I believe A Certain Hunger has not been released in many countries yet, that probably explains the rating (and how difficult to find / expensive it can be). To the UK for example it is coming in a month
Yep, no sign of it coming to Brazil, and importing it gets quite expensive. I'll probably read the e-book though, cause this channel really made me want to read it.
5:53 The exact same thing happened with Lorde's latest album, which was super fun and up beat. Everyone was just complaining that it wasn't heart-wrenchingly depressing :/ It's like people have a harder time giving praise to stories and art that is unabashedly joyful and without misery.
There are also a bunch of genuinely great books that have few ratings because they are not written in English and goodreads it's a platform prevalently used by English-speaking people (at least on my shelves half of the least popular books are by french and italian authors). My least popular shelved book on goodreads has 6 ratings 😂
My least popular has 2 ratings, understandably so cause its the vol 17 of a manga lol i didnt even rate it tho so maybe more ppl read it and just didnt rate it?
Oh, for sure! I often want to recommend one of my favourite books ever to native English speakers but unfortunately it's in my native language (Finnish) and has not been translated into English, not yet at least. It currently only has 29 Goodreads reviews :') tbh as a beginner translator I kind of dream of translating the book myself, but whether I'll be able/allowed to remains to be seen haha
The most "no plot just vibes" book I've ever read was Untold Night and Day. It takes place in the space of 24 hours during a heatwave in Seoul and absolutely nothing makes sense. You can't even tell which character is which sometimes. There are a lot of theories about Korean shamanism and such, but if you just read it expecting it to feel like a dream, you're in for a good time!
This is why I gave up on Goodreads and now just have a good variety of Booktubers who I know love the same books I do and see what you all recommend! I trust you guys way more than Goodreads!!😆😆😆
I know that a lot of youtubers are going off Goodreads, changing to Storygraph for various reasons. I'm curious if it may skew some of the results, especially for the newest books, since people who read them first are the very influencers, not present on the platform anymore. Btw, the lowest rated within my read books is a book, which is a required reading in high school. I also couldn't stand how boring it was, when I was 17, reread it recently and it is brilliant. So there is one more variable - if the book is required reading, it is likely to get a lot of one stars!
I was thinking the same thing and i checked and it has 1307 reviews on Storygraph. I also think many people don’t always review the books the read so that might also be a factor. Because I have involuntarily heard so many influencers talk about this book so I find it hard to believe that so few people have read it 😅
what you said about recommended reading is so real - i find that classics tend to fall among the mid-three star range because of the sheer amount of polarising 1 star and 5 star reviews lol. i think thomas more's utopia was only something like 2.7 on storygraph then i read it
@@bibliophilecb "The boundary" bo Zofia Nałkowska, Polish classic from 1920 or 1930. Discussing social issues (class, gender) as well as ethical ones. Suprisingly leftist and feminist, since most of what we are reading in schools is about dying for you motherland, not about abortions and responsibilities of young man towards maids they bang.
Oh my I actually love Twilight so, so much. I've reread the books multiple times, and honestly, I do not think they are well-written AT ALL, but there is something just so hilariously ridiculous about them that I can't help but love the whole thing. The movies though...totally another issue XD
As usual, your energy is just such..... a specific thing haha I think the difference between Goodreads review and personal opinion can be especially big when it comes to non-fiction, especially once personal subjective opinions on politics/history etc enter a review. Plenty of chuckles to be had from reviews like that!
Another highly underrated book that's dark academia (with a low-ish score that I think is way too low for what it deserves) and many people will adore if they loved these violent delights is "summer sons" by lee mandelo! I cannot recommend it enough 🥰
I’ve read a book that’s only been rated 53 times yet Good reads still recommended it to me. I gave it 4 star along with the majority of the 52 other people
I adore The Bedlam Stacks and found the Watchmaker of Filigree Street to be slightly boring, which is pretty funny since the later has so much more action than the first. The Bedlam Stacks is a great atmospheric book I find, kind of something quiet to read when its raining outside and you have something warm to drink. I understand its not for everyone, but it sits very solidly in my personal five star list :) Loved the idea of this video btw! I think sometimes we all get caught up in the bandwagon of books that are best for large audiences, but some of my favourite books are stuff I can't necessarily recommend to people because they were just so perfect to me at the time I read them, but I know they can be a hard match for others.
