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01
2012
WWEnd Grand Master Reading Challenge: June Review Poll
June was another great month for the GMRC! We featured 7 reviews in the blog with 2 first time reviewers in the list. Check out these great reviews and cast your vote for the best.
- Shadrach in the Furnace by Robert Silverberg – (Bookkeeper)
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury – (triseult)
- Gateway by Frederik Pohl – (jfrantz)
- The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester – (RhondaK101)
- Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin – (galleyangel)
- Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison – (Emil)
- The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg – (CharlesDee)
You don’t have to be a GMRC participant to vote so jump in and make your opinion count! The poll is open until July 15th so you have plenty of time to read all the reviews.
RhondaK101 has provided the updated stats.
Authors with the most books read:
- Isaac Asimov (33)
- Robert A. Heinlein (33)
- Arthur C. Clarke (31)
- Joe Haldeman (26)
Authors with the most different titles read:
- Isaac Asimov (14)
- Robert A. Heinlein (13)
- Arthur C. Clarke (11)
Books most frequently read:
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (13)
- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (11)
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway (9)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (8)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (8)
- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End (8)
- Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man (8)
Winner gets the following:
- GMRC T-shirt – your choice of colors so long as it’s black
- GMRC button – you can never have too much flair
- Set of WWEnd Hugo Award bookmarks – I’ll be honest, we over-bought these for WorldCon so we need to unload some but they’re still pretty cool and they will, in fact, hold your place in any paper book.
- Book of your choice from the WWEnd bookshelf – the winner will get a list of a dozen titles to pick from
- Everlasting Glory – So you’ll have that goin’ for ya. Which is nice.
Runners up will get a GMRC button and a set of bookmarks.
3 Comments
Obviously a big thank you to all the reviewers, you all are great. But I would like to also say thank you to Dave Post. This was a great idea and it’s really livened up the site this year. Lot of activity, lot of interaction. Maybe I am wrong but the membership involvement seems to have reached new a level with this site. Great work everyone, great idea Dave, and I’d love to say more but I’ve got to go, there’s an entire bookcase I need to get to.
@Wintermute: Thanks for the kudos and I will, of course, have to point to the whole team for the success of the GMRC. When we came up with the idea we had no idea how it would go over but what’s a book site without a reading challenge? I was the most optimistic of the crew with my prediction of 50 participants and we’ve had many a laugh about that. We’re pushing for 150 now! The way you guys have taken to it has been really great to see and the results are just as you’ve said. Tons of great participation and obviously the reviews speak for themselves. It has certainly helped us build a nice little community of fans here and I doff my hat to you all!
Nice batch this month. June was a bit busy for me but I’ll make sure to deliver a new review in July 😉
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