hey guys it's abi from autumn of pellinor and today i'm gonna be looking
at the lowest rated books on my goodreads shelves so i am copying
this from emma from drinking by my shelf i also
did the highest rated books check that out here and check out emma's
video obviously i'm just going through my read shelf on goodreads
sorting it by average rating last time i put it
normal this time it's in reverse i don't know those are the two options that
goodreads gives you and this one is going to take a little
more explaining than the last so the highest rated books were all books that
were already popular with a couple of interesting ones these
are not the first book actually has zero ratings i haven't rated it i just
marked it as read because i read it as a child but it has zero ratings so i don't
think that counts like can i count something that hasn't
been rated at all as a lowest rated book so i'm
gunna kind of look for ones that have actually been read a
bit more i do have some like really random ones
like um shakespeare the bard's guides to insults
and what is it bard's guide to abuses and affronts apologies
shakespeare and that hasn't been read by a lot of
people because like who's picking that up so i'm gonna ignore them
so the first book talking with psychopaths and savages by christopher
berry-dee i don't have this because i have lent it
to my boyfriend for him to read i gave it to him in
2017. i gave this two stars i did not enjoy
this book the subject matter as i said in my review on goodreads was incredibly
interesting i love this sort of thing my partner
actually has a degree in psychology and a master's in neuropsychology no
no something i don't know i'm a bad i'm a bad girlfriend
he doesn't know mine mine's a lot longer of a title but he doesn't know mine
so this has got a thousand and a half ratings a thousand and a half
so it is about this guy going and talking to psychopaths
and discussing things with them so it has got one and a half thousand
reviews it just wasn't written very well some of the cases that he talked about
it's i read this in 2017 it's been a while some of the cases that he was
talking about he didn't actually go speak to the individuals
whereas the entire premise of the book was that he's went to go speak to
these psychopaths and some of the like he would focus on a case where he hadn't
spoken to anyone in that case at all that was my main problem with it just
read the end of the review the author praised himself to ridiculous heights
this man's ego is the same size as donald trump's
like oooh! this man loves himself and it made the book so difficult to
read he kept self-congratulating and complimenting and that's not the
point of the book the point of the book was for you to go
and talk to psychopaths i don't want to know about you
i want to know about the psychopaths and yet this entire thing
was just boosting himself and because of that it was incredibly badly written
and really difficult to get through the thing that did get me through it was
that it is a really interesting subject matter and
it's a short book it's like 200 pages so i did speed through it in
that sense but i was very angry with this man i
remember reading it in the dark on a bus a replacement bus
service because i was meant to be on the train welcome to britain and i was just
angry reading it really angry it was a time next book is ghost stories
by whit taylor so i got this from netgalley
it has an average rating of 3.01 the last one was 2.77
this is gonna have been read less i think yeah so this only has 151 ratings
this was just kind of eh which is why it has two stars from me
this i read at the very beginning of 2018 which is why i'm checking my review
the comic was really all over the place and unorganised there
are some people who gave it five star and really enjoyed it
which is why it's right at a three star rating but for me
it was just disorganised and kind of boring next up
five on brexit island i have that am i gunna hunt it out am i gunna get it
no cause my kindle's on it and it'll fall five on brexit island i
gave this four stars i found it really funny i'm assuming you've heard of the
famous five most people have so it is a comedy a
parody of the famous five books by a man called bruno vincent and it is
laughing at brexit the reason that this, it's got just under
one and a half thousand ratings the reason that this is going to have been
so divisive is that it's about brexit yeah so
reading a couple of low reviews some of them are just that they didn't
like the writing style they didn't like the kind of parody of it
which is absolutely fair enough but a lot of the low reviews are why are you
talking badly about brexit just because it's a political book
it's just not gonna get a higher rating than 3.05 the fact that it's so neutral
i find kind of amusing then the next book is blood water by dean vincent
carter i got this book when i was a kid and
they never read it it's got 63 ratings that's it i gave it two stars
i really did not enjoy this book this actually has more high ratings than
low and it's got a 3.14 average it's a really interesting concept it's