I watch many booktubers but Leonie's calm and cozy energy just hit different. 😍 Thank you for making these beautiful videos. I always respect your opinions about books. ❤️
I read These Violent Delights on your recommendation last month and it’s now my favorite book I’ve read this year so far! (tysm for that lol) I never realized it had so few ratings though that’s insane to me
I also picked up A Certain Hunger because of TikTok and I was under the impression that it was super popular and I was shocked at how few people had actually rated it. I was sold on this book by the cannibalism plot but in the end I had to give it 2 stars, I didn’t think it was very good :/
A Certain Hunger was initially released on audiobook and got an updated physical release in the US in 2021, and I believe a UK publisher just picked it up a few months ago, so it’s still a pretty new book but under half a thousand review? That’s pretty crazy
beautiful world where are you is my favorite sally rooney book! I listened to it and I remember staying up all night listening. it was like listening to your friend tell you all their deepest thoughts. haters just be hatin lol
Hi Leo! You're so funny and insightful💕 I tend to get frustrated by reviews and rates I try to not read at all sometimes and just go with my mood and instinct, then I read the sample and go for it or not.🙂 💕🌻☕🇦🇷
as a woman who never wears makeup, it makes me so happy to see my fav youtubers be comfortable filming w no makeup on!!! ppl dont realise how important it is to be comfortable with their own bare face and what an impact it makes on others :D
Today I sat down at my lunch break to read the first couple of chapters of The House by the Cerulean Sea, which I recently did a book swap with my friend for. So a few hours later I looked up at my whining dog's face who was pawing for my attention, realised that I was halfway through the book and needed to finish my work hours for the day. Welp. Good job I'm on flexi!
I looved a certain hunger, and I discovered it thanks to you. It's not like my favourite book ever but for sure it's in a top 25 maybe 30. I'm also very tempted to try and read bunny, it's so interesting!
beautiful world where are you was the first sally rooneys i read & i personally enjoy them more than her previous books 👁👄👁 the title alone is just 💥💳💥💳💥💳
Hi Leonie! Going to leave a recomendation which i haven´t read, but is on my "cannibalism" radar called Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.... after this video it came back to mind and it might be within the whole vibe... weird i know! Loved the video as always.
i find these videos really interesting because i read a lot of literary fiction so most of the books i read are rated pretty low! i think the problem for a lot of people is what you described with bunny; lots of literary fiction seems to get low ratings because people are uncomfortable with ambiguity? often i'll love a book then read the bad reviews and realise that the complexity and open-endedness that i really enjoyed made other people hate it
Oh my god me too. I love Catherine house. I randomly read it one day and I didn't have expectations, just the blurb on the back. I can understand why people might not like it. They said it's too artsy and vague. But i think i love it for that. It's a diff kind of dark academia vibe
i want to read a certain hunger so bad!!! I have visited multiple different bookstores multiple times and it's never been there!! tried to buy online but it cost like 35 Australian dollars (over 20 euros) like bruh, this is misogyny at play!!
I 100% aggre that the 100 derves only one strar but omgggg I read it recently and I have never had so much fun reading s book ever I was lafing out loud it’s trach at it’s finest I strongly recomend this book!!!!!!!! Thanks for my rant
I often read unknown thrift shop non-fiction, so some of my books have less than 10 ratings. I also added some of the books myself (yes, you can add books to goodreads if they're not on their yet. But I think you can only do this on a desktop, not on your phone app).
The first thing I thought when I clicked on this video was: I just know Bunny will be in this one and although I understand why many people dislike the book, it's one of my favorites as well 🥰. (Because of your video of the book actually, 'cause that video made me curious about what I would think of the book)
Wilder Girls was something i hoped to be more weird and less directed. Like... there is not much room for interpretation, except for the ending maybe. It was just very badly written and half of the plot did not make any sense at all. And none of the characters had any deep personality or character development whatsoever. I was so disappointed by that book because i really WANTED the weird horror and instead got some "ohhhh look at me i am so quirky because i take the age old infection trope and mix it with some kids" Loved the video btw!
I was curious and check my own worst rated readings and I rated 5 stars on the 10 worst XD I can not understand people, unless some of these books wore some kind of poetry that people don’t get into it because they are so serious xD
Finally someone talking about These Violent Delights by Micah!!! It's such a perfect book and it's such an absolute shame that not many people know about it.
The Dog Walker sounds like an American rom-com version of The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain which took three attempts for me to finish because it was so boring but also ridiculous because a man falls in love with a woman by going through her handbag and living in her flat (looking after her cat while she is in a coma) and she is totally fine with it all and falls in love with him at the end too
The 100 the show is a fun drinking type show. My Mom and I binged it in like two-ish months and had so much fun with it. I will say don't try to rationalize it too much, just go with it.
