I voted to kill three books, as I hated two of them (On the Beach and Blood Music, both of which I threw in the garbage--I'm not a fan of the human race getting wiped out by nuclear war or by alien viruses, especially alien viruses that compel you to merge your identity with others) and found the author of the third (Kate Wilhelm) quite tedious. I've tried reading Wilhelm's stuff in the past, and it always makes me feel that I'm being lectured to.

Maybe this can just be chalked up to my preferring happy endings.