Monday, March 31, 2008

SciFi meme from Breathless Mind

From Breathless Mind
Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror? I like it all...

Hardback or Trade Paperback or Mass Market Paperback? Mass Market paperback when available

Heinlein or Asimov?dunnu never heard of them

Amazon or Brick and Mortar? Amazon

Barnes & Noble or Borders? Catnap Books.. hardly ever get to major bookstores

Hitchhiker or Discworld?never heard of them

Bookmark or Dogear? bookmark when i remember mostly dogear

Magazine: eh

Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction?what.

Alphabetize by author Alphabetize by title or random? mostly by genre then as far as books by series pub. date

Keep, Throw Away or Sell? keep unless really bad

Year's Best Science Fiction series (edited by Gardner Dozois) or Years Best SF series (edited by David G. Hartwell)?never read them

Keep dustjacket or toss it? Keep.

Read with dustjacket or remove it? Remove.

Short story or novel?novel

Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket? neither Snape died Snicket was terrible.

Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks? when fall asleep, hoping to remember not to sleep on book so as not to drool on pages

"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? ohhh how to choose? definately dark and stormy night, creepier connotation

Buy or Borrow? BUY to the point that Iam always broke!!!

Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse? Browse or author recognition

Lewis or Tolkien? They're just about tied, I love the Chronicles of Narnia enough to read them over and over again and have multiple copies Tolkien is great as far as the Hobbit wasn't too crazy about LOTR but I did love the movies.

Hard SF or Space Opera? hard scifi

Collection (short stories by the same author) or Anthology (short stories by different authors)? Iislike short stories with a passion

Hugo or Nebula?awards matter little, they're not the true judge of books

.Golden Age SF or New Wave SF? eh

Tidy ending or Cliffhanger?if there's a possiblity of another book cliff hanger, but I'll prolly figure it out

Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?all times

Standalone or Series?either depending on the quality

Urban fantasy or high fantasy?high fantasy

New or used?doesn't matter although used I feel less guilty about destroying

Favorite book of which nobody else has heard? does it have to be scifi?

Top X favorite genre books read last year?
umm didn't read too many busy...

X favorite genre series? (Where X is 5 or less)
1)Vladmar
2)Dark is Rising
Top X favorite genre short stories? (Where X is 5 or less)see above comment on short stories

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I got lost in some of the jargon in this one - golden age SF? Huh? I'm not a fan of short stories either. If I really like a story, I want it to be at least novel length.

Breezey375 said...

I must admit quite a lot of this left me in the dust. so I just made up answers.. I hate short stories it's like the author was to lazy to finish it.