The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on) discussion

I've been wanting to do this, but I'm too overwhelmed by the prospect of trying to pick reviews. Just trying to decide my favorite review by Aerin sounds very difficult..or Ceridwen, Elizabeth, Brian, a dozen others. Then, choosing from THOSE would be even harder. Ugh. I may try it sometime, but I'm not ready yet.

I wish I did. I just keep track of the drunk book reviews. I do it for science.

I just picked up the idea today. I will definitely be starting one.

I never thought of it beyond giving a book 5 stars. You mean books beyond that, I guess. No, I don't think so. The list would never be right. It would change by mood.

I don't. it never occurred to me.

i don't. but now that i think about it, i'd like to. i've read some amazing reviews in which the writing is superior to many of the books that i actually read and review. alas, those shining reviews are probably gone from my life forever!

I have been thinking about starting one. I LOVE the drunk one list. Makes me wanna get on it.

Let me know if you do. I'm sure there's lots of them out there that I don't know about.

I've started to after being inspired by A Novel Bookstore

it's favorite reviews all the links go to reviews of the book written by the person specified.

I've never even thought of doing that. I didn't know other people did it. I would love to be on somebody's hall of fame list, though.

I just made my own hall of fame.

Does anyone do a "Hall of Shame"?

(Should this question be a separate topic, oh Powers That Be? If so, let me know & I'll delete the question. Is there already such a topic & I just missed it?)

And the clouds parted, and the powers that be spake unto the lesser mortals....

Either way. I think the list of people who have started one already will be small enough that we could talk about both here. I like the idea of a "Hall of Shame," although I personally am not mean enough to make one.

I have considered making a hall of fame for reviews irresistible to trolls.

There's one Mockingjay review I want to punch in the face, because it was without spoiler warnings, and spoiled many things for me in TOWERING ALLCAPS. (The spoiler box has since been hit.) But. I am not giving that thing any more traffic. No advertising.

Ah, I was thinking of a Hall of Shame for reviews here on GR. My one-starrers are already the Hall of Shame for the books I read.

Mariel wrote: "I have considered making a hall of fame for reviews irresistible to trolls."

That would be an interesting list. I can think of several reviews I love that trolls cannot seem to stay away from.

Hint: Review GRRM badly. And middle-brow women's fiction.

I hadn't thought about a Hall of Fame or Shame for reviews until I saw the idea here. I was thinking more in the context of books. I've always used the star system for both. If I give a book one star it sucks big time, 5 stars is fantastic even on a re-read. Most books are in the middle, of course.

There have been a few times when I've wanted to award negative stars, though. My dilemma is that I've heard any publicity is good & I really don't want to do anything good for those books or their authors. Obscurity seems too much to hope for since several of the books I'm thinking of are by very popular authors, so I'm not sure if a Shame list would help or hurt either way.

I've made my Troll bait list here. Please feel free to contribute any that I've left off. I'm not that well tapped into the goodreads pipeline.

Ceridwen wrote: "Hint: Review GRRM badly."

Now she tells me . . .

Reviewing The Bible was also probably not the most productive idea.

Keely wrote: "Ceridwen wrote: "Hint: Review GRRM badly."

Now she tells me . . ."

Holy Cheezits. That last troll was a "friend" of mine, before I saw that piece of work. You need to block that guy. He seems to be trolling his way through your reviews, or at least from what I can tell from his feed.

I thought your review of the Bible was great, Keely. Apparently quite a few others did too. Much better than mine.

that's quite a thread that follows your Bible review,Keely... I have to say, I admire your patience, fortitude and clear-thinking there.

Ceridwen wrote: "You need to block that guy. He seems to be trolling his way through your reviews"

I've thought about it. I guess I consider it a personal challenge to try to hone my rhetoric on rough stones like him, if they don't respond to reason.

Unfortunately, he lost his steam a while ago and hasn't proven much of a mark since. If he's anything like the others, he'll be deleting his comments (or profile) in an insecure rage sooner or later.

And thanks Jim and Jessica. I certainly don't always feel patient or clear-headed, but maybe I'm doing alright.

Mariel, I actually get worse trolls on my Clockwork Angel review if you can believe that! But I'm glad to see that someone appreciates the things I go through to get trolls!

