It's Friday again, and this means it's time for Follow Friday. There has been a slight change to the format, as now there are two Follow Friday hosts blogs and two Follow Friday Features Bloggers each week. To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:
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- Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments.
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This question poses a serious problem for me. Not because I have to choose between a favorite book and hundreds of mediocre ones, but because I would have to choose a favorite book to compare the option of mediocre books with. Would it be The Lord of the Rings? Dune? Creatures of Light and Darkness? Foundation? The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Dhalgren? There's no way I could choose just one.
So I won't. In my experience, most books are mediocre, and I read them anyway, partially because there's no way to tell the mediocre ones from the good ones without reading them. Or at least trying to read them. And I have piles and piles of books to read. So given that I already read a hundred or more mostly mediocre books each year, I guess it wouldn't be too much of a burden to take that route.
Apropos of nothing concerning the Follow Friday Question, here is a link to the webpage of the Forty-Seven Society.
Go to previous Follow Friday: You Have Forty-Six Chromosomes. Unless You're a Mutant. Or a Chimpanzee.
Go to subsequent Follow Friday: Julius Ceasar Defeated Pompey in Forty-Eight B.C.
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It was certainly a difficult question, wasn't it? I understand why you would find it too difficult to answer it.
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@Stepping Out of the Page: But I thought I did answer it - I'd choose the hundreds of mediocre novels.
ReplyDeleteOoh, you get right to the point! Which book to get "sick" of?! Hitchhikers is great, and all, and I love quoting it, no problem, but... only?! My FF: Colorimetry
ReplyDeletenew follower and I enjoyed reading your reasoning . here is my FF and a Giveaway http://totallybookedsolid.blogspot.com/2012/02/follow-friday-plus-giveaway.html
ReplyDeleteHopping through. I can't choose just one favorite book but I'd love to re-read all my favs.
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@Burgandy Ice: My thoughts exactly, but I have the added problem of simply not being able to choose which book I have read I would consider my favorite. There are so many good books, it is too hard to choose just one.
ReplyDelete@Totally Booked Solid: Thank you. I try to give the best answers I can to these Follow Friday questions.
ReplyDelete@Alison Can Read: I love rereading my favorites, but there are so many new books that I haven't read already that when I do I always feel like I'm missing out.
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