like this creature in the water that has infected everyone well slowly
starts to infect everyone and kill everyone and it's like a horror story
i just didn't enjoy it i kept reading it because i wanted to finish it and it was
a short book 200 pages it's technically like a kids
book it just was kind of boring but yeah so
i have a feeling other people kind of felt the same that it wasn't that
interesting one more okay i haven't rated this one
on goodreads but i kind of remember what i would have rated at the time
i read it when i was
a teenager and it's just in case by meg rosoff
i would have given this three and a half four stars i would have clicked
four stars on goodreads at the time it's got three and a half
thousand ratings and it's got 3.21 as its average rating
again more people enjoyed it then didn't but it doesn't seem to be highly rated
people didn't like how it didn't seem to have a point
i don't really remember much about this book i just remember liking it it's this
kid who kind of like escapes his life and he renamed his
like he's called justin and it's just in case I can see why people rate it
lowly in terms of just thinking of the concept
but reading it at the time as a teenager i really enjoyed the book and i'm gonna
stop there i actually ended up doing like 10 maybe
technically more books for the highest rated but that is because a lot of them
were from the same series because i've read the ones from the same
series these were all different books and a lot of them aren't very highly
read i think none of them are highly read which i find
really interesting so the books that for me the books that got lower ratings a
lot of them were unknown which is an interesting topic uh
i don't think that unknown books are inherently bad
do not get me wrong the amount of books that i rave about
on this channel no one seems to read
i do i do not have that opinion but um it does seem to be the case that
these books are all like unknown ones i think it's more interesting to watch
emma's if you go check hers out because her
books are more read she works in publishing so
she has to kind of stay up to date obviously she can read what she wants
but she also kind of has to stay up to date for work
so she reads a lot more like known books than me just reading random crap that i
find so hers was really interesting to see
kind of what the known books were less the liked what's my first like
known book oh the first known
like non-obscure book on here is the casual vacancy by jk rowling
with 3.3 almost 300 000 reviews i gave this three stars i read this
quite young i read this when i was 17. reading the casual vacancy was kind of
odd for me i my mum didn't like me reading adult books when i was a teenager
she very much um like if a movie is rated 15 i could not watch it till i was
15. even in the house no and so she did not
let me read adult books until i hit 18. she was very like nope no no
so i read the casual vacancy at 17. i think the reason i got away with it is
because it's jk rowling and it was lent to her to give to me by
a friend at work so kind of that like person that she
knows was saying yeah that's fine for abi to read
and the fact that it's the person who wrote harry potter she was like okay
sure i gave it three stars at the time i found
it very confusing i don't know if this is because of my
age and because this was one of the very few adult books i
had read at the time ya books are structured
in a more simple manner because it is meant to be able to appeal to a
quite a wide range of quite a wide range in terms of age
uh the development of an 18 year old reading ya is different to a 12 year
old reading ya you need to aim for both of those
so that is what i had been reading whereas this adult book was aimed at
adults and i was confused it jumps around
all these different people and i kept getting lost and confused from which
viewpoint i was reading at but i did still
have an enjoyment of the book so that's why i got three stars i remember this
like even though it was quite a few years ago now like five six years ago
i still remember like i was so confused but i was still kind of enjoying it
so i'd be interested to see i don't own it but i would be interested to see if i
ended up like rereading it what i thought of it
now as an adult like it's only a few years later but there's
been enough developmental time enough experience with more adult books
i would be interested to see kind of how i approached it
as an adult than a teenager even though there's not
a big difference in terms of the fact that i read it and was confused
i can see why other people would rate it low i bet that there were a lot of
people like me who weren't adults who were reading it maybe
even younger than i was and that kind of more confusing
structure with viewpoints so many different viewpoints um would
confuse people more used to a ya genre but then also it could just be a bad
book i don't know i need to reread and those are the six lowest rated books
on my shelves the five lowest and then the first like
known one again watch emma's video it's much better done much better she's
better at the english too
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