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Originally Posted by Victoria
Same here, I’ve refrained from nominating SF/F because “...it probably won’t appeal to Catlady.” So I was quite surprised to read in an old thread yesterday that The Once and Future King is one of her all time favourites. So much for pigeonholes - they’re going back on my list of options  |
The Once and Future King,
The Last Unicorn, and
The Princess Bride are all much-loved favorites--I considered nominating the last two, but I don't know that there's much to analyze about them.
What especially makes my eyes glaze over in SF/F are weird character names and non-Earth (or far future Earth) settings. And too much magic.
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Originally Posted by Dazrin
You were just the clear example but not the only one. That is certainly part of it, but the other part is that most of the time it feels like the discussion will be better by choosing a book that is more ambiguous or that straddles more than one genre.
Going back to The Hobbit or The Martian. They both meet the criteria, but is there really that much to discuss that's new? Both of the ones I ended up with should have more in them that is new to discuss, at least from the outside. I haven't read The Alchemist.
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I would not have wanted to read any Tolkien again, ever. As for
The Martian, if my library had an audiobook, maybe.
I haven't read
The Alchemist either, but I was a bit tempted, as I liked the only Paul Coelho novel I have read:
The Winner Stands Alone (when I went to Amazon to check the title, I saw that it is currently in Kindle Unlimited). My recollection is that it was odd but quite compelling.