I work at a Bookshop in Colombia that specializes in books in English, and we were able to get 2 copies of A Certain Hunger. The other bookseller and me bought them because it was a really lucky find. Hahaha
i feel like the 3 star range for books is a lot like thrifting. most of the stuff probably won’t be for you, there might be stuff you don’t like at all, but you still wanna look for the chance that you find a gem that absolutely consumes your life
i was so baffled to hear that 9000 ratings isn't much, bc i have a book with 23 ratings on my shelf (its orange is for anguish blue is for insanity by david morrell)
There's some excellent books out there with very low numbers because they are new(-ish), but it's still amazing that I have read something that only has 13 other ratings on Goodreads or anything under 1000 really.
As someone who DIDN’T read Twilight as a 15 years old and read it later to see if Twihards were right about the book being amazing… I can totally see why it’s not super highly rated, because that book is just… not great 😅 It’s way too long for the little content it actually had, it’s boring, it put me into a reading slump, the characters have no personality, it’s full of that good old « early 2000s romance sexism » that we love… Yep. I feel like it’s the type of book that’ll disappoint just about anyone who isn’t a teenager at the time of reading 😅
I am not into dark academy. I have decided that solely by not enjoying "Ninth House". Nonethless I will give "These Violent Delights" a chance. I put it on my wishlist on Audible. (I do own Chloe Gong's book but have never finished it :D)
I find it hard to rate books that I've read on Goodreads, because the 5 star rating system is a bit restrictive without half stars. But I consider 3 stars to be a good rating. 4 stars can seem a bit too near to a perfect score, and then 5 stars is reserved for perfect books (which, to be fair, I think I am a bit over-generous with). I think it would help if you could rate books by the half star. 😋📚
I have novels from the victorian era that doesnt even exist on goodreads that i picked up from thriftstores. One is a about scientist exploring nothern canada, and the other about a princess and a talking cat.
Most of the time on GR you have mid books within a genre rated 4.5 stars and masterpieces rated 3.8 because if you read a trashy romance you have certain expectations and you don't really put in a lot of effort to understand the story.
😆 A certain hunger that used to have just 400 ratings now has just over 8000 ratings since you made the video 2 months ago (and an average rating of 4 stars) and these violent delights also has a 4 star rating now and about 7000 ratings. Is that your influence? Impressive 😎 loved the video so much by the way
personally, I don't put much stock in the ratings of the great unwashed masses on Goodreads. However; there are certain people (some are booktubers), who's opinions, I do take to heart. After a quick scan, the lowest Goodreads rated book, a book that I gave 5 ⭐s, is Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VandeMeer coming in at 3.29 ⭐s Another 5⭐ read for me, with only 681 ratings (3.76 average) is Reasons She Goes To The Woods by Debora Kay Davies. on a side note: I read Twilight. But I read the one by William Gay.
I found Wilder Girls very disappointing because not much happened, the romance weirdly came out of nowhere, and it sounded to me like it was prepping to be the first of a series - hence the abrupt ending.
I personally didn't enjoy Beautiful World Where Are You because I thought it was just super boring 😬😬 I'm a big Sally Rooney fan but this book just was not it for me
I honestly think TVD is not as popular as it should be cause of its cover.... i almost didnt pick it up when i first saw it cause i thought it was so ugly lol but then 3 ppl i trust recommended it (you included) and i was convinced (im reading it rn and loving it, thanks
My least rated book on Goodreads has a 0.0 average rating, because no one's ever rated it lol. I'm one of two or three people who've read it on Goodreads. It's just a book that showcases the sharks and rays of the Arabian gulf, I got it at an aquarium gift shop.
I thought this was an interesting review of the books you've read. I went to my Goodreads to do that same and just discovered the least popular book I've read only has 43 ratings!
I read a lot of Welsh Language books, so they've often only got 2-50 ratings, and I want to read this one books, Trwy'r Tonnau by Manon Steffan Ros just because it has NO ratings and I wanna be the first
I've DNFed Bunny, but I kind of liked it. My issue is that I don't like unreliable narrators and not being sure if something really happen makes me lose interest it the story.
