My book score is as follows:
100-90%-Perfect Books that fall in this rating have suspenseful plots, plenty of action, and believable characters.
I highly recommend this book to everyone!
89-80%-Terrific Anything in this category has believable characters and medium action, but a few flaws.
79-70%-Great These books have good values and mysterious plots, but noticeable just. . .blah that keeps it from anything better
69-60%-Good An overall good book, but it won't keep you entertained for more than a month.
59-50%-Medium It's not good, it's not bad, but if it's 55+, the good is over the bad.
49-40%-Down There The author apparently did not use his or her's full potential, or they wrote it when they were hyper.
39-30%-Bad--Just Bad Based on it, try to stay at least 250 feet from this book.
29-20%-Awful They just had a checklist of what makes a Hardy Boys book and checked down it, so nothing special.
19-10%-Stay Away Oh, no! It's almost there, at . . .
9-0%-Against the Law Low down stinker! Don't read it!
P.S.
The idea is for you to post your grading levels for books.
You should post in the Top Ten Casefiles (http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/forums/index.php?topic=817.0) topic sometime :)
I can't find any ANY-WHERE! :(
Any what? Casefiles? I got a couple from AMazon. Try there.
OK, and I think there's a few in the main branch of the county's library system.
And before we swing TOO off topic, the purpose is to post a review and grading system for books.
Us? I just do 1-10.
Let me just quickly suggest eBay and Bookfinder.com to find Casefiles.
So, I don't really consciously grade books. But the main things I look at is the believability, originality, and writing style.
And I guess I generally/informally break it into three ranks: not that good, mediocre, and excellent.
So the general feeling of the house is that not to many people use a grading system :(, but we've only tested a few.
I use 5 star rating system. I've used it in the polls in the Graphic Novel board.
So I see, so I see.
Brother Against Brother Gets an Excellent, 4 Star, 10 rating from me. I hope that covered all of the different grading systems lol
Going by ken10's rating system I would have to give Cave Trap a 1% Against The Law rating; Aside from Frank washing a rope...there is nothing else that is interesting in the book.
Yeah...washing a rope! (shakes head)
Did he iron his socks, too?
Quote from: tomswift2002 on October 19, 2009, 07:35:15 PM
Going by ken10's rating system I would have to give Cave Trap a 1% Against The Law rating; Aside from Frank washing a rope...there is nothing else that is interesting in the book.
Yeah...washing a rope! (shakes head)
Thank you for using my rating system.
NOTICE!
I am currently working on a new rating system, and hopefully it will be up here by November 2009!
Thank you for the bday wishes! I don't know to reply when I got your message. Sorry!! Hope this gets to you!
My rating sytem:
10: Only goes to the best books. Example: Hot Wheels
9: A very good book, but has some small problems. Example: Murder At The Mall, and Wanted, the only UBs to get a rating above 6.
8: A great read, but not the best. Example: Bad Chemestry
7: A fun read, but there's no harm in skipping it. Example: Mystery Of Cabin Island
6: Good, nothing else, the book has a major problem. Example: Extreme Danger
5: Decent, may be good if you are fan of the topic the book focuses on, like for Day Of The Dinosaur, young dinosaur fans may like it, but not much other people.
4. Half Decent: This book is best left to people who want to read every Hardy Boys book there is, and only a few people will enjoy it. Example: Shock Jock
3. Bad: Avoid, chances are you are not going to like this book. Example: Murder House trilogy
2. Really Bad: This book is just awfull, snd should not have money wasted on buying it, unless you want to use it as firewood. Example: Haunted, Cold Sweat
1. Garbage: This book is trash, the plot is dumb, there's no action, and four year can figure who the bad guy is before Frank and Joe do. Example: Dead Man In Deadwood
0. Why does this book even exist???: Only 3 books have gotten this rating: Nancy Drew: The Flying Sucer Mystery, Hardy Boys Casefiles: Survival Of The Fittest, and the UB Rocky Road. Avoid these three books at all costs!
And ladies and gentlemen--boys and girls: here it is!
10.-Perfect
9.9-9.0-Excellent
8.9-8.0-Well Done!
7.9-7.0-ATAC Field Agent
6.9-6.0-ATAC Trainee
5.9-5.0-Moderate
4.9-4.0-Poor
3.9-3.0-Disgusting
2.9-2.0-Weakling
1.9-1.0-Awful
0.9-0-Against the Law
Well, whaddya think?
Just so you know, the BRS (Book Rating System) is now open to all members, me being the admin.
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on November 12, 2009, 07:36:34 AM
My rating sytem:
10: Only goes to the best books. Example: Hot Wheels
9: A very good book, but has some small problems. Example: Murder At The Mall, and Wanted, the only UBs to get a rating above 6.
8: A great read, but not the best. Example: Bad Chemestry
7: A fun read, but there's no harm in skipping it. Example: Mystery Of Cabin Island
6: Good, nothing else, the book has a major problem. Example: Extreme Danger
5: Decent, may be good if you are fan of the topic the book focuses on, like for Day Of The Dinosaur, young dinosaur fans may like it, but not much other people.
4. Half Decent: This book is best left to people who want to read every Hardy Boys book there is, and only a few people will enjoy it. Example: Shock Jock
3. Bad: Avoid, chances are you are not going to like this book. Example: Murder House trilogy
2. Really Bad: This book is just awfull, snd should not have money wasted on buying it, unless you want to use it as firewood. Example: Haunted, Cold Sweat
1. Garbage: This book is trash, the plot is dumb, there's no action, and four year can figure who the bad guy is before Frank and Joe do. Example: Dead Man In Deadwood
0. Why does this book even exist???: Only 3 books have gotten this rating: Nancy Drew: The Flying Sucer Mystery, Hardy Boys Casefiles: Survival Of The Fittest, and the UB Rocky Road. Avoid these three books at all costs!
Nice!