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I have realized that I want something that does not, as far as I know, exist.
I want, at least right now, a web page like Television Without Pity or Rotten Tomatoes, but for books. So that when I find a new author while I'm browsing randomly at Barnes & Noble, and I'm debating whether or not I want to pay hardcover prices for an unknown writer, or whether it's worth my time to try reading what looks like another mediocre Mary Sue urban fantasy about a tattooed vampire sorceress were-puma investigative reporter and her hot demon boyfriend but just *might* be actually witter than the rest, I can look at what other genre junkies have to say.
Or so that I can have a place to go and share my incoherent handwaving glee over the potential awesome that is the movie of 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' or debate the relative accuracy of the depiction of postapocalyptic reconstruction in 'World War Z' versus 'Dies the Fire.' I know I can do this with my friends, but somehow I always wind up finding the books that no one else I know has read - and I know that Amazon has reviews, but most of the ones I've seen have been more or less useless.
So. Literature Without Pity. Who's going to make it for me?
(Incidentally, it probably says more about me than I want to admit that my three favorite novels of all time are 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' 'World War Z,' and 'Gone With the Wind.' Not sure exactly what it says, but it's clearly something, because that's a hell of an absurd grouping when you take them together....)
I want, at least right now, a web page like Television Without Pity or Rotten Tomatoes, but for books. So that when I find a new author while I'm browsing randomly at Barnes & Noble, and I'm debating whether or not I want to pay hardcover prices for an unknown writer, or whether it's worth my time to try reading what looks like another mediocre Mary Sue urban fantasy about a tattooed vampire sorceress were-puma investigative reporter and her hot demon boyfriend but just *might* be actually witter than the rest, I can look at what other genre junkies have to say.
Or so that I can have a place to go and share my incoherent handwaving glee over the potential awesome that is the movie of 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' or debate the relative accuracy of the depiction of postapocalyptic reconstruction in 'World War Z' versus 'Dies the Fire.' I know I can do this with my friends, but somehow I always wind up finding the books that no one else I know has read - and I know that Amazon has reviews, but most of the ones I've seen have been more or less useless.
So. Literature Without Pity. Who's going to make it for me?
(Incidentally, it probably says more about me than I want to admit that my three favorite novels of all time are 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' 'World War Z,' and 'Gone With the Wind.' Not sure exactly what it says, but it's clearly something, because that's a hell of an absurd grouping when you take them together....)
