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Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@priya.pages · 66 logs · 9 followers · 13 following
Empath · contemplative · interior · intimate
Demo account. Reads two books at once and finishes both. Rates films like a novelist would.
They want to feel it. Character, interiority, a face holding something back: if the work makes they care about a person, they are all in.
Where it goes wrong: A work can move you without being good, and you will defend it anyway.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Emotional intensity barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 66 rated titles.
Waves Won't Stop is the real thing. Serious in intent and in execution. Rarely does something land this completely.
One of the best things I have watched this year. It takes its time, and the patience pays off.
Mostly about the story.
I did not expect Blue Heron to hit this hard. Serious in intent and in execution. It takes its time, and the patience pays off. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
Mostly about the story.
Blue Backpack at the top of their game with The Berlin Apartment. More about who these people are than what happens to them.
Mostly about the performances, the story.
Karma: The Dark World is the real thing. A slow burn that rewards sitting with it.
Mostly about the story.
Two people who cannot say the thing, for three hundred pages, and it never once feels thin. Rooney's trick is that the silence has plot.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
A retelling that earns its own weather. The last hundred pages are as good as anything Miller has written.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Cruel in a way that dares you to call it manipulative, and I did, and then I kept reading. Yanagihara knows exactly what she is doing to you. Whether that is a virtue is the whole argument.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Priya Raman is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
