I use it more as a reference for myself. Helps me keep track of what I’ve read and the books I own. I wish it had a better interface and made it easier to get errors on listings corrected. Not great if I am wishing it was more like Discogs.
www.lego.com
I absolutely adored The Corrections; it's one of the few books I've reread in my adult life. But I hated Freedom oh so very much; where The Corrections had some affection for its emotionally broken family of outcasts, it felt like Franzen was pointing to the family in Freedom and saying "look at these gentrifying-ass dipshits and their dumb bicycle pants." The early passage from the wife's diary was especially dire for me. I wonder what I'd think of it now, ten years removed.
I also like it as a method for tracking what I read and what I want to read. But I also think it's an absolute cesspool and the gamified nature of the user reviews, combined with the grind of seeking approval from the publishers which sent you the free books in the first place, really makes it impossible to get a bead on what books are worth your time and why.
This is how I use it as well.
Same. I'll only ever take a glance at the reviews once I'm finished a book (and then mainly the 1 star ones for the comedy value), but other than occasionally seeing one of my friends read or want list an interesting book I don't really care about the social aspect of it. Same with Letterboxd for movies.
like librarything?
Maybe. I am unfamiliar librarything. I will have to check it out.
Yeah, I was familiar with that one but not enough people bought into the idea so it was mostly a ghost town unfortunately.
Sing unburied sing is a great read. Haven't read the others but they're probably a pwrt of the canon for a reason
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells) or Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)? Haven't read the first but the latter is one of my favourite novels.
Please let me know how you like it once you've finished! That's been on my reading list for a long time.