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by jpzeni
5636 days ago
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Thanks for the recommendation. I've been in the mood for just that type of can't put down read. But after googling for 'book reviews', 'top books' and 'books you can't put down', etc and other similar queries I just got a bunch bestseller lists and spammy adsense sites. Weird |
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1) Go to amazon http://www.amazon.com
2) Pick your genre
3) Sort by reviews
4) Pick the books with the most number of positive reviews
5) Read a few of the negative ones
6) Go out to Google and search for the books you selected
7) Pick up reviews from other non-book-review sites, like hn or reddit
8) Confirm selection by comparing notes from various sources
9) Get the book to read
Or you can just go to http://hn-books.com and let somebody else do all of that for you
EDIT: It occurs to me that perhaps you're making a snarky comment which I'm ignoring, but just be aware that the biggest problem in finding great books isn't piss-poor search strings and frustrating google search results: it's fans who love author X and are going to give him/her positive reviews no matter what they write. It makes it difficult to use review systems. I don't think that in a net of a billion people and a trillion web pages you're ever going to find a simple method for locating a good book to read that's going to stay the same over any length of time. There's simply not enough description in "good book to read" to have any meaning. There's a huge amount of implied context that is relevant but not supplied.