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FMK# 31: I heard it on the internet
The mysteries F winner was the cat detectives. I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. I have already read one of the stories in it, and there were not nearly as many cats as advertised. :( The K winner was the Garrison Keillor, which is helpful because it means I don't have to keep wondering if I want to read it or not, you people have informed me I don't.
I have not read any other new FMK this week because I have been catching up on comics and other stuff. Also I saw Thor 3! That was an EPICALLY silly movie. I approve. EPICALLY silly is the only register in which Marvel Thor stuff ever works and they don't hit it nearly as often as I'd wish.
Today's is a mixed batch on the rather nebulous theme of Someone On The Internet Said I Should Read This. Will the internet contradict itself? Let's find out!
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
I have not read any other new FMK this week because I have been catching up on comics and other stuff. Also I saw Thor 3! That was an EPICALLY silly movie. I approve. EPICALLY silly is the only register in which Marvel Thor stuff ever works and they don't hit it nearly as often as I'd wish.
Today's is a mixed batch on the rather nebulous theme of Someone On The Internet Said I Should Read This. Will the internet contradict itself? Let's find out!
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
Poll #19072 FMK #31: I heard it on the internet
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 61
Dawn by Octavia Butler (1987)
Homeland by Cory Doctorow (2013)
Half Magic by Edward Eager (1954)
Black Ships by Jo Graham (2008)
The Stepsister Scheme by Jim Hines (2009)
God Stalk by P. C. Hodgell (1982)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (anthology) by H. P. Lovecraft (1971)
First Test by Tamora Pierce (1999)
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (1956)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Ruseell (1996)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (2005)
Illuminatus! Part 1: The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (1975)
The Book of Lost Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien (1983)
The Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede (2009)
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I also have opinions on how to do nonsense, but there was also a long stretch of my youth in which I had very little willingness to make allowances for things like "genre" and "what a book is trying to be" and "what age is the intended audience" and so forth. (You will be shocked, no doubt, to hear that kid me was both strongly opinionated and extremely pedantic. It also took me quite a while to reconcile myself to the idea of film adaptations making any changes from the book, even for reasons of blatantly obvious logistics.) So I really should give The Phantom Tollbooth another try, to see if it was a victim of that in-between-age gap.