I am pathetic

[susandennis]

About 1995, over the span of about 3 months, I paid good money for books that once I started reading them, I realized I had read them before. It happened about 3 times in a row. I had this shiny new website that needed content so I figured book reviews was as good as any and I started a list of all the books I read, complete with little reviews. Many years later, I moved the list over to Goodreads.com where I keep it up to this day although I do not read nearly as much as I used to.

I have 762 books that I have read on the list today and 73 that I have listed as reject. I *thought* I checked every time before I picked up a new book to read - particularly if I was paying for it... But...

I finally gave up this morning on a book I had bought. I just could not slog through it. I went to goodreads to mark it as a reject where upon I discovered that in 1998, I read it and LOVED it. What.Ever

Today I'm starting the latest Michael Connelly. It will not be a reject - at least I know that for sure.

Comments

[viridescence13]

That's more than a little funny. I can't laugh much, though; I've done the something similar twice in the past year. I've seen a book and thought, hey...I should read that. Then about 20-25 pages in I realize that I've read the damn thing before. And in both cases, I didn't like it that much the first time! I have way too many new things to read to re-read crap!

[susandennis]

However... my brother reminded me that I had the opposite happen recently as well. I finished a book that I thought was spectacular and went to add it only to realize in Goodreads, it was on my reject list!

I'm am a goodreads failure... but that won't stop me

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

I'm really bad about doing that with movies, both DVD and Blu-ray. I finally bought dupes enough that I keep a list on both my cellphone and my iPod, and it gets consulted before any purchases are made.

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how radically we change over the years.