Anonymous)]

I was always under the impression that people say that out of jealousy. They're jealous of seeing a celebrity mourned, because deep down, nobody will mourn them when they pass away.

[(Anonymous)]

If I like the sound of something, I read it, if I don't, I don't.
I don't see the point of reading reviews until I finish either, because why would I care about the opinion of some random person when I haven't even experienced the text for myself?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I also prefer to look at reviews after reading a book, unless I'm specifically looking up trigger warnings (I do not have many-- while there are some things I might skim past if I see there's gory details surrounding specific types of injury or the like, there's really only one thing that can fully ruin my day/set off an OCD intrusive thought spiral, and I had the bad luck to have that thing crop up in THREE books this year (one was a collection of novellas where I was able to just not read the one that would bother me, one was short stories where there just wasn't a trigger warning available, and one was on me for not checking, but it was a short book that was so much about a different horrible thing that it never occurred to me that my one trigger would slip in there)).

My other guilty pleasure is, when I KNOW a book is not for me because it does something that isn't triggering to me but that I think is deeply stupid, I will go and look at bad reviews for it. I don't engage, I just like knowing someone else thought that thing was dumb, too.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like a healthy way to do books and fandom.