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Cattfish wrote: "Do you dare to accept the Random Book Challenge?"
No, With my luck I'd end up with a 1000 page chick lit fantasy book :-?
or f***ing Twilight.
No, With my luck I'd end up with a 1000 page chick lit fantasy book :-?
or f***ing Twilight.


At first I thought, "Bravo!" because I've always been annoyed that some authors have books in both sections, even ones that are clearly SF (Kim Stanley Robinson, Neil Gaiman, and Neal Stephenson come to mind). It's like "If it's good enough SF, then it can go in the fiction section."
After my initial amusement, I realize how much shelve browsing I used to do in the SF/Fantasy section and now it's impossible. Not happy about the change anymore.

It's this mystical, magical place where those of us who are really, really poor can still read books... for free!
For those of you playing along at home with your ebooks, just throw some random numbers into the amazon url... same game, more choices!

Maybe one that scans Amazon for those freebies and then lets you randomly pick one?


No, With my luck I'd end up with a 1000 page chick lit fantasy book :-?
or f***ing Twilight."
Actually you wouldn't as Twilight is shelved in the YA section. In general they don't put 'chick lit' in the sci-fi/fantasy section.

I beg to differ I've seen some Darkover books there.
Go to your local library. Stand in the SF/F section, close your eyes, spin around a bit, and then pick a book. Do you dare to accept the Random Book Challenge?