I actually liked the first book in the Twilight series. But I read it like 5 years back so I have no idea how I'll feel now. I'll probably like the first one but I'm sure I won't like the rest😂😂
Ooh, I was intrigued by this concept - and was kinda shocked at some of the books that ranked under a 3.5! Only 'kinda', though, since I can see how some are "niche": 10) "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorn (me: 3, Av: 3.43) Probably all the people forced to read this for school is what is dragging the rating down! I HATED how our teacher covered it, but I suspect I'd like it better if I read it now as an adult. 9) "Madam Bovary's Ovaries" by David Barash (me: 3, Av: 3.36) I rated this 3 because I remembered liking it but didn't remember it very well. 8) "The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon (me: 4, Av: 3.36). A very old Sherlock Holmes tries to solve a last mystery: finding the missing number-spouting parrot of a Jewish refugee child. It is quite sad, and I can also see why 'Holmes has dementia and Watson is dead' might not appeal to some hardcore Holmes fans! 7) "Death comes to Pemberley" by PD James (me: 2, Av: 3.30). A cute idea for a mystery novel, but just read Pride and Prejudice or PD James' other books! 6) "Outfoxing fear: Folktales from around the world" by Kathleen Ragan (me: 4, Av: 3.30). I like folktales, these were pretty good. Maybe other people didn't like the editor/author talking about herself in between? *5) "Peaces" by Helen Oyeyemi (me: 4, Av: 3.29)* An admittedly deeply weird book. But a surrealist train journey with cute pet mongooses that is extremely gay? Sign me up! ajungleoftales.blogspot.com/2021/09/first-impressions-review-peaces-by.html 4) "The divine husband" by Francisco Goldman (me: 3, Av: 3.25). This was a fine historical fiction, but it is another I gave 3 stars because I don't remember it that well. 3) "Avoid boring people: Lessons from a life in science" by James Watson (me: 1, Av: 3.23). I almost NEVER give books 1 star, but this book made me hate James Watson (yes, the DNA guy) SO MUCH. He makes himself look like such an asshole. How much of an asshole? Well, he admits to trying to pick up undergrad girls as a professor...and complains about failing. *2) "Gingerbread" by Helen Oyeyemi (me: 4, Av: 3.06)* This is not as weird as "Peaces" so I don't know why it ranks lower! But I love the magical realism, the way it has a black bisexual MC without either of those things being a problem for her, the messiness, the way it subverts at least two different romance tropes... ajungleoftales.blogspot.com/2020/10/first-impressions-review-gingerbread-by.html 1) "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson (me: 2 Av: 2.78). Technically a classic, but a lot of people even at the time didn't care for it (a parody called "Shamela" came out shortly after). These days the main issue for readers is that the girl ends up with the rich employer who's been sexually harassing her!
I believe A Certain Hunger has not been released in many countries yet, that probably explains the rating (and how difficult to find / expensive it can be). To the UK for example it is coming in a month
Yep, no sign of it coming to Brazil, and importing it gets quite expensive. I'll probably read the e-book though, cause this channel really made me want to read it.
Yeah in poland it's also not translated and books in English are so expensive 😫 and I really really want to read that
5:53 The exact same thing happened with Lorde's latest album, which was super fun and up beat. Everyone was just complaining that it wasn't heart-wrenchingly depressing :/ It's like people have a harder time giving praise to stories and art that is unabashedly joyful and without misery.
The whole point of solar power was to be shedding the sadness and melodrama (lol) of her past but people just be stuck being sad!!!!!!!
There are also a bunch of genuinely great books that have few ratings because they are not written in English and goodreads it's a platform prevalently used by English-speaking people (at least on my shelves half of the least popular books are by french and italian authors). My least popular shelved book on goodreads has 6 ratings 😂
My least popular has 2 ratings, understandably so cause its the vol 17 of a manga lol i didnt even rate it tho so maybe more ppl read it and just didnt rate it?
But yeah a lot of my least popular reads are from a non-english speaking country
Oh, for sure! I often want to recommend one of my favourite books ever to native English speakers but unfortunately it's in my native language (Finnish) and has not been translated into English, not yet at least. It currently only has 29 Goodreads reviews :') tbh as a beginner translator I kind of dream of translating the book myself, but whether I'll be able/allowed to remains to be seen haha
annie m.g shcmidt is the only children's author i like, but because she's dutch no one really knows about her (at least internationally).
The most "no plot just vibes" book I've ever read was Untold Night and Day. It takes place in the space of 24 hours during a heatwave in Seoul and absolutely nothing makes sense. You can't even tell which character is which sometimes. There are a lot of theories about Korean shamanism and such, but if you just read it expecting it to feel like a dream, you're in for a good time!
This is why I gave up on Goodreads and now just have a good variety of Booktubers who I know love the same books I do and see what you all recommend! I trust you guys way more than Goodreads!!😆😆😆
i learnt this the hard way. Now trusting these booktubers. like her
Would you mind sharing which booktubers are your favorite?
