The Goodreads rating system is just fundamentally flawed. The range of rating for books is not 1 to 5 stars, it's 3.00 to 4.00 stars. Any book with any notoriety I've read falls somewhere between 3 and 4. The more ratings, the more likely this is. I find the rating system at best useless and most likely actively harmful.

Which is all besides the point. No one else can tell me whether I'll like a given book or not. I hate Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but it's a highly lauded story. Should I force myself to like it because people disagree with me? I can appreciate that people view the work different from me and sometimes enjoy reading actual reviews I vehemently disagree with. A written review is, anyway, much more useful when considering a book. Though I don't really read books based on reviews, I just try to find books that seem interesting to me in one way or another.

The star rating system can be disregarded offhand.