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nolard12 t1_j0yquv9 wrote

Reply to comment by StarblindCelestial in Pro-tip: If a well reviewed book has a Goodread's rating of around 3.5 then it's usually interesting by Proper_Cold_6939

I use the Goodreads rating system in the first way you described. I’ve rated some 1500 books with something close to a standard distribution bell curve. My ratings average 3.3 or 3.4, but Ive only given 62 5-Star ratings. So many of my friends give 5’s to everything they read! Perhaps, I’m pickier than them or at least I have more critique for books than they seem to have.

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