[Dragaera] Polling excitement specifics

[A.S. Zanoni]

dragaera-request at dragaera.info wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:18:26 -0700
> From: "Scott Schultz" <scott at cjhunter.com>
> 
> 
> Here's how the list looks using the weighting system described above. Jhereg
> floats to the top, but the top vote-getters remain pretty much the same. A
> few titles in the middle of the pack switch places but for the most part the
> two lists are pretty similar.
> 
> Title                Total Points 
> ----------------     ------------ 
> Jhereg			 39	
> The Phoenix Guards	 34	
> Taltos			 33	
> Issola			 29	
> To Reign In Hell		 24
> Agyar				 13


Interesting.  I expected _Jhereg_ at or near the top.  I hadn't realized 
TPG was so popular.  Very cool.

Thank you also for tabulating and discussing the results, gentlefolk. 
That was an unexpected bonus for which I am most thankful!

Does anyone here use LibraryThing to sort, find or discuss books?  Or 
any combination of those, really.  Just curious.

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> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:28:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> 
>> Here's how the list looks using the weighting system described above. Jhereg
>> floats to the top, but the top vote-getters remain pretty much the same.
> 
> That suggests that there's no ranking preference except for _Jhereg_, 
> which gets listed high if at all.

_Jhereg_ being at the top helps.  Especially since it was the best 
starting choice for people who say, "Wow, does this guy have a series? 
I like this!"  My rationale was that most readers prefer to read by 
order of publication OR designated order [book one, book two, et cetera].

Recently I read an essay, which said that SF is a perfect genre in a 
certain respect - in that people who like an author tend to want to read 
everything else they can find by that author.  I believe "author-driven" 
was the phrase used.

I'd like the path to be clear (and sufficiently inviting) for those 
future converts to find their way.  :>

I do appreciate that so many folks replied to this.

Thank you all!

Chica*---

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