Goodreads Avis 191

It's nice to read reviews on it. But when you sign up the emails start: many emails. Then they make it complicated to unsubscribe from all those emails: a whole menu where you have to uncheck many boxes one by one. Finally, you have to verify by doing one of those "click on all the ...." tests to prove that you're not a robot. Not user friendly in this respect.

The corporate system has ruined the experience. Going to look for another app/company.

Ex. I read many books that are not in the website and have been adding quite a few. Now you need a librarian to do for you the job and add all the infos you have been adding since you started. And worst… the waiting time , 2 to 3 days. Enough time for me to read 3 books. The main reason why I was using this website was to keep track on a daily basic. Experience ruined. Bye Goodreads ✌🏾Ridiculous.

Goodreads cambia davvero la vita. Da quando l'ho installato leggo molto di più e molto meglio. La possibilità, oltretutto, di confrontarsi con lettori da tutto il mondo è straordinaria, un'esperienza formidabile che aumenta la voglia di leggere all'interno di una community come non se ne trova su nessun altro social.

Impossible to unsubscribe from newsletter. Has done it 3 times now and still receiving it...
NOT OKAY!

Thanks to this website, I've been able to properly organize my reading lists. I've used goodreads for years and they've always remained quite consistent.

Shady and unethical behavior to not allow authors to make changes or delete their own books on the platform. They are shady and unethical.

Damon, Liam and Aiden are more than happy to follow in their fathers foot steps and very proud to be firefighters. Damon Jackson lost his wife to cancer a few years back and his brothers worry about him constantly Ever since Carol passed Damon seems to be just going through the motions of living. Getting up, eat, work, home to an empty house that the high school sweethearts bought as a fixer upper and Carol threw her heart and soul into decorating and making it a true home. They decided to hold off on starting a family for a few years to save money. That way Carol could be a stay at home mom. But, fate played the ace of spades and took her way before her time. Now Damon just has his job to look forward to each day.
His parents were always into always being there for anyone, and everyone any time they were needed. It is just how their family worked. In fact his father gave his life saving a family and the boys know he never would have regretted it. Damon very much takes after his father. His thought is if he has to give his life to save another so be it.
As the fire engine pulls up to the complex that is fully engulfed in flames a little girl comes running out the door. Screaming for somebody to help her Mommy. Damon and Aiden finish getting quickly in their gear. Before he knows it Damon is running back to Aiden with the girl in his arms. He shouts at his brother to get her help and turns back to the fire. As he rushes into the complex he hears Aiden scream"the whole place is caving, in get back to the truck." Damon continues into the fire calling the women who is trapped there. "Let me know where you are. Bang on the walls. Let me hear where you are." He suddenly hears faint pounding down the hall. He rushes in and sees a women laying on the floor. All he can see is her sooty black form and piercing green eyes. Damon rushes in and scoops her into his arms. As he barely clears the door way the entire structure comes crashing down.
The people injured are taken to the hospital and Damon follows. He can't get those green eyes or the terrible site of the girl running out of the roaring fire out of his mind. He has to make sure they are okay. He had no time to check them over before they were loaded into the ambulance.
Fate has a strange way of placing people who are deeply hurt and hurting into the path of someone who needs to nurture and care for them. So begins a great story.
I received this free e-book in return for a review

I am an author who writes for pleasure and posterity. I’m not interested in writing the next best seller nor making money from writing. Having said that, my 3 travelogue books received good Amazon reviews.

I recently discovered that my toxic, soon to be ex brother in law had rated all 3 of my books 1 star on goodreads with no written review. He couldn’t write a review because he hasn’t read them. He ticked the box ‘to read’. He rated them all on the same day at the same time and hasn’t rated any other books.

Sooooo obviously malicious ratings.

I contacted Goodreads, pointed this out and asked them to remove the ratings. After a series of to and fro emails, they refused as they said the ratings didn’t break their rules. In other words, their rules allow people who admit to not having read a book, to rate it.

I got nowhere with their customer care (oxymoron) team, so wrote to their CEO. No response.

What makes this debacle worse is that Amazon (their parent company) can randomly remove ratings if they ‘believe’ they were written by a friend or relative (even if they are genuine reviews) - BUT - they only apply this to positive ratings. Ie they think if you know someone they may give you overly positive / inflated ratings, yet when my brother in law (we both dislike each intensely) gave his malicious ratings of books he hadn’t read, they are allowed to remain.

Furthermore, I am not allowed to remove my books from Goodreads.

Goodreads demonstrated in spades that they have no integrity nor care a dot for authors - and seem to forget that if it wasn’t for authors - they wouldn’t exist. Shame on you Goodreads. Shame.

