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Posted 2016-09-02 2:44 PM (#14262 - in reply to #14261)
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Weesam - 2016-09-02 1:19 AM

Sable Aradia - 2016-09-02 2:26 PM

Weesam - 2016-07-11 4:47 PM

Whoops, have I not marked Earth Abides as read yet? How slack of me. I think I read it back on 1 July. Liked it. Marking it off now, so consider me finished.


Congrats, Weesam! You and me, we did it the way I originally intended it, didn't we? I thought Earth Abides was a hell of a good book. Really glad I read it. And I struggled hard with The Last and First Men, but it won me over in the end.


It was tough for me doing it that way. I kept wanting to read ahead, and it was hard to stop myself and only read one a month. Got there in the end though. I can't do it this way for the next 12, as there is only one of them I haven't read, and I don't really want to do a re-read of the others just yet.

Last and First Men was very strange. I really am not sure what to make of it, but I do admire the author for writing it. I agree that Earth Abides was good. Much better than I expected given my general apathy towards the apocalyptic sub-genre.


I have read pretty much none of this year's list yet. Can't even find them in the library, so Amazon's gonna make money off of me this year. But by all means do it any way you want! Like I said, I think we're up to 12 years to read the whole list in this way. And I'm reading Starship Troopers before the end of this year anyway, regardless of the challenge, because I haven't read it for so long I barely remember it and I feel like it. I'm doing it for the Space Opera challenge instead.

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