Book Criticker

[Bojangles]

I don't read as much as I want to and my excuse is that I'm afraid wasting all that time reading a book that I won't like. Anyone know of a site out there on the intrawebs that is like criticker, only a it's novel recommendations?

[Bojangles]

nvm, I forgot how good Amazon's recommendations are...there's probably no site out there that beats it.

[AFlickering]

if there was a book criticker i'd pretty much be sorted for life

and a music one for that matter

[KGB]

Rate Your Music is as close as it gets... It's not as accurate as Criticker, tough
Honestly, if Criticker would decide one day to expand to TV shows/books/music, I'll offer an helping hand with all I've got to give.

[Grit]

If I had to exapand the site I'd expand it into Games, Books and TV Shows with seperate sections for each which could be brought together in one main site. Music would work, but would be significantly more difficult to organise. Then again, sticking to just films definately has its advantages.

[TheAlliance]

Music is possble for sure (albums), but books? Don't forget there are many many many books out there (rrrright? ), it would be a real task to get the database filled with enough books before you can say it's ready to go online. It would help if you have a lot of volunteers, but i doubt they keep inputting those titles week in, week out for hours...

Here in The Netherlands we have some kind of rating site for albums, but they don't have a system like Criticker to see who else shares the same taste in music. *searching for the site* -> Well, it seems this dutch site expanded into Books and games .

Here are the toplists of Movies/Books and Games according to the dutch users:
http://www.musicmeter.nl/list/
http://www.boekmeter.nl/list/
http://www.gamesmeter.nl/list/

Those 3 sites have 115.000 albums, 4500 games and 9500 books in their databases, just to give you an idea .

[KGB]

I agree, books are very hard... Not only there are infinite books out there which can turn out to be very hard to verify if they even exist, but each country has it's own literature, and while some books make it internationally, most stay inside the border of their respective country.
I don't know about games, though, but music and TV shows can be very good... And don't tell me that each country has it's own TV shows and music artists, in this case it's much more universal than literature.

[TheAlliance]

Well, then you can always have filters to get rid of the non-english Albums for example, but then again some Albums i know are really good but not English.. Ah well.. something for later

[Bojangles]

Now that I think about it, a music criticker would probably be easier and cooler than a book version. btw, those site were pretty cool Alliance.

[Grit]

Books could be done, but limitations would need to be made. Even then I wouldn't think it would be tremendously popular.