One's Gotta Go: A Game

[WTEK]

Ugh, this is hard but I think I'd go with Farseer Trilogy. I liked the first book but then I thought they got worse and worse as it went on. And I like assassin stories. But something just rubbed me wrong. It's been a while so I can't even tell you what it was lol.

I love ASOIAF so I won't vote for that even if he'll never finish it and Brandon Sanderson is one of my favorite authors. I guess Harry Potter would be my second option to get rid of, but it did get tons of kids to start reading supposedly lol. And everyone in my gaming either is or was (until her anti-trans statements) a huge fan of the series.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

One's gotta go:

1. New book smell
2. New book spine crack
3. Old book smell
4. Books with spine memory (opening to a favorite page because it's reviewed so often)

[Michelle]

Out with #2! There is nothing like the smell of books, and #4 is just so convenient 🙂

[DivaDiane]

Oh, definitely #2 has to go!

[CBRetriever]

all 4 - I pretty much only read on my Kindle except for cookbooks. If I had to pick one, I'd pick three because those often come with bugs

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

You don't sniff your kindle? 8D

[Jenny Haebtown]

#4! I honestly don't re-read favorite pages that often so it's not something i'm use to experiencing!

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I don't think my old books open on pages that I loved to read but rather pages I put the book down on when needing to do something quickly. :/

[Phillip]

1. Liking the POV character
2. Liking the world building
3. Liking the overall story premise
4. Liking the villain's motivation (good enough you'd consider the villain's point of view)

[Michelle]

The POV character

[Nicole]

I'd let go of #4. I don't need a bad guy to have motives that I like...
Horror books have left me content with evil just being evil or accepting that the evil is there for a stupid reason. Plus, most of the time the villain's motivation is power or revenge, might be refreshing to have something less likable as the motive.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

One's gotta go:

1. Books at bedtime
2. Commute reading
3. Vacation reading
4. Mundane task reading (including at work!)

*Note: audiobooks are still reading!

[Michelle]

Allison, what is this? A trick question? Obviously they're all keepers!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I'm very sorry to have to explain that pain is the name of this game XD

[Michelle]

Ok. Then #4 can go.

[Anna]

Bed, commute, and mundane tasks happen (more or less) regularly, vacations do not, so this is easy!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Commute reading for me. I don't really have one, and the days I do, I actually have to know what's going on (RTO WAS A MISTAKE!!!)

[CBRetriever]

I'm retired so #4 can go

[DivaDiane]

At the moment, bedtime reading is really inefficient and short-lived for me. I only manage a few pages, so No. 1 it is!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

One's gotta go:

1. Comfort reads
2. Hot off the presses reads
3. Translated works
4. Fan service editions (i.e. illustrated versions or otherwise arty/more content added editions of favorite works)

[CBRetriever]

4 - fan service editions. I haven't seen one that improves a lot on the original

[Colin]

I will also vote out #4 - fan service editions. Don't do anything for me.

[WTEK]

I think fan service editions make great gifts so I'm going with Hot off the press

[Tara]

#4 --> fan service editions

[Phillip]

1. Great/realistic dialogue
2. Background description/prose
3. Character description
4. Thought provoking magic/future tech system

[DivaDiane]

I could happily live without Character descriptions.