Book Ratings Are Broken

"Fun read." Five stars.

That is the entirety of my review for He Who Fights with Monsters 2 by Shirtaloon. Meanwhile, I also gave five stars to bell hooks' Feminism Is for Everybody, except that review is 2,516 characters long and covers intersectional feminism, the failures of liberal approaches to gender, and how reading the book made me uncomfortable in ways I needed - but had the same star rating. A 280x difference in the amount of effort I put into explaining myself. Whatever those five stars are measuring, they're clearly not measuring the same thing.

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