Rotten Tomatoes for Books

April 21, 2009 11:05 AM

Is there a website where it aggregates all the reviews of a book like Rotten Tomatoes does for movies?
posted by clueless22 to media & arts (5 comments total)

Metacritic used to do it, but they stopped a while back.
posted by milkrate at 11:07 AM on April 21

Bookmarks Magazine does this.
posted by cog_nate at 11:08 AM on April 21

Here's a MeFi post about Bookmarks, which is how I learned of it.
posted by cog_nate at 11:25 AM on April 21

It's much less methodical, but the Complete Review accompanies its own reviews with a table summarising 10-20 reviews of each book, excerpts from a few of those reviews, and a quick write-up of what it considers to be the review consensus. For example Arcadia; Middlemarch.

It mostly only includes books for which they have written their own review (which is currently around 2200 books), so you can't rely on finding any particular book, but it's very useful for the books they do have.
posted by severalbees at 11:35 AM on April 21

You can look up a given book on LibraryThing and see what reviews and ratings have been offered by people who own the book. But few enough of those a "professional" reviews: they come from anyone with a LT account.
posted by wenestvedt at 8:04 AM on April 22