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Originally Posted by darryl
My impression is that the club currently tends more towards literary type choices, and has an aversion to science fiction, which does seem to be borne out by the choices so far. I offer no criticism about this. It is the expected and desired result of the voting system.
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Ha. I would say that this book club is filled with people who love science fiction and want to read it all the time! I suppose that's because I dislike it so much, and therefore I am hyperaware of it. Without looking back at the nominations, my impression is that somehow there have been science fiction choices in every month.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
When I'm asking folks to read a book that might well be outside their comfort zone, I hate to ask them to spend a lot of money on it. (And at least one major SF/F publisher is simply not available in the library.) Yes, there are older books that are SF, some even PD. But frankly, my tastes have mostly moved away from some of those older themes.
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At this point, if I have limited or zero interest in a book (SF or not), I won't commit to reading it unless it's available as a library audiobook at Overdrive or Hoopla. I skipped the Stephen Fry book because it wasn't.