MobileRead Book Challenges discussion

Here is the list of what I have read so far in 2012.


001. Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles #8) by Tess Gerritsen
002. The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club #8) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
003. Leviathan (Leviathan #1) by Scott Westerfeld
004. Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport #1) by John Sandford
005. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos #2) by Dan Simmons
006. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
007. Imitation In Death (In Death #17) by J.D. Robb
008. Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows #3) by Kim Harrison
009. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3) by Stieg Larsson
010. The Rings of Time (Star Trek: The Original Series) by Greg Cox
011. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
012. The Struggle Within by Christopher L. Bennett

What did you think of Ready Player One?

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "What did you think of Ready Player One?"
If you've lived through the 80s and want want a flashback to the 80s, go for it. It was very good. I lived through the 80s and I remember what's being talked about/mentioned. I gave it 5 stars.

That's what I've heard. I'm an 80s child, I hit highschool in '83 and started university before the 80s were done. It's on my potential reads, but I'm always looking for reasons to get things into the read really soon pile.

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "That's what I've heard. I'm an 80s child, I hit highschool in '83 and started university before the 80s were done. It's on my potential reads, but I'm always looking for reasons to get things into ..."

Here's a review from one of my favorite reviewers of it: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

I have Ready Player One on my TBR pile as well. Thanks for the recommendation and the review link from MrsJ.

I'm a child of the 80s so I'm thinking I'll have fun with this one.

MrsJoseph wrote: "Homeinmyshoes wrote: "That's what I've heard. I'm an 80s child, I hit highschool in '83 and started university before the 80s were done. It's on my potential reads, but I'm always looking for reaso..."

The reviewer made a very poor mistake. If he thinks the book is that good, then it's not 4 to 4.5 stars. It's 5 stars. Just wrong to not give it 5 stars with a review like that.

JSWolf wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Homeinmyshoes wrote: "That's what I've heard. I'm an 80s child, I hit highschool in '83 and started university before the 80s were done. It's on my potential reads, but I'm always..."

Well, if you follow his reviews you'd see his 5 star books. *kisses air* so delicious!

It's a matter of prospective.

Rating based on a five-value Likert scale is pretty much useless. Add in that four of the five are actually reasonably positive and it's skewed as well. On MobileRead I use a 9-point scale because not every 4/5 star book is the same. 9 is outstanding 7 and 8 are varying scales of very good, 5 and 6 are varying scales of readable and worthwhile 3 and 4 are relative poor books and 1 and 2 are for varying scales of atrocities to mankind.

Homeinmyshoes wrote: "Rating based on a five-value Likert scale is pretty much useless. Add in that four of the five are actually reasonably positive and it's skewed as well. On MobileRead I use a 9-point scale because ..."

I soooo agree! I would love to rate on a 10 point scale here. Or at least have 1/2 stars and a bomb...for books that should be detonated before they are allowed to traumatize others.

a 10-star scale would be give us a more realistic rating. That would be very nice.

JSWolf wrote: "a 10-star scale would be give us a more realistic rating. That would be very nice."

I agree.

Unfortunately, for every worthless piece of crap there's an abundance of 5 star reviews. :|

Then you have people like me, who are not above giving a book 4 stars for unintentional hilarity. :D Guess that makes me one of those that people complain about in the GR Group - "People don't use ratings PROPERLY! It messes up the SYSTEM! It's not RIGHT!"

Christa - I will now start calling you the proverbial fly in the ointment. I guess the modern version is a black fly in my chardonnay.

Ah Alanis - you'll reform the English language yet.

Thankyou India.

I just finished reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The ending kinda was a bit abrupt. But overall, not bad. I'm giving it 3 stars.

Caleb wrote: "Christa - I will now start calling you the proverbial fly in the ointment. I guess the modern version is a black fly in my chardonnay.

Ah Alanis - you'll reform the English language yet.

Than..."

:-D

JSWolf wrote: "I just finished reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The ending kinda was a bit abrupt. But overall, not bad. I'm gi..."

I put this on hold at the library last night after a friend mentioned it.