Comments on: Recommending SFF Books – A Movement

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:41:19 +0000

Great idea!

By: Eric S.

Eric S. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:16:16 +0000

Tons of people (literally) will watch movies based on comics, although most of them don’t read comics. More tons of people will watch movies based on sf/fantasy who don’t read the same. So there are plenty of folks out there who are potential converts. Mostly it’s finding the ‘right’ book for them.

By: Daemon

Daemon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:18:02 +0000

I do this every time the opportunity arises. Why ghettoize a specific day for telling people about good sf/f books?

By: Jason Sanford

Jason Sanford — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:15:30 +0000

A great idea. Finally a movement I can get behind. I just tweeted a recommendation for The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

By: Niall

Niall — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:50:17 +0000

Every time I do this it turns out they already like sf/f, although they usually haven’t heard of the specific titles I’m recommending.

By: Mike "Ankorite" C.

Mike "Ankorite" C. — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:39:58 +0000

I have the problem of recommending difficult novels, since those are the ones I like most. Not everyone wants to have to think too hard when they read a book, which isn’t a bad thing. I don’t think it detracts from their intellect.

By: Brit Mandelo

Brit Mandelo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:57:55 +0000

My mother has discovered she actually loves SFF this way. I gave her Gaiman’s “Fragile Things” first because it’s a short story collection, which she likes… Now she’d branched out to G.R.R.Martin, more Gaiman, and even a little urban fantasy (Patricia Briggs). So far she’s loved all of it, and I am vindicated for all those years she said she only liked literary fiction. *g*

By: Bill Ectric

Bill Ectric — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:52:10 +0000

That is a good idea. I recently recommended Finch to a coworker who usually reads books by Grisham, Ludlam, and others like that. I had already told him about City of Saints & Madmen and Shriek. He said they sounded interesting, but didn’t seem anxious to read them. The other day, he mentioned watching some episodes of The Outer Limits and Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Hulu, so that was the last straw. I said, “You’ve got to read Finch and tell me what you think of it.” So, he said okay, but I couldn’t lend it to him yet, becaue I wasn’t finished with it. I’ll give it to him Monday and hope I get it back! Fine book, by the way. Fine book.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:45:50 +0000

I am a certified George R.R. Martin proselytizer. I’m giving Game of Thrones for a gift for the third time this year! Do you think wearing my Darth Vader outfit puts people off when I’m telling them how cool genre fiction is?

By: S.J. Chambers

S.J. Chambers — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:31:27 +0000

I like it. I often pick up spare (and thrifty, ideally) copies of books I really love (be it SFF) so I can pass them on.