/r/BadReads

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Because sometimes: a book review says more about the reviewer than it does about the book. r/BadReads is a showcase of the most unhelpful book reviews from all over the internet: reviews that are shallow, vapid, vacuous or otherwise totally missing the point. Parody/satirical and tongue-in-cheek reviews are also welcome.

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A very funny review of guy debords Society of the Spectacle (tw: suicide)

0 Comments
2024/05/09
16:18 UTC

21

Goodreader reviews Charles Dickens in the voice of a Dickens character criticizing it for being too Dickensian

3 Comments
2024/05/09
13:13 UTC

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r/BadReads Weekly Hot-Takes: Or, Just Casual Discussion

BadReaders,

Welcome to our weekly thread for any and all instances of:

  • Literary Hot-Takes
  • Unpopular Opinions (about books & literature)
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • All-Around Unjerking
  • Review Apologetics
  • Casual Discussion

If you have a literary or bookish hot-take of your own (who doesn't?) feel free to air it here. Have an unpopular opinion about a book that you're too afraid to admit on any other thread? Post it here.

If you really need to get something off your chest about any of the posts from the past week or about the state of the sub, this weekly thread is the place to do it!

Get to unjerking, jerks.

- r/BadReads Moderator Team

1 Comment
2024/05/08
05:01 UTC

17

Picking up an 800 page volume in a series you’ve already read ~1200 pages of, then being shocked that it is long and similar to the other volumes

0 Comments
2024/05/07
02:52 UTC

66

Not enough personal growth in memoir about woman’s friend, parents, two children and husband dying in tsunami

9 Comments
2024/05/06
17:16 UTC

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BadReads introduction

Hey! BadReads started to follow me on Goodreads. Presumably because of my less then favourable reviews of Ulysses and Don Quichote.

Sooo, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

8 Comments
2024/05/06
08:18 UTC

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Weekly r/BadReads What Are You Reading? Thread

Greetings BadReaders,

Welcome to r/BadReads' weekly 'What Are You Reading?' thread. Use this thread to talk about what you've been reading this past week, ask for recommendations, or talk about your reading plans in general.

Happy Reading.

- r/BadReads Mod Team

6 Comments
2024/05/05
05:01 UTC

35

Gonna need some more of these Swede, Swede books.

1 Comment
2024/05/04
18:58 UTC

193

A review of "if not, winter: fragments of sappho"

14 Comments
2024/05/03
22:08 UTC

75

Adult reviewing The Polar Express

25 Comments
2024/05/01
17:56 UTC

5

r/BadReads Weekly Hot-Takes: Or, Just Casual Discussion

BadReaders,

Welcome to our weekly thread for any and all instances of:

  • Literary Hot-Takes
  • Unpopular Opinions (about books & literature)
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • All-Around Unjerking
  • Review Apologetics
  • Casual Discussion

If you have a literary or bookish hot-take of your own (who doesn't?) feel free to air it here. Have an unpopular opinion about a book that you're too afraid to admit on any other thread? Post it here.

If you really need to get something off your chest about any of the posts from the past week or about the state of the sub, this weekly thread is the place to do it!

Get to unjerking, jerks.

- r/BadReads Moderator Team

1 Comment
2024/05/01
05:01 UTC

81

Bought a zombie book and was mad it was a zombie book

Recently read a book and enjoyed it so I went to write a review and saw this dime

6 Comments
2024/04/28
21:37 UTC

68

The novelisation tie in for Dumb and Dumber was really missing something for this guy…

4 Comments
2024/04/28
17:11 UTC

98

Am I the only one who find this extremely tacky and mean spirited

28 Comments
2024/04/28
06:23 UTC

2

Weekly r/BadReads What Are You Reading? Thread

Greetings BadReaders,

Welcome to r/BadReads' weekly 'What Are You Reading?' thread. Use this thread to talk about what you've been reading this past week, ask for recommendations, or talk about your reading plans in general.

Happy Reading.

