I think you are right SciFiChick. And we all gave in to the stirring, but a little bit of ranting is fun, once we don’t take it too seriously, which i didn’t.

This person doesn’t know me or anyone else in this challenge.

Exactly Stephanie, I totally agree.

Reading is its own reward.

You said it Carl. Of course, it can also be its own punishment too

Sally, TV rawks! Well parts of it. Other parts hurt lol

I consider those lists merely as “suggestions”. A lot of them are puzzling with their choices of was is high art and what is trash…the same could be said about TV, movies, music!

Love the picture!!

I think one of the things Tuffy misunderstood was the word ‘challenge’. It wasn’t about racing to finish books. And the contests weren’t about rewarding people for reading fast or alot or anything like that. The contests I held were done so that I had an excuse to get great stuff into people’s hands because that is the kind of stuff I love to do. None of us needed motivation to read, we all would have been reading anyway. This challenge, like most challenges, are about the sense of community.

The only ‘contest’ that had to do with reading that may be viewed as me pushing what I like off on others was the Gaiman contest. And hell, I love Neil Gaiman and will take ANY opportunity to encourage people to give his work a try.

I don’t know who it was who said they read A.G. in three days but I feel safe in saying that their motivation for saying so was that they were excited about the book and excited that they were able to get through a fairly long book in such a short period of time…that is what annoys me most about Tuffy’s post…she in no way considers the spirit of the individuals involved in this. She doesn’t take the time to consider that the majority of readers of any genre are passionate because they make connections with the books, the books change their lives in small or large ways, the books bring entertainment and joy to them and they long to share that and make a connection with others.

I’ve seen this phenomenon at sci fi and comic conventions. A divergent group of people get together who may, under other circumstances, never give each other a second look and they share things from deep inside themselves and form such a sense of community all because of something they are ‘fan-ish’ about. It is amazing and gives one a wonderful sense of belonging. That is certainly what my blog is all about, especially with the challenges, and I would assume that is why the rest of you blog as well.

Tuffy and Trite just don’t ‘get it’..or more likely they do but choose not to online to get a rise out of people. Reading is its own reward. All the challenges and contests do is give us a place to focus our attention for awhile while we read so that we can share and bond and enjoy each other’s online company.

Exactly! That is why I love him also.

Thanks for popping over to Kildare today!

Samulli, “And who the hell is that person to tell me what to goddamn do?” I totally agree. That was my major problem with the post. Hate fantasy books all you want. Just don’t tell me I can’t enjoy them. And you are totally right, it really isn’t worth the effort to get worked up about it

Four whole days Livewire! let the pointing and laughing begin

That’s odd Kailana, the missing submit button, not that you read fantasy, hope it doesn’t happen again.

I must give it a read at some point dew. As I said, I have read some Tepper before, and enjoyed it but I always have to try to ignore the preachiness of it.

You too Danielle