I paid $120 to list my new book on Goodreads, hoping to get reviews. And I did a 100 e-book giveaway to jumpstart the reviews. 460 readers entered the drawing for the 100 e-book giveaway. In the end, four-readers read the book. Many who entered the drawing had thousands of unread books on their to-read list. Well… that’s my last listing on Goodreads!

The Warsaw Orphan

This book was by no means an easy read but the author kept you invested in the characters flaws and all. I couldn’t put it down it brought me to tears, made me laugh and smile but also shocked me to the realization of how cruel man can be to one another! A must read!!

This is a brilliantly crafted and beautifully layered memoire of young, adventurous travel and youthful romantic love in the mid 1980’s. It is much more than a straight forward narrative of the experience of travelling through some of the most remote areas of Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia at that time. It is a multi faceted chronicle - both in style and content - lending it an extraordinary degree of depth and scope. A gripping tale of rough travel, with the reader being richly entertained by means of a fascinating series of brilliantly narrated digressions - a veritable feast of tangential jewels of knowledge acquisition along the way. Moreover, the author manages the narration of the story effortlessly and seamlessly through a telescopic frame of reference, ranging from private matters - through to social and cultural issues - to national and global issues and events. A compelling tale, and a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience, providing valuable insights into the problems and pitfalls of youthful rough travel- as well as it’s inherent thrills and excitement in the era before the Internet.

Strange trips and weird adventures is a great book to read very interesting my 9 year old granddaughter enjoyed reading it with me well done to the author

If this web-site is meant to help readers find books which may be of interest to them it fails miserably.

There is a paucity of categories in which you can express an interest for one thing. For instance You can say 'History' but not which period or area and Goodreads seems to think history begins and ends with the Second World War.

Books also end-up appearing in multiple categorises — the same ones show-up in History, Non-Fiction and Biography for instance.

A lot of the recommendations seem to be American as well. That isn't necessarily a bad thing but I'm more interested in my own country.

It's other function is as a place to leave and read reviews but these are obviously only as useful as somebody's opinion.

No he podido dejar de usarla
desde hace 5 años que empecé a registrar los libros que leo, que compro (normalmente más que lo anterior) y batir mi record de lecturas anual.
Me es muy útil revisar las calificaciones de los otros lectores, especialmente cuando quiero empezar con algún autor nuevo y probar con su obra más valorada. Gracias por mantenerla gratuita!

No monitoring, no support, and privacy violations on behalf of Goodreads staff when they do respond and decide to publish a private complaint in their forum that still includes identifiers (emails, names, etc). This is a violation of GDPR and California's Privacy law.

Really like this web site and all info that is listed on it, brilliantly layered and organised.
The most up to date and informative web site that I know of.
I really like that people are allowed to add books to their shelves and are able to 'name' those shelves anything they like.
Helping other people to look for books they might like because they can search for them.

They really want to know what you think before making updates.
Although, I think that the only update required is fixing something called "This page took too long to load..."

Great customer service.

As for the web site it is one of the best pearls in the ocean.

I purchased a book based upon glowing reviews. The book was utter tripe. I couldn’t understand all the glowing reviews. I wrote an honest review and it appears to have disappeared. Now I can see what’s what. Little wonder all the reviews are 5 stars. I did a little more digging, all the 5 star reviews received a free copy of the book or were friends with the author (easily investigated as Goodreads has visible friends lists).

It made me realise, I rarely find a book with low ratings on Goodreads. If the site is to believed we’re a planet of fantastic authors. All churning out Huckleberry Finn every weeknight and a couple of Citizen Kanes on the weekend to boot.

A pointless site seemingly set up to just be circular back pats between authors, their friends and people getting free books for “honest” reviews.

The Third Grace, by Deb Elkink
This is an amazing story and will take you from a primitive farm to the big city, and across the ocean, all from your easy chair. Deb's detailed story-writing brings the reader right on location with her extensive knowledge of what she's writing about and her descriptive prose. Whether it is scenery, customs, or foods, she nails it so well. The story encompasses many of today's twists and turns and subject matter. You don't want to miss this re-launch!

Great books catalog website. One of the biggest on the web.

Helpful to find my next read. Well organised site.

Negatives: There are often duplicates of books, particularly for kindle vs paper/hardback which is frustrating - ideally there would just be one book - the content is identical in the majority of cases. The site is international, therefore naturally tends to have a North American bias, due to the larger English speaking population representation i.e as someone from Britain, I struggle to find the best British reads, or topselling in the UK.