- r/BadReads Mod Team

1 Comment
2024/04/28
05:00 UTC

146

Forgotten 1970s BDSM fantasy porn Vs The Handmaid's Tale

26 Comments
2024/04/24
09:31 UTC

3

r/BadReads Weekly Hot-Takes: Or, Just Casual Discussion

BadReaders,

Welcome to our weekly thread for any and all instances of:

  • Literary Hot-Takes
  • Unpopular Opinions (about books & literature)
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • All-Around Unjerking
  • Review Apologetics
  • Casual Discussion

If you have a literary or bookish hot-take of your own (who doesn't?) feel free to air it here. Have an unpopular opinion about a book that you're too afraid to admit on any other thread? Post it here.

If you really need to get something off your chest about any of the posts from the past week or about the state of the sub, this weekly thread is the place to do it!

Get to unjerking, jerks.

- r/BadReads Moderator Team

8 Comments
2024/04/24
05:01 UTC

51

the author is a bigoted anti-godly liberaL!!! also I fucking hate my son

9 Comments
2024/04/22
16:21 UTC

159

Reading about people talking is scary

Worth noting; my edition of the book doesn’t have any dialogue until page 7. And there are plenty more pages after that with none. Idk how this person functions

14 Comments
2024/04/22
14:45 UTC

112

Killers of the flower moon has too many dead people

Joining this AARP sponsored book club on FB was the biggest mistake of my social media life. It’s the most clueless group of old white women in one spot. .**And I can say that as a clueless white woman

15 Comments
2024/04/22
02:09 UTC

4

Weekly r/BadReads What Are You Reading? Thread

Greetings BadReaders,

Welcome to r/BadReads' weekly 'What Are You Reading?' thread. Use this thread to talk about what you've been reading this past week, ask for recommendations, or talk about your reading plans in general.

Happy Reading.

- r/BadReads Mod Team

15 Comments
2024/04/21
05:00 UTC

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r/BadReads Updated Rules, 17 April 2024

Dearest BadReaders,

It's been a rough couple of months in Obliterature Land which required me to focus less on the goings-on of Reddit and the world wide web, so I've been gone for a while. I'm back, and I've made some adjustments to the rules around here. I don't really care if you're a goodreader or if you're practicing "review apologetics" anymore. Just don't be a dick, be respectful, and try your best to engage in intelligent conversation on these threads. You can defend a review that's posted here all you want, but don't tell people that a review "doesn't belong here". What does or doesn't belong here will be determined by me and my mod team (whenever I get around to recruiting new mods).

That said, here are the "new" rules:

  1. MODS REIGN SUPREME

Mods reserve final judgment and discretion on what is and is not appropriate for the subreddit and may thereby delete, remove, or ban whatever content and/or users they see fit. 2. All Book Reviews Belong on r/BadReads
Here at r/BadReads, we believe all book reviews suck. If you don't think so, you also suck, so get with the program, nerd. 3. Prejudice, Bigotry, and Hate Speech Are Strictly Forbidden
Bans will be handed out promptly to anyone who posts or comments bigotry, to include but limited to: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, etc. 4. No Cyberbullying/Personal Attacks
It goes without saying that no one should be verbally assaulting or bullying anyone else who subscribes here. Comments about reviewers that fall into this territory will also count as violations of this rule. Violations will be removed; repeat violators will be banned. 5. Spam & Troll Policy
Spam posts are strictly forbidden. Depending on the circumstances, spam posts may include posts that are off-topic or deviate from the primary purpose of the subreddit, which is to share bad book reviews and literary opinions.

6 Comments
2024/04/17
13:15 UTC

4

r/BadReads Weekly Hot-Takes: Or, Just Casual Discussion

BadReaders,

Welcome to our weekly thread for any and all instances of:

  • Literary Hot-Takes
  • Unpopular Opinions (about books & literature)
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • All-Around Unjerking
  • Review Apologetics
  • Casual Discussion

If you have a literary or bookish hot-take of your own (who doesn't?) feel free to air it here. Have an unpopular opinion about a book that you're too afraid to admit on any other thread? Post it here.

If you really need to get something off your chest about any of the posts from the past week or about the state of the sub, this weekly thread is the place to do it!

Get to unjerking, jerks.

- r/BadReads Moderator Team

9 Comments
2024/04/17
05:01 UTC

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