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Location: SC, USA | Today the 400th book was entered as read: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness posted by jfranz  |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Rhondak101 - 2012-07-09 9:48 AM Today the 400th book was entered as read: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness posted by jfranz Hear her! Hear her! I like that we're up to 144 readers and 140 reviews too! AND we're only halfway through the year. Well beyond our expectations. Consider this a virtual high-five! |
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Location: UK | tCongrats to everyone involved,and many thanks to th dmin who hve worked so hard to make this a fabulous site.I>ts going from strength to strength |
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Location: UK | And no-one has finished yet, surprisingly. There are a few people on 10 and a few on 9, and that's it.
(I say we should shun the overachievers ;-) )
I was trying to space them out, at one a month, but I've fallen behind thanks to this year's Hugo ballot. |
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| Its a great idea. Its been fun to mix in some classics with my other reading. |
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Location: UK | Dear me! Dr Nefario wants to shun the overachievers.Only here for 6 weeks and already someone wants to send me to Coventry.....sigh...... |
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Location: Florida | Thank you ADMINS - This has been (I mean is) fun and it gives me some incentive to read some of the classic books that I haven't gotten around to. Although It might be a little early, but would love to have another reading challenge in 2013 (maybe SF/Fantasy Masterworks? )
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Location: Dallas, Texas | ILikeMaps - 2012-07-11 8:38 AM Thank you ADMINS - This has been (I mean is) fun and it gives me some incentive to read some of the classic books that I haven't gotten around to. Although It might be a little early, but would love to have another reading challenge in 2013 (maybe SF/Fantasy Masterworks? ) Thank you for your participation. I think many GMRC readers are catching up on those classics they've missed. I certainly am. Finally going to Philip Jose Farmer! As for next year's challenge we're leaning towards the same format, 12/12/6, but using the Guardian list for book selections. It's one of the more challenging lists on the site with many books that push the traditional boundaries of SF/F but also enough genre classics for folks that want to stay in the genre sweet spot. Nothing is written in stone yet and the SF/Fantasy Masterworks would make a good challenge too. Lots of time to consider alternatives for next year. |
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Location: Grootfontein, Namibia | A highlight of the GMRC for me is Hothouse. Just to prove the point about those classics that would have otherwise been missed. I look forward to a continuing reading challenge, whichever way it's decided for next year. I'm sure my upcoming corporate retirement and pending farming activities will still allow time for my reading obsessions |
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Location: Florida | Guardian list? -- umm (takes a quick break and quickly follows the link, cause that is a list he hasn't heard of before), works for me Actually I was just expressing my encourgement to you guys to do another one next year. What you choose is of lesser importantance because I have every confidence that you know far more about the book lists than I. Thanks Again |
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| The Guardian list (or Grauniad as it's know in the UK for it's frequent typos) would be most interesting I've only read half of them and have 9 on my TBR. |
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Location: Washington, DC | I just joined a couple of weeks ago and I'm really enjoying it! There are a few GMs I have not read at all, and this is a good way for me to 'discover' them. |
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Location: UK | Hi, alchemist,thank you for joining us! This is such a good group,with so many good lists,the blogs etc.And may I say I just read your fabulous review of Farmer's book,and it sadly confirmed my impressions of Farmer as style over substance who has dated rather badly.Oh well,lots more fish in the sea! |
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Location: Washington, DC | Just wanted to say that I didn't write the review of Farmer's book, that was Jeremy Frantz (jfrantz). |
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Location: UK | Oops,apologies to Alchymyst and Jeremy for mixing you up.I see The Forever War is one of your favourites.I have just finished it and am digesting it,but its not quite what I was expecting.More later,probably.Rushing off now to collect my 3 year old granddaughter from 8 miles away,and will have her all day,probably others too,since its now the long summer school holidays.Computers and reading have to take a back seat in the chaos! lol |
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Location: Florida | Oh, I'm very behind the times here, but I'll just add that this has been my favorite challenge of the year by far! I really like the idea of a different list for next year's challenge too. And though it doesn't have much to do with me, I'll count the 400th review as a feather in my cap ;-) |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | @jfrantz: This is my favorite challenge too. Certainly you can stake a claim on helping us get to over 400 books read and 163 GMRC reviews! Speaking of reviews, we lost a July review in the move to the new blog so I restarted the GMRC July Review Poll to be fair to everyone. If you voted before, you'll have to go back and vote again in the new poll. Thanks to everyone for all the great support! |
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| Finally finished my challenge with The Dispossed by LeGuin. Now I'm trying to fill in the holes for the other Grandmasters that I haven't read yet. This has been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to tackling the Guardian list next year. |
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