Bunny was literally the craziest and coolest book ever, doesn't make sense how it has such a low rating
I know that a lot of youtubers are going off Goodreads, changing to Storygraph for various reasons. I'm curious if it may skew some of the results, especially for the newest books, since people who read them first are the very influencers, not present on the platform anymore.
Btw, the lowest rated within my read books is a book, which is a required reading in high school. I also couldn't stand how boring it was, when I was 17, reread it recently and it is brilliant. So there is one more variable - if the book is required reading, it is likely to get a lot of one stars!
I was thinking the same thing and i checked and it has 1307 reviews on Storygraph. I also think many people don’t always review the books the read so that might also be a factor.
Because I have involuntarily heard so many influencers talk about this book so I find it hard to believe that so few people have read it 😅
what you said about recommended reading is so real - i find that classics tend to fall among the mid-three star range because of the sheer amount of polarising 1 star and 5 star reviews lol. i think thomas more's utopia was only something like 2.7 on storygraph then i read it
Which book was it?
@@bibliophilecb "The boundary" bo Zofia Nałkowska, Polish classic from 1920 or 1930. Discussing social issues (class, gender) as well as ethical ones. Suprisingly leftist and feminist, since most of what we are reading in schools is about dying for you motherland, not about abortions and responsibilities of young man towards maids they bang.
Oh my I actually love Twilight so, so much. I've reread the books multiple times, and honestly, I do not think they are well-written AT ALL, but there is something just so hilariously ridiculous about them that I can't help but love the whole thing. The movies though...totally another issue XD
They are so cozy to me!! All the hate makes me so sad, those books bring me so much nostalgia and calmness
@@Breeski1 They're honestly my comfort read.
I think you're my favorite youtuber, I love your accent and your way of speak 💖 loved the video
I just need to say, this is my fav YT channel, like, it's my comfort place on the internet
As usual, your energy is just such..... a specific thing haha
I think the difference between Goodreads review and personal opinion can be especially big when it comes to non-fiction, especially once personal subjective opinions on politics/history etc enter a review. Plenty of chuckles to be had from reviews like that!
hi leonie i’d love to see videos centered around an aestethic like cottagecore etc.
The dog walker sounds like a good start to a thriller or horror book 😂
Another highly underrated book that's dark academia (with a low-ish score that I think is way too low for what it deserves) and many people will adore if they loved these violent delights is "summer sons" by lee mandelo! I cannot recommend it enough 🥰
I love Bunny so much. I can't believe people don't like it. Such a wild ride!
I’ve read a book that’s only been rated 53 times yet Good reads still recommended it to me. I gave it 4 star along with the majority of the 52 other people
I personally wouldn't consider any rating over 3.2 as a bad rating, under 4 - it's just an average book. Very a fun video 🥰
I adore The Bedlam Stacks and found the Watchmaker of Filigree Street to be slightly boring, which is pretty funny since the later has so much more action than the first. The Bedlam Stacks is a great atmospheric book I find, kind of something quiet to read when its raining outside and you have something warm to drink. I understand its not for everyone, but it sits very solidly in my personal five star list :)
Loved the idea of this video btw! I think sometimes we all get caught up in the bandwagon of books that are best for large audiences, but some of my favourite books are stuff I can't necessarily recommend to people because they were just so perfect to me at the time I read them, but I know they can be a hard match for others.
I watch many booktubers but Leonie's calm and cozy energy just hit different. 😍 Thank you for making these beautiful videos. I always respect your opinions about books. ❤️
I mean with the amount of love the Hannibal series got some years ago, i think it is just because not a lot of people know about A Certain Hunger yet.
Bunny had 3,5 average rating in 2020 so 3,57 is improvement 😂 it’s also one of my fav books (I’ve read it three times) so it’s crushing my soul
Omg I'm reading bunny rn and I absolutely love it.
I read These Violent Delights on your recommendation last month and it’s now my favorite book I’ve read this year so far! (tysm for that lol) I never realized it had so few ratings though that’s insane to me
I also picked up A Certain Hunger because of TikTok and I was under the impression that it was super popular and I was shocked at how few people had actually rated it.
