Art and Fear -
A good book about the internal and external challenges to making art, along with the rewards.
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025
quote [ Authors are being hit by negative reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews. ]
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Dienes said @ 12:37pm GMT on 25th Jun
How tf is this news in TYOOL 2025? Its been like this since GoodReads inception, ostensibly for letting folks leave reviews from beta reads and ARCs.
I hope they are prepared for the 5-star reviews for books without finalized titles to also be removed. |
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R1Xhard said @ 1:10pm GMT on 25th Jun
So you wouldn't happen to have that list of un-finished 5-star works would you?
Asking for a friend. |
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Dienes said @ 10:22pm GMT on 25th Jun
I mean, you can look at a lot of the genre fiction, particularly sci-fi, fantasy, romance/romantasy and see the hype train.
Rothfuss would be the biggest one that comes to mind. |
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hellboy said @ 11:32pm GMT on 28th Jun
Dog that guy is massively overrated
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Paracetamol said @ 7:29am GMT on 26th Jun
This is like hip kid's abbreviation college for me .. what does ARC spell out?
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Menchi said @ 12:19am GMT on 28th Jun
[Score:1 Insightful]
From context, presumably "Advance Review Copy."
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mechanical contrivance said @ 6:12pm GMT on 25th Jun
It ought to be pretty simple to have user reviews turned off until the books' street dates. I guess Goodreads has some incentive to allow as many reviews as possible, fraudulent or not.
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Dienes said @ 10:23pm GMT on 25th Jun
I don't know why they don't require proof of an ARC copy to allow reviews ahead of releast dates. People will review/rate a book based on how much they *think* they will like it years before its even out.
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