Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Thank you, Jane, for getting back to me in time :)

I must admit this isn't a typical shelf for me (which is shown by only a handful of books being ticked on my GR shelf) - what will you be looking forward to read on cyberpunk?

Though it seems I've read 2 that I rated 5 stars! Alif the Unseen and Jennifer Government -if you're interested.

a world of possibilities! on the first page i've only read 2 and have 1 listed as want to read; on the second page zero shelved...this is going to take some research

If it is still available once June arrives, I will read Snow Crash. Currently it is only available through the digital library branch. I added it to my wishlist, since, if I check it out now, it only has a 14 day circulation, which would give me about1 week to read it.

This was a tough one for me. I'm going with A Clockwork Orange.

I have a lot of these on my TBR shelf. I will choose from
The Difference Engine
The Quantum Thief
The Peripheral
Freedom™
Rule 34
Anathem
Glasshouse
vN
Lock In
Saturn's Children
Quicksilver
The Atrocity Archives
For the Win
Machine Man
Nova Swing
depending what I can fit into my challenges.

Interesting choice. I was doing a challenge that asked to read a book from a non-traditional genre and I couldn't come up with one. Well, now I have. I have gone through the first four pages of the list before I found any books that I have listed as wanting to read, and to page 5 before I found one that I have read.

I think I will try to go with either:

Quicksilver
Cinder
Or
Cryptonomicon

I have the following on my TBR...not sure which one I'll read yet!

I will be really interested to see which books you all like the best.

wow, Coralie, that is a lot of choices! And I've only heard 2 out of the 15 ;p

I have read a few on the shelf but don't have any on my TBR currently. I'm going to check what the rest of you read and maybe pick one of them.

Coralie, DG, and I are clearly atypical on this shelf. On just page 1, I have 12 Read, 5 TBR, 1 considering (and 2 series-to-be-read-later that I can't read till I read the earlier ones). My problem will be choosing among them.

I think I might start with one of Gibson's, Pattern Recognition.

For those of you wondering where to start, I recommend Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, who is amazing as a person as well as an author. As just one example, when a school superintendent in Florida closed down a summer reading program because the teens would be reading Little Brother, Doctorow shipped caseloads of the book free to the teachers who had been organizing the program. Cinder is another YA book that might be a gentle introduction to the genre.

My favorite on page 1 was Freedom, but you'd probably want to read the first one in the series first. That's Daemon, and I gave it 5 stars as well.

My favorite in page one is , hands down. Too bad this shelf wasn't picked in July when is coming out!

I'm surprised by how many books I have from this shelf. I have even more on my "get from library" shelf which I didn't even consider in the list above.

D.G. wrote: "My favorite in page one is , hands down. "

Agreed, D.G. That's terrific also.

I am enjoying all of the suggestions from those who are more familiar with the genre. :)

Cinder or A Clockwork Orange

I'm finally going to read for this shelf. Also , which I recommend to anyone who loves comics and dark humor.

Well, I got Snow Crash out of the digital library and then forgot about it while I read other books. Now it has digitally gone back to the library. Not sure if I will actually read for this shelf, since I am working so hard on other challenges.

I am late to this party because, honestly, this shelf just didn't speak to me at all. But the whole purpose of this group is to branch out so I gave myself the 1st 20 pages to see if there were any books already on my to read list. I actually made a list of 11!! So I will be adding one of them to my Readers Pursuit next chance I get!