I was sold on this book by the cannibalism plot but in the end I had to give it 2 stars, I didn’t think it was very good :/
A Certain Hunger was initially released on audiobook and got an updated physical release in the US in 2021, and I believe a UK publisher just picked it up a few months ago, so it’s still a pretty new book but under half a thousand review? That’s pretty crazy
I adore your videos! Love the colour of the sweater on you + need to know where you got that mug. It's so pretty!
beautiful world where are you is my favorite sally rooney book! I listened to it and I remember staying up all night listening. it was like listening to your friend tell you all their deepest thoughts. haters just be hatin lol
Hi Leo! You're so funny and insightful💕 I tend to get frustrated by reviews and rates I try to not read at all sometimes and just go with my mood and instinct, then I read the sample and go for it or not.🙂 💕🌻☕🇦🇷
omg i was thinking of reading Crimson Bound for the past few days and i’m now taking this as a sign i should read it
Based on your description I think I'd really like Bunny. I'll have to try that one eventually.
off topic: you are a NATURAL beauty. you do NOT need any make-up!! (of course, you do you!!)💕
as a woman who never wears makeup, it makes me so happy to see my fav youtubers be comfortable filming w no makeup on!!! ppl dont realise how important it is to be comfortable with their own bare face and what an impact it makes on others :D
i cannot believe how underrated these violent delights is it pains me i need micah nemerever to get more recognition !!!
Look at you, pumping out content! Love it 😍
A Certain Hunger is easily one of my favorite reads of the year and I recommend it to everyone who comes into work
I don't think I own a single coaster for the same reason, my mug gravitates to my books!
So nice to finally see the real you. Did not disappoint
i just ordered these violent delight! the plot sounds so much better than the fantasy one.
A certain hunger really surprises me!! I loved that book and got it from my local library
I love your videos omg your vibes is amazing 🤩
Earl Grey, goes well with honey and a slice of lemon
Today I sat down at my lunch break to read the first couple of chapters of The House by the Cerulean Sea, which I recently did a book swap with my friend for. So a few hours later I looked up at my whining dog's face who was pawing for my attention, realised that I was halfway through the book and needed to finish my work hours for the day. Welp. Good job I'm on flexi!
The fact that you love Wilder Girls was so validating for me
I looved a certain hunger, and I discovered it thanks to you. It's not like my favourite book ever but for sure it's in a top 25 maybe 30. I'm also very tempted to try and read bunny, it's so interesting!
This was such a great video Leonie! Love your look today, you remind me of Sansa Stark from the Game of Thrones show :D
beautiful world where are you was the first sally rooneys i read & i personally enjoy them more than her previous books 👁👄👁 the title alone is just 💥💳💥💳💥💳
Hi Leonie!
Going to leave a recomendation which i haven´t read, but is on my "cannibalism" radar called Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.... after this video it came back to mind and it might be within the whole vibe... weird i know!
Loved the video as always.
i find these videos really interesting because i read a lot of literary fiction so most of the books i read are rated pretty low! i think the problem for a lot of people is what you described with bunny; lots of literary fiction seems to get low ratings because people are uncomfortable with ambiguity? often i'll love a book then read the bad reviews and realise that the complexity and open-endedness that i really enjoyed made other people hate it
The lowest rated book I've read is 3.12. It's cathrine house and I actually really liked it lol
Oh my god me too. I love Catherine house. I randomly read it one day and I didn't have expectations, just the blurb on the back.
I can understand why people might not like it. They said it's too artsy and vague. But i think i love it for that. It's a diff kind of dark academia vibe
i want to read a certain hunger so bad!!! I have visited multiple different bookstores multiple times and it's never been there!! tried to buy online but it cost like 35 Australian dollars (over 20 euros) like bruh, this is misogyny at play!!
I 100% aggre that the 100 derves only one strar but omgggg I read it recently and I have never had so much fun reading s book ever I was lafing out loud it’s trach at it’s finest I strongly recomend this book!!!!!!!! Thanks for my rant
I often read unknown thrift shop non-fiction, so some of my books have less than 10 ratings.
I also added some of the books myself (yes, you can add books to goodreads if they're not on their yet. But I think you can only do this on a desktop, not on your phone app).
I haven’t read a certain hunger but it’s on my “get to very soon TBR”
I finished One True Loves ten minutes ago, and I almost collapsed at the "earl grey tea" mention
The first thing I thought when I clicked on this video was: I just know Bunny will be in this one and although I understand why many people dislike the book, it's one of my favorites as well 🥰. (Because of your video of the book actually, 'cause that video made me curious about what I would think of the book)
I’m currently reading A Certain Hunger and I am loving it.
Wilder Girls was something i hoped to be more weird and less directed. Like... there is not much room for interpretation, except for the ending maybe. It was just very badly written and half of the plot did not make any sense at all. And none of the characters had any deep personality or character development whatsoever. I was so disappointed by that book because i really WANTED the weird horror and instead got some "ohhhh look at me i am so quirky because i take the age old infection trope and mix it with some kids"
Loved the video btw!
