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| Forum Thread for this Challenge. 6 participants so far.
Perhaps the name is putting people off. And here was I hoping that it would elicit a sympathy join. I guess that ploy never works. |
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Location: Great Lakes, USA | Does being part of a series count as being on a list? That's a WWEnd list, so I wasn't counting books that were in a series.
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Location: Austin, Tx | justifiedsinner - 2015-01-07 10:39 AM
Perhaps the name is putting people off. And here was I hoping that it would elicit a sympathy join. I guess that ploy never works.
Reading your post I was forced to think, "Why haven't I joined the challenge?" which let to the realization that I couldn't think of much crossover potential with my other challenges (of which a couple are explicitly award challenges).
...which led to this...
Other challenges with a lot of crossover-potential with this one:
2015 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge
Clear the Shelves
2014 LGBT Speculative Fiction Challenge
2015 Read Around the (SFF) World
Detective SFF Challenge
Fantasy: Choose a Decade
In Translation
Read the Sequel 2015
Somewhere Out There
Space Opera 2015 Challenge
The Science Fictional Solar System Reading Challenge 2015
The Weirdness
Sub-Genre Focus
...so I'm joining, only a little out of sympathy. (and I hope that my list helps others see that this could fit into their existing challenges) |
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| daxxh - 2015-01-07 12:11 PM
Does being part of a series count as being on a list? That's a WWEnd list, so I wasn't counting books that were in a series.
I would go by the little red and black boxes by the book's cover page. If it hasn't got any of those it counts as Unloved. So series wouldn't count.
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Location: Alief, TX | I'm crossing this over with a lot of the books I'm reading for the Gaslamp Fantasy challenge. |
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA | I don't think the title's off-putting. I think that it gets harder to find books for the challenge the more lists are added. I picked up a bunch of used paperbacks, most of which are now in the defining books of the decades lists, sigh. I still may join this challenge later this year as I plan to read some of Tolkien's posthumous works and some more of Norton's Witch World series. Also, I noticed a few folks added some books from last year. I thought about doing this, but they may end up with award nominations as this year progresses, double sigh. ;-) |
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| spoltz - 2015-01-09 10:21 AM
Also, I noticed a few folks added some books from last year. I thought about doing this, but they may end up with award nominations as this year progresses, double sigh. ;-)
That is a good point, I hadn't thought of it! I will try to avoid books that haven't gone through awards season yet 
That said - i'm finding myself reading more "unloved" books than award winning/part of a list this month, it looks like. |
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| Yes, I figure I'm going to have this problem with The Martian but for now it's in. |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | I couldn't wait to join this challenge. The crap I love to read is never on the lists and has never even been considered for awards! This is the challenge for me! |
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Location: UK | Badseed Girl,I am the same,my guilty pleasure is urban fantasy,which is the outcast for the most part still on WWEnd. Lately a few authors have been added( and as a result I was able to add the best part of 80 books to my shelf! lol),but many are not on the site yet. People like Thea Harrison,Nalini Singh. I had thought of doing a challenge,calling it Denizens of the Darkness,covering vamps,werewolves,demons,etc,but when I looked not a single book out of 20 I am reading this year was on WWEnd. My time here is limited,I didnt feel up to spending a lot of time asking for books and authors to be added. so I gave up the idea. I did think of just doing the Subgenre challenge,picking UF,but again most of the books werent on the site.Even in the case of Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid series only 3 of the 7 books in the series are listed. Got too much on my plate already to spend a lot of time asking for books to be added. I already have about 70 books listed for challenges,better leave well alone.
Mind you,if we want more members,getting UF/PNR readers onside is a good idea. They are active,vociferous,read a load of books and love to chat about them! On Goodreads and Shelfari they always have the most active groups around |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | Dusty, Throw your list up on this thread. I am an Uberuser and I will work through it. I can add authors and novels. I just got my laptop back so I will be able to do more on the site again. I work nights and am working 56 hours a week so it may take me some time, but I will get through the list if you post it. |
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| Update for Reading Levels, you can go from Timid to full-blown Misanthrope. |
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Location: SC, USA | Nice Categories! |
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| Rhondak101 - 2015-02-01 1:27 PM
Nice Categories!
