BOOK CLUB: Poll and meme

[tarigwaemir]

It's been about two weeks since the reading list went up, so while you're reading historical fiction, let's take a break to think about the next round's theme. I've used radio buttons instead of check boxes because, well, we can only have one theme for the next round, so please choose the theme you like best

Comments

[sub_divided]

Ugh, democracy sucks. How in the world is "places that don't exist" going to be anything besides random fantasy? Just because it's prettily worded and the first option on the poll *grumbles*.

(Plz ignore the crank in the corner. XD)

In answer to the meme: every book in a long-running series whose author died before it could be completed. Obviously!

[emblem]

Well now -- I mean, Thomas Hardy's Wessex doesn't *really* exist. So you have a ton more choices than you might think.

*pats* It's like the Constitution! You can take as broad or narrow reading of it as you, er, choose.

*ducks*

[tarigwaemir]

Currently a tie between "Places that don't exist" and "Love overcoming obstacles". I have no objections if you want to choose in favor of "Love overcoming obstacles" if you want to avoid an all-fantasy round. (Though I pledge to only recommend nonfantasy books for "Places that don't exist": it's difficult but possible. ^_^)

[sub_divided]

Ugh, don't make me choose! If "places that don't exist" could be any fantasy novel, "love overcoming obstacles (or not)" could be any romance novel. -_-; Either one is fine, I guess, though the end-game discussions will be very different: ideas about worldbuilding on the one hand, ideas about romance on the other? Either could be interesting...

[inner_v0ice]

I'd say the best books that never existed are the magical books that are described in fantasy, in which the reading experience is more literally magical than normal reading. For instance, the Book of Gramarye in The Dark is Rising, and I seem to remember something about a book in Voyage of the Dawn Treader as well, on the island of the monopods.