Ceridewen, I used to like it when trolls were persistent. At least then I felt like they were actually trying, ya know? They just don't troll like they used to.

These young trolls think that all you need to do is post a stupid, hate-filled comment once and you've trolled someone.

If they knew the true meaning of trolling...

Anyway, I don't keep a hall of fame for reviews. I'm far too lazy for that!

I will update it, Kat. Thanks!

Hall of fames are easy. Just put in my profile. I'm kidding!

You don't have to update! I was being silly! Nooooooooooooo!

"Troll bait list . . ."

Oh, how could I forget that someone made a profile for Harold Bloom and posted his Harry Potter review on GR.

I hope it's really him, because that's just ridiculous. The whole thread is angry people who have no idea that he is 'the premiere literary critic of the 20th century'. Talk about hard trolling.

this is the kind of thing a bookmark folder is for, people. we have the technology lol

Elizabeth wrote: "Nick wrote: "this is the kind of thing a bookmark folder is for, people. we have the technology lol"

Nick, you're assuming that everyone uses only only one browser on only one computer. The app sh..."

bookmark synchronization across one's machines is technology of a 1998ish vintage.

a browser that can't bookmark isn't worthy of the name. bookmarking was a feature of friggin' Mosaic ("hotlists") and is supported in all four of the text-mode browsers on my linux machine.

strawman!

Elizabeth wrote: "Nick wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Nick wrote: "this is the kind of thing a bookmark folder is for, people. we have the technology lol"

Nick, you're assuming that everyone uses only only one browser o..."

handhelds? my hp48gx can't even use tcp/ip let alone render remote content.

on a serious note, i never expire cached content from goodreads, so i've got a searchable index of every review i've ever read on here (sometimes in multiple incarnations, and including those which have been removed afterwards). caches are good. hard drives are good. mmmm, 12.3TB of RAID5 on the workstation is very good indeed.

yes yes yes of course

Awww...I never thought about this until now. I'll have to see what books I read for 2010 to make my top favorite books list and I also want to make a list for my top favorite reviews like Paul did!

I have created a shelf: Favorites to Re-read, but have found it not so easy to select books or series for the shelf. It will take time to go back.

BTW, can one add a series to a bookshelf?

I made a second hall of fame just for PB.

Kristi said she was gonna do a hall of fame for hall of fames.

She will probably want royalties.

Jude better start those voice exercises. Mama needs cash.

I'm actually starting the nominations for the best reviews of 2011 right now! Check out what I got so far:

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...

I take this to mean the books, not the reviews, and have taken a tiered approach.

I set up shelves for all time best, fiction and non-fiction. But It is pretty minimal. I have not actually thought this through and considered the thousands of books read in a lifetime, but instead I add items as they cross my consciousness.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

On an ongoing basis, I began a shelf for what I consider, of what I have read, to be the best books released in 2011. I have no pre-set limit, such as the best ten or twenty, or scientific methodology. It is purely gut.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Ceridwen wrote: "There's one Mockingjay review I want to punch in the face, because it was without spoiler warnings, and spoiled many things for me in TOWERING ALLCAPS. (The spoiler box has since been hit.) But. I ..."

The other day, immediately prior to reading the book, I read a review like that one... I think my comment was something like "FUCKING SPOILER"... I was just a bit pissed off.

--edited it all because I misread the question--

I am glad these hall of fame lists exist. I am going to start on of my own.

Is there a way to look at all the reviews that I have 'liked'?

thanks.

I have not had a Hall of Fame to date, but I may begin one.

I'd find it difficult making a hall of fame...my interests change a lot so what I liked a year or two ago might be redundant now.

Hi Velvetink - but whatever your tastes change to, you still loved that particular review of the book you no longer enjoy, so the review belongs in your Hall of Fame... no?

Setup chapters: 2011, 2012 etc.

Paul wrote: "Hi Velvetink - but whatever your tastes change to, you still loved that particular review of the book you no longer enjoy, so the review belongs in your Hall of Fame... no?"

ah we're talking about other people's reviews...well that's different...there are some awesome ones on GR I like. Don't mind my confusion, I'm still on post op meds..brain a bit blurty.