I'd say thank you but it's one of my mumble-to-myself-in-a-dark-closet days. |
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA | I added Andy Weir's "The Martian". It looks like it can't be nominated for anything since it was self-published in 2011. |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | I might add the martian to my list. My library even has this one already! That is a miracle in itself. |
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Location: New Zealand | I'm finished. Thanks for a fun challenge. One challenge down, 23 to go. |
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Location: UK | Congratulations,Weesam! You are on a roll. Keep it up. |
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| Congratulations! |
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Location: New Zealand | It's interesting that the Unloved was the first challenge I finished. I guess there was something about those 'unloved' ones that called to me. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Weesam - 2015-04-04 12:10 AM I'm finished. Thanks for a fun challenge. One challenge down, 23 to go. 270 days early? Now you're just showing off  Congrats! I like how you say "23 to go" when you know some more challenges will pop up later that you'll just have to join... |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | Congrats Weesam! I also love the "unloved books" the best. |
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| Administrator - 2015-04-05 8:30 AM
I like how you say "23 to go" when you know some more challenges will pop up later that you'll just have to join...
I joined the challenges for the first time this year and already you know me so well!  |
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Location: New Zealand | Ah, that dastardly log out got me again!! Why? My work computer always keeps me logged in, but my home computer logs me out every time. Wish I could figure out how to fix that.
Anyway, that was me above. |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | The log out gets me also. Mostly when I enter wwe from my email. |
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Location: SC, USA | Yes, I am having to log on almost every time I come to the site. I've unchecked and checked the "Remember Me" box, but no help.
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Location: Middle TN, USA | Ok I have a small dilemma. I finished The Girl With All The Gifts which met the Unloved criteria, but on April 8th it was nominated for 2015 Clarke. So should I take it off my unloved list and replace it?? I read tons of crap, so I'm sure I have another unloved out there somewhere in my reading lists. |
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Location: Great Lakes, USA | Badseedgirl - 2015-04-10 5:30 PM
Ok I have a small dilemma. I finished The Girl With All The Gifts which met the Unloved criteria, but on April 8th it was nominated for 2015 Clarke. So should I take it off my unloved list and replace it?? I read tons of crap, so I'm sure I have another unloved out there somewhere in my reading lists.
I had that problem last year with the Second Best Challenge. I replaced it. I've been holding off on putting some of the 2014 books on the Unloved Challenge until the award nominations are done. |
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| I figured I'd have the same problem with the Martian but I guess it's not eligible for any (so far). |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | I replaced it with Jack the Bodiless by Julian May. Written in 1992, there will not be any awards for this novel! LONG LIVE THE UNLOVED!!!!! |
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Location: SC, USA | I had added Emma Bull's War of the Oaks for Second Best and then figured out today that it is ineligible because it won the Locus First Novel Award that was only recently added to WWE.
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Location: Middle TN, USA | Burned again. Waistcoats and Weaponry was nominated for a locus ya. Darn it, the first two were not even in the running. I have replaced it already. |
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Location: New Zealand | And anyone who picked The Martian for this challenge might have to pick again, it's a nominee in the recently announced John W Campbell awards. |
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| Yeah, I thought I'd have to. Down by one. |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | I am planning to finish this challenge by the end of July. I have a plan! |
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Location: Fort Myers, Florida USA | I took all the genre books from my library wish list and put them on my WWEnd Reading List. 16 books. None of them are unloved. I haven't been paying any attention to whether or not a book fits any of my challenges. Looks like I'm going to have to make a an effort to find unlisted books so I can complete this challenge |
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Location: Middle TN, USA | I finished (finally)
The Unloved I loved for this challenge were as followed:
Dust Land: Blood Red Road - Moira Young
The Culled - Simon Spurrier
The Death Cure - James Dashner
Exit Kingdom - Alden Bell
Hollow City - Ransom Riggs
Infected - Scott Sigler
Insurgent - Veronica Roth
The Last Policeman - Ben Winters
The Eternal Night - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Partials - Dan Wells
The Unscratchables - Cornelius Kane
I really enjoyed this challenge because I read several far from "award winning" novels each year and at least here I can give them a little respect.
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2015 The Unloved