Book Review Game

1) Sort your library by "Shared" (highest to lowest)
2) Find the first book that doesn't have a review
3) Read the book
4) Review the book
5) Celebrate for making LibraryThing an even more wonderful place!

I will be reading and reviewing:
Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany

Hope others would like to join in!

Mine is Still Life by A.S. Byatt. I read it years ago. I'll try to come up with a review!

I'll take End of the Game (also known as Blow-Up and Other Stories) by Julio Cortazar, a book I'd like to reread anyway. The book's in my office, and I'm leaving the country in a few hours, so I won't be able to get to it for a while.

Nice idea! I scrolled through nearly 300 entries to get to (unbelievably) Stories by Anton Chekhov (not the touchstoned work). It's on my list in the 888 Challenge this year, so it won't be a problem to read and review.

Yet ... LTers have catalogued so many books of Chekhov stories, and reviewed most of them ... so maybe I'll go to the next in my scrolling: Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.

Oh, hooray! I am glad that others would like to participate. Looking forward to reading all your reviews!

Oddly, the first two I came up with in the list are both by T.C. Boyle - World's End and East is East. I suppose he comes into the category of writers who were popular 10-15 years before LT started, so many of us have his books on our shelves, but it's too recent for people to be re-reading them much.

Since I'm just recovering from a leg injury myself, I don't propose to re-read World's End in the near future(!), but I might try East is East - haven't a clue what it was about any more...

The Go Review that Book Group exists, and works in a similar manner, except that other people choose a book for you to review.

7> Oh yes, I know. It's a great group--been meaning to join it for quite some time now, but haven't gotten around to it. Perhaps now that I don't have school to worry about.

I did think this was different enough to post here, though. The point being to get more works reviewed on LibraryThing--and hopefully to have a good time doing it, too!

I got Still life by A. S. Byatt too ... So I'll just go with my second 'hit' - Medea by Euripides.

Great idea Phoenix. Once I've got a bit of time, I'll join in (too busy rejigging the blog because of your advice ... ;) ). I do 'Go Review That Book!" as well (although I've had the last one from that sitting in my bag for quite a while, *smacks own wrist*).

Sophocles: the Seven Plays in English Verse. I expect other editions have reviews? Hmm, maybe not!

lilithcat: I was a bit surprised to find my first unreviewed book was Medea! There seems to be a bit of a trend...

My first unreviewed book is The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene. Feeling whiny........do I have to? Can I check for the second?

Hehe...go ahead. This should be an enjoyable process, I think. :-)

I got The Ice-Shirt, I read it recently, I'll post a review soon :D

I first selected book tagged YA, there the first review-less book is In the Shadow of the Ark by Anne Provoost, so I will start to read it tomorrow.

> 12

Two possibilities -

1. Everyone thinks that everything that can be said about Greek tragedy has been said.

2. We all read them centuries ago in college, and can't remember what we thought.

I had another, more careful look, and saw that I have Still life too! - obviously it's some sort of stealth-novel that ducks under the radar.

I also found Henry IV part 2 lurking in the list, with 559 copies and no reviews, so I added a little comment. I don't think you can "review" Shakespeare, and I don't imagine many of those 559 copies were bought voluntarily, but at least anybody who is thinking of reading the play for pleasure will now have some idea what the play is about.

>18 thorold:, why on earth not? Some of the plays are wonderful, some of them are really pretty bad.

>19 sabreuse:

Didn't mean to suggest that he's beyond criticism, more that so much has been said by so many people that anything I could put in the standard 200 words or so would be likely to be either banal or arrogant.

I tried that and come up with an English/French dictionary and a road map of my home town.

sigh

You should keep going until you find one you like! :-)

After scrolling through 42 pages my first unreviewed book is The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks. I can't believe it's never been reviewed before. This has been on my tbr pile for ages so I'm quite looking forward to reading this and then writing a review. Good game by the way.

Okay, on page 16 I came up with: The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven. I read this long ago and will immediately write a review.

I finished In the shadow of the Ark by Anne Provoost
(Gouden Zoen 2002, award for the best Dutch YA book of that year)

My review on LT is in Dutch, so here is the English version ;-)

Re Jana and her parents leave Kanaän, because the water is rising. They heard someone is building a big ship far away in the desert. Re Jana meets Cham, one of the sons of the founder of the ship, he tells her why they build the ship. Cham promises she will go with him on the ship. But then Neelata arrives, the future wife of Cham.

A book about a well known story, but from a new perspective that makes it a touching, sometimes nearly cruel but also facinating story. 4 1/2 stars

>6 thorold:

I've read and reviewed East is East - still not sure if I'd read it before. It had a tube ticket stuck about halfway through as bookmark, but it doesn't look like any journey I would have been likely to make in 1996, so I suspect the book may have been left here by a visitor, unfinished.

The first book not reviewed in my list is, "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective". Can you tell that I'm cataloging my curriculum and kid's books first? LOL

Guess I'd better start reading...if I can get it away from my daughter. :-)

Amy

I remember those books! :-)

My boys use to love those books.

I wanted to read Encyclopedia Brown and review it, but my daughter loaned it to a friend. The next available book, Pippi, is also loaned out. So, the next book on my list which had yet to be reviewed was, "What Your Frist Grader Should Know". Here is my review:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2091/details/34400079

Amy

Great review Amy!

I found another one lurking in my list, and reviewed it: A Shropshire lad (375 copies).

Another great review, thorold!

Somehow, I haven't come across Houseman before (at least knowingly). Your review makes me want to track down a collection, though.

And as an update to those who wonder why I haven't reviewed my book, Trouble on Triton yet. I started this thread during what I expected to be a "dry-spell" and then all of a sudden a bunch of advance review copies showed up in my mail. Have to read those first, which makes me sad as I was really excited to read my book. Soon though!

I'm new to librarything and am still working my way through. I'd like to write a review for The Valley by Gail Freisen but I don't know how to get to the review writing page.

I'd also lke to know how to create a link to the title of the book.

By link to the book title, I'm assuming you mean the blue links like in message 33. These are called touchstones, and there are two varieties: ones that point to books and ones that point to authors. If you put square brackets around a book title, LT will do a database search and will probably find the right book. You can tell what your touchstone is linking to by looking to the right of the message entry window. If it's not the right book, click on "other" and select the right one. Author touchstones work the same way, except you use double square brackets around the name.

You can get to reviews by first putting the book in your library, then going to the page for the book (ie, by clicking on it in your library or following a touchstone). Over on the left will be a set of links for various things like member reviews, etc. If you click on Edit Book, you can enter all sorts of info about your book such as dates read, tags, and your review. Once it's saved, it'll show up on the member review page for the book like all the rest.

Thank you very much.

Well...I finally got around to it! I was rather disappointed unfortunately as I was really excited about reading Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany. Thanks to everyone who's participating in the game. :-)

This one has sort of died, but it might be interesting to revive it now that we can sort books by number of reviews and by number of members. I found one I'd missed before: Look back in anger, with 435 members and no reviews, so I added one...

My highest remaining one is H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks (an old Pelican with 570 members), but I'll need to spend a bit more time to remind myself what that is - don't think I've read it since school.