Book poll

[sholio]

I've been wanting to talk more about the books I'm reading on my journal, but I seem to suck at doing reading roundup posts, and besides, in-depth discussions are more fun anyway. So, which of these books would you like to see me talk about? This poll isn't really binding, but I'm curious how many of these books my f'list has read, since the more of you that have read a book, the more interesting the discussion will be.

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I'll probably think of a half-dozen more books I've read lately that would make interesting discussions after I post the poll...

I also dithered about whether to include the Bear book in the list, but I think it would make a particularly interesting discussion in light of recent Internet happenings, considering that one of the problems I had with the book -- which I nattered about at length to naye back in October or whenever it was that I read it -- was the cultural stuff ...

Comments

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in hearing about nearly all of those!

//waves shyly

Kindred is one of my favourite sff books....I tried reading Carnival, but bounced hard off it and found both protagonists very unsympathetic. I think hearing about cultural stuff in it would be v interesting.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

I adore Kindred! The only Butler I had read prior to that one was "Parable of the Sower", and while it was very well-written, it was so goddawful depressing that it took me a long time (much too long!) to try any of her other books.

The thing about Carnival is that it's going to be really, really easy to write up, because I wrote a bunch of emails to naye after finishing it -- I had a lot of things I really liked about the book, and a couple of things I really didn't like (one of which was, yes, that I found the main characters very uninteresting, though the supporting cast was quite awesome), and I've got all those thoughts nicely written out in emails already, so all I have to do is find the emails and work them up into a post.