I’ll admit, I can’t stand the five star rating system, especially for books. Actually, it’s not the rating system itself that I mind as much as the impact these ratings can have on a book’s ability to fail or succeed.
For one, the enjoyment of a book boils down to personal taste, which is both subjective and fickle. Not only is there a broad spectrum of individual tastes, but one’s individual tastes can vary over time. There are books I’ve started and put down because I wasn’t into them for some reason, but then picked up later and ended up loving them.
