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pizzapizzamesohungry t1_j6ffj1m wrote

Reply to comment by fairymoonie in It Ends With Us Recent Criticism by hmacias25

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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