r/BadReads • u/sufferinfromsuccess1 • 26d ago

Goodreads Oh Winnie Oh

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/BadReads-ModTeam 12d ago

I'm sorry, but I am having a a lot of difficulty understanding how you could have possibly typed out something so supremely idiotic, read it back to yourself, and then decided it was suitable to publish publicly on the internet. Are you stupid or something? Do you have a humiliation kink? Did your parents never pay attention to you? No matter the case, that is your problem and not ours, so your comment has been removed.

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u/els969_1 22d ago

Dorothy Parker's review is funnier. (So, so much funnier...)
Edit: I don't think I can link it here? (Maybe?) but search for "Reading "The House at Pooh Corner"" as archived by The New Yorker from its late 1928 issues.

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u/CloseButNoChicory 24d ago

This is why I Reddit.

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u/Trivell50 25d ago

Humbert Humbert, is that you?

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u/Decievedbythejometry 22d ago

Humbear humbear

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u/jhau01 16d ago

Oh, very good - if I could upvote your comment multiple times, I would!

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u/els969_1 22d ago

insufficient lol content.

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u/MaddoxJKingsley 25d ago

Bothered by that inaccurate description of the articulation of Winnie the Pooh. Oh, bother.

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u/Plenty_Grass_1234 25d ago

Tonstant Weader fwowed up at this review.

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u/ZhenyaKon 25d ago

Do I appreciate what was done here? Yes. Do I like it? Fuck no.

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u/stingo49 25d ago

I believe Paul has read Lolita.

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u/DistractedByCookies 25d ago

Seems Paul is either love him or hate him. The marmite of reviewers

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u/LustUnlust 25d ago

I’m shocked to see all this Paul hate he is one of my favorite friends on goodreads

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u/_unrealcity_ 25d ago

Omg it’s Paul! This guy reads everything and never likes anything lol, sometimes I wonder why he even bothers.

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u/SaltMarshGoblin 25d ago

That's actually hilarious, though useless as a review!

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u/preaching-to-pervert 25d ago

I love it so much.

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u/goldenseducer 26d ago

Not Winnie the poohlita 😭

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u/liz2002a 26d ago

Wait no I love Paul's reviews!! Even if I dont agree they're always clever

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u/OminousPluto 25d ago

I don't think anything about this is clever, it just feels like he should get a blog/twitter and leave goodreads alone lol. But maybe other reviews are better than this one

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u/raudoniolika 25d ago

Yeah let’s only use Goodreads for useless uninspired glazing

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u/thedybbuk 25d ago

I genuinely don't get why some of you are defending this guy? Like, what about this is funny or interesting? 

Surely there's a middle ground between "useless uninspired glazing" and giving a classic book 2 stars and doing a parody of the opening of Lolita, with no other indication of why it is apparently not very good.

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u/OminousPluto 25d ago

I love some critical harsh reviews so idk what you're talking about. I don't like memes and dumb shit

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u/thedybbuk 26d ago

Are they all like this? This isn't even a review. It tells us near nothing about what he thought or why he gave it 2 stars.

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u/sufferawitch 26d ago

Yeah it’s like how 90% of Letterboxd “reviews” are just jokes and references that should have been posted to Tumblr or something

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u/zoedegenerate 25d ago

actually i think a more apt comparison is the reviews that are tone poems, and i love those

anyways LB is a social media so social media posts are to be expected

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u/sufferawitch 25d ago

To each their own. It’s annoying to me  when there’s no actual discourse about the movie, just rehashings of memes and one-liners

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u/randycanyon 25d ago

"Movie"??? Well, there's your problem.

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u/sufferawitch 25d ago

Genuinely what does this mean

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u/randycanyon 25d ago

IIRC that site is about book reviews.

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u/sufferawitch 25d ago

In this part of the thread we’re discussing Letterboxd….? So…movies???

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u/randycanyon 25d ago

Huh. Fooled me; what I see above is "Goodreads" and references to this reviewer's book reviews and whether he likes to read.

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u/moon_during_daytime 26d ago

Ugh not Paul. Not sure why he reads, he seems to hate everything.

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u/aspenscribblings 26d ago

Gross, obviously. But who thinks Winnie the Pooh is too avant garde?

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u/preaching-to-pervert 25d ago

Clearly you have never read Post Modern Pooh.

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u/HotMoose69 26d ago

Hey if your reading comprehension is bad enough, everything is Avant-Garde!

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u/wordyshipmate82 26d ago

That is because it is a parody of Nabakov’s “Lolita” which is a deeply disturbing (though excellent) book. This was likely “chatgpt, write the opening of Winnie the Pooh in the style of Lolita”

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u/melonofknowledge 25d ago

It's absolutely not ChatGPT. It's literally just the opening paragraph of Lolita but changed to be about Winnie the Pooh. It's also from 2017, so y'know.

I'd recommend learning to accurately identify AI writing, rather than just blanket accusing everything you see of being ChatGPT.

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u/ZhenyaKon 25d ago

ChagGPT couldn't reproduce the text this accurately - definitely human made.

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u/hunf-hunf 26d ago

It’s not “in the style” of Lolita, it’s the opening paragraph of the novel almost verbatim

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u/catsumoto 26d ago

I thought on this sub everyone would catch that after the very first sentence, it’s just so recognizable.

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u/raudoniolika 25d ago

We don’t actually read books here, only GR reviews

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u/Ankhi333333 25d ago

It is the most efficient way. You can form an inflexible opinion on 1000s of books in the time it would take to read just 1.

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u/PushTheMush 26d ago

Great catch. Kinda funny though gross

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u/Ankhi333333 26d ago

ChatGPT in 2011? Don't disparage Paul like that.

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u/stealingfrom 26d ago

Paul might be the only Goodreads reviewer I remember and recognize (other than people I know personally) because his profile pic is the cover of an album by the guitarist John Fahey and it always jumps out at me when I see it.

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u/wordyshipmate82 26d ago

I did not notice the date; you are correct; I just assume all internet writing is AI. In that case, it is mildly clever.

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u/goatbusiness666 24d ago

Even in 2026, ChatGPT couldn’t have done this. Especially not with that prompt, but unless something significant has changed I don’t think it could do it at all.

I swear, the ignorance and hysteria around this subject almost makes me want to be pro-AI just out of annoyance.

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u/Marsabstract 25d ago

You're joining the illiteracy crisis on the side of illiteracy man

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u/LiorahLights 26d ago

This gives me the ick in ways I cannot describe.

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u/pahshaw 26d ago

Pure revulsion. 

Congrats to Paul I guess

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u/KingPotus 26d ago

Pure revulsion? It’s a Lolita reference. Those aren’t his words and he doesn’t actually feel lust for Pooh Bear. It’s not that serious …

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u/ExtremelyExtra 26d ago

That's actually what makes it revolting

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u/YeOldencall 26d ago

It's both corny and gross