I was curious and check my own worst rated readings and I rated 5 stars on the 10 worst XD
I can not understand people, unless some of these books wore some kind of poetry that people don’t get into it because they are so serious xD
I have read AND loved A Certain Hunger!!! 🤓
And I was just as shocked as you!
Finally someone talking about These Violent Delights by Micah!!! It's such a perfect book and it's such an absolute shame that not many people know about it.
Yes bakers magic! I'm so glad to finally find someone who knows this book I LOVE YOU
Beautiful world where are you is such a beautiful book! And I liked crimson bound.
when I can't decide what to read next from my owned books I will either look at the top rated ones or the lowest rated ones
The Dog Walker sounds like an American rom-com version of The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain which took three attempts for me to finish because it was so boring but also ridiculous because a man falls in love with a woman by going through her handbag and living in her flat (looking after her cat while she is in a coma) and she is totally fine with it all and falls in love with him at the end too
The 100 the show is a fun drinking type show.
My Mom and I binged it in like two-ish months and had so much fun with it.
I will say don't try to rationalize it too much, just go with it.
3:04 Rosamund Hodge*****
I was so confused, Rosamund Pike is an actress, don't think she writes xD
I work at a Bookshop in Colombia that specializes in books in English, and we were able to get 2 copies of A Certain Hunger. The other bookseller and me bought them because it was a really lucky find. Hahaha
i feel like the 3 star range for books is a lot like thrifting. most of the stuff probably won’t be for you, there might be stuff you don’t like at all, but you still wanna look for the chance that you find a gem that absolutely consumes your life
i was so baffled to hear that 9000 ratings isn't much, bc i have a book with 23 ratings on my shelf (its orange is for anguish blue is for insanity by david morrell)
There's some excellent books out there with very low numbers because they are new(-ish), but it's still amazing that I have read something that only has 13 other ratings on Goodreads or anything under 1000 really.
A lot of Chuck Palahniuk books have low low ratings in book sites. But they are absolutely my fave books.
As someone who DIDN’T read Twilight as a 15 years old and read it later to see if Twihards were right about the book being amazing… I can totally see why it’s not super highly rated, because that book is just… not great 😅 It’s way too long for the little content it actually had, it’s boring, it put me into a reading slump, the characters have no personality, it’s full of that good old « early 2000s romance sexism » that we love… Yep. I feel like it’s the type of book that’ll disappoint just about anyone who isn’t a teenager at the time of reading 😅
love ya leonie! thx for the vid
15:06 you’re now becoming the meme I’ll use when I want to talk about books I hated
I am not into dark academy. I have decided that solely by not enjoying "Ninth House".
Nonethless I will give "These Violent Delights" a chance. I put it on my wishlist on Audible. (I do own Chloe Gong's book but have never finished it :D)
I find it hard to rate books that I've read on Goodreads, because the 5 star rating system is a bit restrictive without half stars. But I consider 3 stars to be a good rating. 4 stars can seem a bit too near to a perfect score, and then 5 stars is reserved for perfect books (which, to be fair, I think I am a bit over-generous with). I think it would help if you could rate books by the half star. 😋📚
girl i need u to get on storygraph
I also loved bunny! I did not understand why it was rated so low
Not only lava lamp, but also record player. Very retro!
I have novels from the victorian era that doesnt even exist on goodreads that i picked up from thriftstores. One is a about scientist exploring nothern canada, and the other about a princess and a talking cat.
Thank you for this video!
Most of the time on GR you have mid books within a genre rated 4.5 stars and masterpieces rated 3.8 because if you read a trashy romance you have certain expectations and you don't really put in a lot of effort to understand the story.
😆 A certain hunger that used to have just 400 ratings now has just over 8000 ratings since you made the video 2 months ago (and an average rating of 4 stars) and these violent delights also has a 4 star rating now and about 7000 ratings. Is that your influence? Impressive 😎 loved the video so much by the way
the dog walker book sounds like a fever dream
I always close the rating with my finger when I'm starting to read it, and then I check if I think the same 😅
personally, I don't put much stock in the ratings of the great unwashed masses on Goodreads. However; there are certain people (some are booktubers), who's opinions, I do take to heart.
After a quick scan, the lowest Goodreads rated book, a book that I gave 5 ⭐s, is Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VandeMeer coming in at 3.29 ⭐s
Another 5⭐ read for me, with only 681 ratings (3.76 average) is Reasons She Goes To The Woods by Debora Kay Davies.
on a side note: I read Twilight. But I read the one by William Gay.
