Weekend reading

[nanila]

What are you planning to read this weekend? Everything counts! Menus, maps and mysteries included.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Really REALLY need to do Hugo reading.

[fred_mouse]

*sympathies*

That was me last year. I gave myself permission to give up on any book that caused me to value housework (or various other procrastination heavy tasks) more highly than keeping reading!

[miss_s_b]

I've just got two novels to go; everything else done

[fred_mouse]

\o/

Do you have an opinion on the quality of the slate?

(I decided not to read them this year, because I'm overcommitted elsewhere, but I'm eagerly following comments and discussions)

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, I think that most of the things on the slate are actually, objectively, rubbish, and the reason stuff like that wasn't getting voted for was not due to political correctness or whatever, it was because the kind of stuff that they like is actually, objectively, rubbish.

And this is not me coming at it from some nancy lefty pinko handwringer perspective (although, you know, chair of my local Liberal Democrats and on the exec of LGBT+ lib dems, so I AM a nancy lefty pinko handwringer) it's just that the stuff they've nominated is so BORING and badly written and unoriginal. I don't want to read the same story I've read a thousand times before, I want to read something new and different.

[fred_mouse]

pretty much what I was expecting then - there was the one item on the ballot last year that I identified as having been put there in a like manner, and it was dreadfully written. I didn't even get far enough through to decide whether the plot was any good!

.. I want to read something new and different.
Yes. My expectation with the Hugos is that at least I'll read something new *and* worthwhile, because I don't have enough time to read all the dross.