You Cannot Remove Your Own Book From Goodreads
A commenter put the trap in one line: they take your book, let the trolls trash it, and will not let you remove it. Why Goodreads is easy to enter and impossible to leave.
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Book MarketingHow Amazon Ate the Book Social Networks
A commenter went looking for somewhere else to go and found nowhere. Amazon swallowed Shelfari, owns Goodreads, and left authors with no alternative that has any reach.
Book MarketingGoodreads Got My Book’s Data Wrong and Would Not Fix It
One author found Goodreads listing eight editions of a book that had four, another found every new title assigned to a stranger. Why the platform gets your book data wrong and locks you out of fixing it.
Book MarketingWhat a Goodreads Star Really Means: Three Different Things
Hover a Goodreads star and it tells you what it means. Almost nobody rates that way or reads them that way. Why the same star means three different things to Goodreads, to authors, and to readers.
Book ReviewsEats, Shoots and Leaves
A witty, bestselling defense of punctuation that turns commas and apostrophes into a genuine pleasure, the rare grammar book to become a cultural phenomenon. Funny, scholarly, and surprisingly moving about why these marks matter, held from the top by a…
Book ReviewsThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The leper Thomas Covenant is pulled into a magical Land he refuses to believe is real, in one of epic fantasy's most ambitious and uncompromising works. A radical inversion of the genre built on a deliberately unlikable hero: brilliant and…
Book ReviewsOthello
The noble Othello is poisoned by the malice of Iago, perhaps the most chilling villain Shakespeare ever wrote, in a devastating tragedy of jealousy and manipulation. Tightly built and startlingly modern, it is a masterclass in manipulation and one of…
Book ReviewsCrime and Punishment
The impoverished Raskolnikov moves from a theory-justified murder into the agony of guilt, paranoia, and the slow pull toward confession. The definitive novel of conscience, demanding but essential, and one of the towering achievements of world literature.
Book ReviewsA Clockwork Orange
The delinquent Alex undergoes a state-enforced cure that raises the book's central question: is goodness without choice goodness at all? A ferocious dystopia, brilliant and disturbing, written in unforgettable invented slang. A short novel that has lost none of its…
AdaptationThe Silence of the Lambs
FBI trainee Clarice Starling and the imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter in a duel of intellect and exposure. Tense, intelligent, and genuinely frightening, with one of fiction's most magnetic monsters. A colder and more psychologically granular book than even its Oscar-sweeping…
Book ReviewsThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Journalist Blomkvist and the fierce hacker Lisbeth Salander crack a decades-old disappearance, in the dark, propulsive thriller that launched a wave of Scandinavian crime fiction. Anchored by one of modern fiction's most original characters. Contains graphic content.
Book ReviewsThe Stranger
The detached Meursault is condemned as much for refusing to perform grief as for the murder he commits. Spare, cool, and philosophically charged, the literary cornerstone of absurdism. A small book of enormous influence, and one of the defining novels…