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fairymoonie t1_j6exbx2 wrote

People just like criticizing everything. It’s a trend to be a hater

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pizzapizzamesohungry t1_j6ffj1m wrote

But don’t you sometimes want to hate on stuff that is getting popular if you feel like there are thousands of better books? I read part of one Hoover just bc soooo many people recommended it. I am not snobby about books, but anyone who recommended this to me kind won’t be taken seriously for a while.

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AtraMikaDelia t1_j6fimrb wrote

It is natural, but it isn't going to make anyone read the thing you are talking about. There's a few niche books I like to recommend but I rarely if ever preface them with 'these are so much better than XYZ popular book, which is garbage', even if I do think that.

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pizzapizzamesohungry t1_j6fkrxr wrote

Makes sense, I try to recommend sort of similar alternatives if I do, but I’m sometimes I have to find out more about what people like in certain books.

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