This is a themed list. Do NOT vote for your favorites or your own work if the plot does not include a road trip and the target audience is NOT young adult. Because everybody around me loves Morgan Matson's "Amy & Rogers Epic Detour" so much, I want to find out, if there is a young adult road trip novel equally or better liked. Care to participate?
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Sep 10, 2010 06:51AM
Mary Pearson just released a Road Trip book, too--I think the title is THE MILES BETWEEN or something like that...
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I LOVE ROAD TRIP BOOKS (and actual road trips) :D Definitely one of my favorite subjects in YA novels! Just read "Amy & Roger's Epic Detour" this week . . . LOVE. One of my really close girlfriends and I are planning our own "epic detour" for the summer before college . . . and we're freshmen in high school.
I'll have a look. That's the problem with Listopia, that some contributers do not read descriptions or do not know how to start their own lists with slightly different topics. I even ecountered a list, where somebody changed the list title to make certain books qualify.
So. I deleted
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(one of the mcs is an attorney),
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from this list for not being Young Adult Fiction (you can reads classics or adult contemporaries at any age, that remains unquestioned).
In four young adult book descriptions (including the Laurra Ingalls one?) I did not find hints at road trip themes, but since I haven't read them I let them be.
Captaincow wrote: "I'm also not quite sure whether "The Lord of the Rings" is a Young Adult road trip series :S"Yes ... but they are on a trip and most people read those when they were young. I did not want to become too stringy.
Kelvin, I deleted the books about art, comics and typography and I don't think I have to elaborate. If you need help creating a list about a topic you are interested in ask anyone. It's easy.
I wouldn't take the doubles off because then some users' list will be affected. It happens when you add titles via search-on-your-shelves. We can delete Alaska, though. Thanks.
If I Stay is great, but no road trip story. Why do people keep adding their favorites without reading this list's decription? Cleaning up takes so much time, because it means I have to check each book description.
WHAAAAAAAT? Please tell me, this isn't real. 40 new titles on this list and most of them no road trip novels. *wail*edit: I've worked myself through half of the descriptions, but I give up for today. Hopefully Goodreads puts some other list on top soonish.
What a Trip! - The Life of a Featured List on Listopia.I love voting on Listopia lists and starting new lists makes me happy. I am a librarian after all. But I have rolled my eyes often when I joined Goodreads and each and every list - those about blue covers, those about green dragons, healing methods and frustrated secretaries - sported an edition of Twilight among the top five spots. These times have luckily gone by. And I have to admit that I also by accident skipped the fine print and added a book to a list where it didn't belong.
But I always clicked on a list and added titles to it because of its headline or because of the tags and not because it was ... well a list. A lot of users seem to do so quite regularly, which recently started to frustrate me. My Young Adult Rad Trip Novels list has been chosen by Goodreads as one of this summer's featured lists and consequently gets a lot of traffic. And since I really want that list to be a helpful collection, I am now daily donating time to weeding out newly added books from that list. In order not to violate Listopia rules I read every book description of the titles I am suspicious about. So far I have deleted books about drawing comics, creating typography, biographies about famous artists, Christian and not so Christian books about frustrated housewives and other middle-aged women in need of a new lover, books about "spiritual journeys" to your heart, to your past and to your self-esteem, unknown works by self-published authors desperate for a second or a third reader and lots of favorite young adult books that do not contain a road or a trip.
Dear authors (and dear authors' best friends), please do not vote your books into randomly chosen lists. At least take the time to select a fitting one. I promise, it is out there. And if you want to be more specific: Create a new list. Organise a giveaway, join a group that has a space for promotion. Whatever. I don't think anybody will read you book because it popped up in a list for the wrong target group.
Dear readers, please read first what a list is about, then vote. There are plenty lists called "The Best Book on this Planet" to vote your favorites in without thinking or reading too much. Do not use a themed list for that purpose.
Thaaank you. *hugs*The description if the last one sounds as if it takes place entirely indoors. Also
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Is "the hunger games" and "City of Bones" a road trip novel?
And can you put all these fantasy and dystopia novels in road trip category?
And can you put all these fantasy and dystopia novels in road trip category?
Hmmm. The question if a road trip has to be realistic fiction is somthing everyone has to decide for him- or herself, I think. Therefore I left the Tolkien books be and added "Blood Red Road" and "Released" to my own list. But I take out all the books that have no longer joutrney or trip in their description or their tags. lean towards deleting "City of Bones". I've read it years ago and I do not remember someone going on a trip that lasted longer then the short movement from point A to point B. But maybe I remember wrong. Do you remember the plot well?
