Just One, On a Desert Island

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Just One, On a Desert Island

Sep. 24th, 2004 at 12:51 PM

greygirlbeast

Poll #355480 My Best Book Yet

Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 107

Of all my novels, which do you think is the best?

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The Five of Cups

2(1.8%)

Silk

18(15.8%)

Threshold

25(21.9%)

Low Red Moon

51(44.7%)

Murder of Angels

18(15.8%)

Here's an extra just for LJ people. The "update journal" redesign has made creating polls easier, I think, and has tempted me. I simply cannot resist these damn'd options (I know I have a problem). Anyway, be honest. I really am curious.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music:The Crúxshadows, "Tears"

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 24th, 2004 07:00 pm (UTC)

Your icon is the draddest. I may puke from laughing.

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lilituc

Sep. 24th, 2004 05:04 pm (UTC)

Doh

I haven't read them all yet! Part of it is I prefer to buy from local vendors, although since that hasn't panned out I've been resorting to Amazon (yes, I did click-through), and part of it is that I'm dangerously low on free time.

Also: hi.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 24th, 2004 05:23 pm (UTC)

Re: Doh

and part of it is that I'm dangerously low on free time.

You and me both.

Also: hi.

Hi!

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phaedrine

Sep. 24th, 2004 05:13 pm (UTC)

I marked Low Red Moon, though MoA comes in a very close second. I think I need to read MoA a second time to fully digest it. Low Red Moon was so beautiful, so haunting, it's one of my all-time favorites, too. :)

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docbrite

Sep. 24th, 2004 05:37 pm (UTC)

I think they have gotten progressively better, so I voted for LRM only because I haven't read MOA yet. (I bet you're going to hear that a lot.)

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tiel

Sep. 24th, 2004 05:55 pm (UTC)

I was going to say the exact same thing.

It probably also bears mentioning that, while I think LRM is the best from a story-crafting perspective, Silk would have been my choice if the poll had asked which book was my favorite.

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cinzazul

Sep. 24th, 2004 06:01 pm (UTC)

I'm not voting until I have a chance to read MOA. Also, I love all your books and clicking every box will skew the results.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 24th, 2004 06:25 pm (UTC)

I'm not voting until I have a chance to read MOA. Also, I love all your books and clicking every box will skew the results.

Look here, you silly garda. Just vote for the best one you've read so far. This ain't rocket science.

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seismic

Sep. 24th, 2004 07:21 pm (UTC)

I'm typically horribly shy. I've written a grand total of three fan letters (or emails, as the case may be) ever.

One of them was for Low Red Moon.

I have read Murder of Angels. I managed to not devour it in a single sitting but only succeeded in pacing myself through the half-way mark. It's fantastic and beautiful but Narcissa throws the balance firmly in favor or LRM for me.

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dr_avalanche

Sep. 24th, 2004 07:33 pm (UTC)

They have gotten progressively better. I checked Low Red Moon,which I loved, because I haven't read Murder of Angels yet. (I bought it last night.) Based on your excellent first reading at Dragon*Con, though, I suspect MOA will become my favorite shortly.

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laserbitch

Sep. 24th, 2004 09:28 pm (UTC)

Of course, I believe my favorite collection of your work is Tales of Pain and Wonder.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 24th, 2004 10:10 pm (UTC)

Of course, I believe my favorite collection of your work is Tales of Pain and Wonder.

I cam this close (just imagine, okay) to putting it on the list, as I do think of it as a pseudonovel.

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robyn_ma

Sep. 24th, 2004 09:50 pm (UTC)

this poll is incomplete, by the way; you didn't include the novelization you did of that two-part friends episode where ross and rachel fight about something.

both harrowing and heartwarming, a veritable rollercoaster ride of emotion, caitlin r. kiernan's the one where ross and rachel fight remains atop my list of life-changing volumes.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 24th, 2004 10:12 pm (UTC)

this poll is incomplete, by the way; you didn't include the novelization you did of that two-part friends episode where ross and rachel fight about something.

You would bring that up, wouldn't you?

both harrowing and heartwarming, a veritable rollercoaster ride of emotion, caitlin r. kiernan's the one where ross and rachel fight remains atop my list of life-changing volumes.

You're sick, sick lady...

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mouthfullofdust

Sep. 24th, 2004 10:00 pm (UTC)

I picked Murder of Angels.
I thought it was so hauntingly beautiful. I loved the play of sides. How someone who we think is good, could be bad (and vice versa) depending on your prospective. That it is truly all gray area.

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diefalling

Sep. 24th, 2004 11:04 pm (UTC)

The only one

Though I love all of these books, I must give my vote to Low Red Moon, because it has been the only book I have ever read that I have had to remeber both who and where I was after being startled out of reading it.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 25th, 2004 05:55 am (UTC)

Re: The only one

because it has been the only book I have ever read that I have had to remeber both who and where I was after being startled out of reading it.

It would be hard to ask for better flattery.

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ventris

Sep. 25th, 2004 05:56 am (UTC)

I voted for MoA. Although if the question had been " what is your favorite book?" I would have picked LRM. But after reading MoA I would have to say that one is the best. All those of you who have not had a chance to read this book, I hope you are able to do so soon.

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greygirlbeast

Sep. 25th, 2004 03:19 pm (UTC)

I voted for MoA. Although if the question had been " what is your favorite book?" I would have picked LRM. But after reading MoA I would have to say that one is the best.

This is a fine but important distinction, I think. "Best" vs. "Favourite."

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setsuled

Sep. 25th, 2004 12:31 pm (UTC)

I chose Low Red Moon because it's keen. I'm only halfway through Murder of Angels and it's really good so far.

There. I've given the most generic comment to this post . . .

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aoniedesade

Sep. 27th, 2004 09:34 pm (UTC)

While Silk will always be one of those books that I will pick up and read countless times during my life because it is well written and drew me in so that I cared greatly for the characters and their various fates, Low Red Moon drew me in even further. I began to care for the characters on a very deep level, and the ending was heart wrenching.

I am still trying to wrap my mind around Murder of Angels, which I finished a few days ago. It will be awhile before I will be able to pick it up again. Believe it or not, that is a compliment to your craft.

While I was in Borders today, just because I felt like it, I took a copy of Murder of Angels out of the rows, and put it across the rows, so that the cover was visible over the several copies they had there. Just because I could.

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activistgirl

Sep. 28th, 2004 06:52 pm (UTC)

You're killing me...
Okay, I did it, I voted...even though I've only read two on the list. Just wanted to let you know that my former stats. teacher, Dr. Kashefi, would go apeshit and swear in three languages if he heard about this. I've seen him mad, it's not pretty.

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