Okay. Following up from yesterday:
The books listed in the poll are all on my TBR list. Some I've been meaning to read for ages (Like I said, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Rebecca, but also Titus Grown -- I've wanted to read it ever since the cah-razy (wow, do I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers) Gormenghast miniseries. Oh, and the Sherwood Smith books, which I was just reminded of by the recent Shannon Hale interview.), some I've been wanting to re-read (the Joan Aiken books, the Prydain books, Feed, the Shirley Jackson), some I know I'll never get to without a kick in the pants (Airborn, Postcards from No Man's Land).
So there you have it. Winner takes all. Or, well, you know what I mean.
Airborn is pretty good. I was disappointed in the ending, just because something I was personally hoping would happen didn't, but my little brother loved it.
Sherwood Smith is generally awesome. I've read Crown Duel (both halves) and the Wren books, but my favorite piece of hers is a short story called "Mom and Dad at the Home Front", from the anthology New Magics. It's about the parents of children who disappear into fantasy worlds at night, and what they think of it.
Posted by: Naomi | 30 October 2007 at 10:59 AM
I've read a lot of these. How can that be?
Posted by: Lauren | 30 October 2007 at 11:25 AM
I cast my vote, but I'm not sure it took. If not, my votes were for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and the Joan Aiken trilogy, both of which I love beyond reason.
Posted by: Genevieve | 30 October 2007 at 12:10 PM
Nice. I'll keep it in mind when I decide for sure -- if it DID take, it should have changed the entire poll on your screen, so that you could see the current results. If it doesn't look like that, it probably didn't work. (I thought about going for the ENTIRE Wolves series, by the way, but I thought that might be a little too hardcore.)
Posted by: Leila | 30 October 2007 at 01:36 PM
The first time I read Crown Duel I couldn't get into it, then I read it again and loved it. Sherwood Smith also has a couple of short stories on her website that take the story further. Feed was kind of eerie, because I felt like it could really happen in a few years.
Posted by: Sarah | 30 October 2007 at 01:40 PM
I'm really begging for the Gormenghast. Wouldn't mind the Sherwood Smith. I've read just about everything else.
Loved Airborn.
Obviously loved the Wolves books but have read all of them 80 hundred times.
Posted by: cc | 30 October 2007 at 04:13 PM
Rebecca was awesome but, while I read it over a decade ago, I remember it pretty vividly. (Also, Maxim just didn't do it for me. He was okay, but he was no SETH!) I'm voting for Crown Duel. Everyone raves about it, but I've yet to get past the 1st paragraph. I need a little motivation to get into it.
Posted by: Elizabeth | 30 October 2007 at 10:01 PM
You haven't read Airborn? Quelle horreur!
Posted by: Shrieky | 31 October 2007 at 08:51 AM