There are two ways to get what you're looking for, which actually speak to the fact that such reviews are more commercially viable than movie or television reviews:
For the Top Ten style feature of Rotten Tomatoes, there's the New York Times Bestseller's list. Time's Best Seller list will give you a top 20 of fiction, non-fiction, etc. If you're looking for more than that, Amazon will give you similar lists /narrowed down to your category selections/, which for Amazon can get pretty specific.
For reviews, 'if you like X try Z' references, etc., Amazon. Amazon's system keeps it's reviews fairly topical, and it's not the #1 bookseller for no reason.
If you're an Amazon protester in light of trying to keep the physical book store alive, you can just skip down to Ye Olde Booke-Shoppe and buy the book you're looking for, or ask them to order it for you if it's not in stock. At this point, though, all of the local book stores I cared about have either caved or gotten their business models to work-- and the latter are selling used books through Amazon, so I don't feel guilty about buying books there anymore. Barnes and Noble and the other chain stores seem to be doing ok, so *shrug*
And Amazon is pretty great. Esp. because I can typically find the books I'm looking for for cheap used; there's even typically a discount off of new hardcover books too, so you might even get that new shiny book you've been waiting for for cheaper (and a day or two earlier than if you wait for the official release date, if you preorder). There is still the wait time to be considered; Amazon will never replace the instant gratification of the physical book store.
For what you're asking for, though, Amazon is pretty much it.
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Date: 2009-08-10 07:33 pm (UTC)For the Top Ten style feature of Rotten Tomatoes, there's the New York Times Bestseller's list. Time's Best Seller list will give you a top 20 of fiction, non-fiction, etc. If you're looking for more than that, Amazon will give you similar lists /narrowed down to your category selections/, which for Amazon can get pretty specific.
For reviews, 'if you like X try Z' references, etc., Amazon. Amazon's system keeps it's reviews fairly topical, and it's not the #1 bookseller for no reason.
If you're an Amazon protester in light of trying to keep the physical book store alive, you can just skip down to Ye Olde Booke-Shoppe and buy the book you're looking for, or ask them to order it for you if it's not in stock. At this point, though, all of the local book stores I cared about have either caved or gotten their business models to work-- and the latter are selling used books through Amazon, so I don't feel guilty about buying books there anymore. Barnes and Noble and the other chain stores seem to be doing ok, so *shrug*
And Amazon is pretty great. Esp. because I can typically find the books I'm looking for for cheap used; there's even typically a discount off of new hardcover books too, so you might even get that new shiny book you've been waiting for for cheaper (and a day or two earlier than if you wait for the official release date, if you preorder). There is still the wait time to be considered; Amazon will never replace the instant gratification of the physical book store.
For what you're asking for, though, Amazon is pretty much it.