I found Wilder Girls very disappointing because not much happened, the romance weirdly came out of nowhere, and it sounded to me like it was prepping to be the first of a series - hence the abrupt ending.
I personally didn't enjoy Beautiful World Where Are You because I thought it was just super boring 😬😬 I'm a big Sally Rooney fan but this book just was not it for me
I honestly think TVD is not as popular as it should be cause of its cover.... i almost didnt pick it up when i first saw it cause i thought it was so ugly lol but then 3 ppl i trust recommended it (you included) and i was convinced (im reading it rn and loving it, thanks
Great video!
You look so beautiful today, Leonie 💕💕
23:05 yeahh, same.. but it is interesting. (Especially the laws surrounding cannibalism)
I found "A Certain Hunger" on GoodReads with over 17000 ratings, maybe it's because of the edition? Different editions have different ratings
My least rated book on Goodreads has a 0.0 average rating, because no one's ever rated it lol. I'm one of two or three people who've read it on Goodreads. It's just a book that showcases the sharks and rays of the Arabian gulf, I got it at an aquarium gift shop.
i love this video thank you
I thought this was an interesting review of the books you've read. I went to my Goodreads to do that same and just discovered the least popular book I've read only has 43 ratings!
Read a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, it's a novella. But go into it blindly! I think you'll like it
I read a lot of Welsh Language books, so they've often only got 2-50 ratings, and I want to read this one books, Trwy'r Tonnau by Manon Steffan Ros just because it has NO ratings and I wanna be the first
I've DNFed Bunny, but I kind of liked it. My issue is that I don't like unreliable narrators and not being sure if something really happen makes me lose interest it the story.
I actually liked the first book in the Twilight series. But I read it like 5 years back so I have no idea how I'll feel now. I'll probably like the first one but I'm sure I won't like the rest😂😂
Okay but… I want those twilight covers…
Ooh, I was intrigued by this concept - and was kinda shocked at some of the books that ranked under a 3.5! Only 'kinda', though, since I can see how some are "niche":
10) "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorn (me: 3, Av: 3.43) Probably all the people forced to read this for school is what is dragging the rating down! I HATED how our teacher covered it, but I suspect I'd like it better if I read it now as an adult.
9) "Madam Bovary's Ovaries" by David Barash (me: 3, Av: 3.36) I rated this 3 because I remembered liking it but didn't remember it very well.
8) "The Final Solution" by Michael Chabon (me: 4, Av: 3.36). A very old Sherlock Holmes tries to solve a last mystery: finding the missing number-spouting parrot of a Jewish refugee child. It is quite sad, and I can also see why 'Holmes has dementia and Watson is dead' might not appeal to some hardcore Holmes fans!
7) "Death comes to Pemberley" by PD James (me: 2, Av: 3.30). A cute idea for a mystery novel, but just read Pride and Prejudice or PD James' other books!
6) "Outfoxing fear: Folktales from around the world" by Kathleen Ragan (me: 4, Av: 3.30). I like folktales, these were pretty good. Maybe other people didn't like the editor/author talking about herself in between?
*5) "Peaces" by Helen Oyeyemi (me: 4, Av: 3.29)* An admittedly deeply weird book. But a surrealist train journey with cute pet mongooses that is extremely gay? Sign me up! ajungleoftales.blogspot.com/2021/09/first-impressions-review-peaces-by.html
4) "The divine husband" by Francisco Goldman (me: 3, Av: 3.25). This was a fine historical fiction, but it is another I gave 3 stars because I don't remember it that well.
3) "Avoid boring people: Lessons from a life in science" by James Watson (me: 1, Av: 3.23). I almost NEVER give books 1 star, but this book made me hate James Watson (yes, the DNA guy) SO MUCH. He makes himself look like such an asshole. How much of an asshole? Well, he admits to trying to pick up undergrad girls as a professor...and complains about failing.
*2) "Gingerbread" by Helen Oyeyemi (me: 4, Av: 3.06)* This is not as weird as "Peaces" so I don't know why it ranks lower! But I love the magical realism, the way it has a black bisexual MC without either of those things being a problem for her, the messiness, the way it subverts at least two different romance tropes... ajungleoftales.blogspot.com/2020/10/first-impressions-review-gingerbread-by.html
1) "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson (me: 2 Av: 2.78). Technically a classic, but a lot of people even at the time didn't care for it (a parody called "Shamela" came out shortly after). These days the main issue for readers is that the girl ends up with the rich employer who's been sexually harassing her!
James Watson was a total asshole and a thief. He and Crick stole the DNA double helix model from Rosalind Franklin