50 Book Challenge

[shanmonster]

I haven't been reading nearly as much lately. So I'm gonna jump on board with this one. Let's see if I can do it. Rarr!

Oh yeah. The challenge is to read 50 books this year. Yup.

First up, I need to finish reading that piece of shit knightky gave me: Hush, Hush.

*shudders*

Comments

[valkryor.livejournal.com]

I have a thing for romance novels. I don't usually read them, but, on occasion, I'll pick one up and plow through it because I find a lot of the plot "twists" and other contrivances laughably bad. I will say this much though: romance novels are, at least, grammatically competent.

After borrowing and reading Twilight to see what the fuss was about (and really, what IS the fuss about?), I was more appalled by the lack of decent writing than I was of the actual story (which was also terrible, but less glaring to me). It strikes me, now, that that was only the start of the wave of poorly-written, poorly-executed, plot-holes-a-plenty, stalker-and-possessive-assholic-loves-of-colourless-and-empty-vessels "novels" that are being geared to teens.

Hell, if teen girls are looking for that kind of improbably twisty story, the Romance section is a much better choice. At least the female characters have something of a personality.

I feel your pain. If the book is not borrowed and your own, may I suggest throwing it whenever it gets to be too much? I don't normally advocate biblio-abuse, but this sounds like a good time to start.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Ive read a few books that made me hurl them, most notably by Mercedes Lackey and Anne Rice. We will see if this one ever gets my ire going so much.

At least the grammar and spelling are acceptable in this one. But in other respects, it is definitely a Twilight knockoff.

If you want some recommendations for reading...

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

This is my heavy-reading time of year, since my partner is getting literal boxloads of books as nominees for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. I just finished Yarn and liked it. You have to like sewing and/or fashion, though, I think. I got about twenty pages into The Dervish House this morning and am already hooked.

Re: If you want some recommendations for reading...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Fashionpunk. I've never even heard of that before. Interesting. Too bad the library doesn't have it. They do have Dervish House, though.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I think coming up with a genre name for two books by one author is just silly. Also, I am a leetle tired of the constant "insert-word punk" terminology as it trivializes the movements that have had considerable influence on the SF literary scene.

Jesus, I sound like a fucking snob, but ah well.

That said, I think Armstrong managed to create a world that is equal to Gibson's world of Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc. I don't know that I anticipate a bunch of other people jumping on his bandwagon, though, as happened with Gibson's books.

[krings-keep.livejournal.com]

At first I thought you said 50 books a month... and I thought WOAH couldn't do that...

Then I re-read it and it said 50 books a year...

Easy Peasy!!! I read about 4 paperbacks a week.

I am a voracious reader...

:-p

[megalith.livejournal.com]

Wow...that book looks as though it is beyond shite. I won't say that the reviews/your comment steered me away from it, as I doubt I would ever have been so inclined to pick up something with that cover anyhow (there's a kind of radar one tends to develop the detects poorly constructed Twilight-esque teen romances).

Good luck with your reading. (: