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Originally Posted by Nyssa
Umm no, its not extreme, its how I feel. Considering last month's selection, it does surprise me that "we" would be to go "negative" again this month. As to Romeo and Juliet: been there, done that, have no intentions of ever doing it again. Great work or not I don't like Romeo and Juliet and therefore would not seek out its like. I don't like to be unhappy, especially in my entertainment.
Yes, genres can and do intermingle, but the main theme of the work should be the genre in question. I believe Hamlet is stating that the books' main themes were NOT Romance. Romance seems to be a side dish, not the entree. Since this month's theme is Romance, then Romance should be the main course!
Not only that, in a book club where we already have two months dedicated to classic works, we really should try to find more modern works for some, if not all, of the other genres. If not, we might as well not list specific genres at all, or those who only want to only read classics should start a classics based book club.
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So you're saying we shouldn't simply go by what the majority of people want to read? We had nominations and voting fair and square.
I also really didn't like that Black Rain won last month but what could I do? The group spoketh.
I will slightly disagree with you about main course vs side dish. I think it should be up to us to decide what's appropriate. Anyone is allowed to object to a book and if enough feel it's not appropriate to the category the nominator can remove it. I wasn't too thrilled when a sci-fi book won the comedy month in 2011 (and I don't think anyone complained then), but them's the breaks sometimes.
Actually, I will defer to your own opinion on the matter from some time ago. You were discussing the six-month rule, but it seems equally appropriate in this discussion:
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Originally Posted by Nyssa
A book is only fully nominated after getting a 2nd and a 3rd. If people are not interested in reading it, or find it to be out of genre, then it will not get nominated. If it gets nominated, then there is a interest, and denying the nomination says that we do not care that there is an interest.
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