Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
by BrennanOB

Comment:
This is almost pornographic :-) It certainly meets the challenge, for all that it breaks my heart.

7 from me.

Esperanza Cordero
by odriew

Comment:
I keep bypassing this one 'cuz I'm not sure about it, but it's growing on me. I spent half my life in close proximity to Chicano culture, and something about the mood here rings very true. It's interesting you've chosen to title the image with the Character's Name rather than the title of the novel, but it's not an issue for me.

I like the tones and the softness of it. A good response to the challenge. 6.

Lord of the Flies
by posthumous

Comment:
This is very nicely constructed. It has a real feel of frenetic desperation and impermanence to it. I like the toning, the bokeh is excellent, it works well with the gestalt of the novel.

7 from me.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
by Bensted

Comment:
Well, for one thing the Black Swan book isn't a novel... Beyond that, it feels like this image is an opportunity missed: the processing is curiously muddy where it could have been rich and deep, as befits a bird of such funereal plumage. I like the eye.

5 from me.

War of The Worlds
by Mond

Comment:
It's an intriguing image and an intriguing take on the novel. It doesn't actually HAVE anything to do with the novel, which is more of a steampunk thing (LOL) but it feels like it OUGHT to, if you know what I mean?

Anyway, I like it. I want to know where it actually is, and what's going on. 7 from me.

The Secret Garden
by pmichaud

Comment:
This does have the sense of a discovered, secret garden, the passage through a green tunnel into light. Beyond that, it's not doing a whole lot for me, I don't feel especially engaged.

5 from me.

"Airport" by Arthur Hailey (1968)
by HarveyG

Comment:
Well, it's an airport for sure :-) What I want to know is, which of our members is scooting around in a Robinson R22 helicopter? If you're shooting and flying at the same time, I'm mildly freaked out...

The picture doesn't do a lot for me, I'm afraid, but there's nothing to complain about either. I wish we had a 5.5 score, but since I'm amused to recognize the bird, I'll call it 6 :-)

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
by illini75

Comment:
I'm not wowed by this, but it's working reasonably well to establish that mood of poverty and hopelessness.

6 from me.

To Kill A Mockingbird
by mefnj

Comment:
A hauntingly beautiful memento mori. The title of the novel derives from an old folk wisdom that it is immoral to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing but sing and bring goodness to our lives. Atticus says as much in one of his monologues to Scout. And this is a central theme in the book, because there are individuals in the town, especially Boo, who are feared and reviled and mocked when all they want to do, is good.

As such, I take the imagery here to be sort of a post-mockingbird conceit, as it were, a commentary on how we've gone and sucked all the beauty and good out of life in our post-modern times. It's MY conceit of course: no reason it has to be yours. But it ties the whole thing together fabulously for me, and I have no technical nits to pick, being a lover of photographing dead things on slate myself.

9 from me.

The Water Babies ~ Charles Kingsley
by Ja-9

Comment:
I like this very much. I can see the koi as metaphors for the water babies. I like the feel of it and the color of it. Nice job! 8