&quot;Someone is being an ass on the internet&quot; and it&#x27;s OK because &quot;opinions&quot;. But it does touch upon one of more interesting problems. There is only so many years you have before you die and there are many more books than you can read and you will not know whether you like it or not before you read it because reviews are just too personal. Say you read an average of 100 books a year, that&#x27;s 6000 books and that MIGHT just get you through all those top 100s of this and that genre. And it&#x27;d be nice to leave some room for serendipity. If not for that I&#x27;d never read any Murakami. This is an unsolved problem and all that amazon and goodreads does is recommend you more of the top bestsellers (and let&#x27;s be honest, high street bookstores are even worse).