I would say: Delete The Hunger Games and City of Bones. I mean, honestly, if you ask 100 readers: 'What is The Hunger Games about?' How many would answer 'A Road Trip' ?The problem is, that there is no exact definition of a road trip novel. I for example would probably remove The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Graceling and every book that does not include a group of people traveling by car for a larger part of the story.
I don't believe it has to be by car to count. My personal definition of the road to be travelled is less strict. But journeys of the mind or stuff like that is not what belongs on this list.Therefore I am really angry about the new additions by Grisham and about Obama.... There isn't even a faint connection to the subject.
What about
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and
. Has someone read one of these novels and detected a road-trip or at least a trip that happens not prior to the story but in the story? If not I would like to delete them.
I just started a young adult book club on here. We're currently looking for new members. We're also taking suggestions for our September books (we read two per month), and since we haven't read anything yet. You're free to suggest anything. We'd really like to have you as a member!http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...
'The Fault in our stars' By John Green is not a road trip book!!And 211 people have voted for this book? I don't get it!!
I know right, but there are other books that aren't remotely based of any kind of road trip. for example The Hunger Games,The Book Thief, On the Jellicoe Road, My Sister's Keeper. These are only from the books I have read.
And this The Edge of Never isn't exactly a young adult book.
And this The Edge of Never isn't exactly a young adult book.
Tanvir Hossain wrote: "I know right, but there are other books that aren't remotely based of any kind of road trip. for example The Hunger Games,The Book Thief, On the Jellicoe Road, My Sister's Keeper. These are only fr..."Yeah, I have noticed.
Then why they are adding these books to the group which clearly say it only allows 'road trip books'?
Uhohoh. I havn't cleaned up in here for a long time, it seems. A lot of people only read 'vote for your favorites'. And somehow they do. Without thinking. Or they click on titles others added randomly. I expected more web literacy from readers, too. But by and by my illusions have faded. I am grateful for every hint and will weed out the next time I am using a computer.
oliviasbooks wrote: "Uhohoh. I havn't cleaned up in here for a long time, it seems. A lot of people only read 'vote for your favorites'. And somehow they do. Without thinking. Or they click on titles others added rando...":-) Thanks for the reply :)
I love The Fault in Our Stars and it's one of my favorite books, but there is no road trip in it. There's a trip, but it's not a road trip. How does one delete books?
Cleo, you have to be a goodreads-librarian to delete books from lists. To become a librarian you have to apply here (http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/15...).I deleted The Fault in Our Stars from this list.
Thank you, Teccc! I have been checking GR mostly via phone lately. Cleaning up lists on an Android browser is pretty difficult.
oliviasbooks wrote: "What about
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, [bookcover:Island of To..."Rainbow Road absolutely has a road trip! That's the whole book. The one that should be removed from the list is Rainbow Boys. There's no road trip in that.
Removed several books toward the bottom of the list that have no road trip connections whatsoever - namely the Cassandra Clare titles, The Fault In Our Stars, To Kill a Mockingbird, Charlotte's Web, Nineteen Minutes, My Sister's Keeper, and Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank). If I wasn't familiar enough with a book to know if it had any road trip/"journey" connections, I didn't delete it.I also removed Rainbow Boys per Rainbowheart's suggestion.
Kate wrote: "Removed several books toward the bottom of the list that have no road trip connections whatsoever - namely the Cassandra Clare titles, The Fault In Our Stars, To Kill a Mockingbird, Charlotte's Web..."You are right: There has been a lot of random favorite stuff been added since the last time I weeded out. I took some adult thrillers, some short story collections and some classics off the list, but I am sure there is more that doesn't belong. It takes time to take a closer look, though. I still do not get it why people do not respect the themes of listopia lists.
My sister got the book "Amy and Rogers Epic Detour" and i took it from her because it looked cool,but i didn't think it would be good but it is an AMAZING book! I rated it and gave it 5 stars! I love it how both people change during this one little epic detour. I recommend the book "Amy and Rogers Epic Detour."
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Athira wrote: "'The Fault in our stars' By John Green is not a road trip book!!And 211 people have voted for this book? I don't get it!!"
That's so weird
Does anyone remember a road trip book about a girl who its a tradition in her family that once they are a senior they get to take this refurbished school bus on a road trip & pick like i think 3 girls and 4 guys? &theres this big celebration when they send them off. &the main girl ends up getting with one of the guys she chose that she didnt know very well. and the other friend gets with their guy friend& almost gets pregnant. They get in a bunch of trouble at some fireworks show for fourth of july too i think.
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