Then again, once you've revisited the list (following the link included in your email notification from GR) - and in fact, every time you refresh the list in your browser - that will 'free' the way for another email notification once the next comment is posted.

In other words, a notification you receive by mail may mean that only one person commented on the list, or one person posted a comment, another person responded, and a merry dialogue ensued. That's a great list, Alessandra, and you put so much work into creating it! I'll see about contributions as soon as I have a moment.Īs far as notifications go, even if you add a list (or group discussion thread, etc.) to your update feed, GR will only send you one 'comment' notification by mail until you visit the list the next time. So what's plain 'underrated,' ten thousand?) So many of my books have fewer than a hundred. I was surprised to see that 'really underrated' meant fewer than a thousand ratings.

(Actually, until these lists I hadn't paid that much attention to how many ratings books had. I'm happier putting up something good that hardly anyone has heard of yet than I am adding the ten-thousandth rating to something. One of my reasons for cataloging books here is to help make people aware of the great book choices that are out there. Wodehouse and Douglas Adams when my contemporaries all seemed to be reading Peter Benchley and V.C. I grew up on old Pogo and Charles Addams and Bill Mauldin cartoons, and I was reading P.G. 'Ĭome to think of it, I was never much in tune even with my contemporaries' reading tastes, and the books popular with my generation when I skewed young are not much found on my shelves. Lobstergirl wrote: 'Alessandra, it's because a) the readership on this site skews young, and b) even middle-aged and older readers aren't necessarily shelving or rating things they read a while ago.

Zero Point by Agustín Graham Nakamura