The Marquis de Leech Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Very difficult decision.Voted for: The Silmarillion (Tolkien), LOTR (Tolkien), The Book of the New Sun (Wolfe), Lord of Light (Zelazny), Gormenghast (Peake), The Anubis Gates (Powers), Sandman (Gaiman), I Am Legend (Matheson), Thomas Covenant (Donaldson), and ASOIAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undertow Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Voted for:Lord of the RingsSilmarillionASOIAFFarenheit 451The Black CompanyMalazanThe RoadDuneI am LegendFoundationI would have chosen It by Steven King over Farenheit 451, but I didn't see it.Did anyone else see Children of God and think of Child of God? Not knowing anything about the former, I got a kick out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 And likely only done because of this book :ohwell: I absolutely loved this book when I read it for the first time last year (one of three of my picks that I read last year, along with Earth Abides and Flowers for Algernon); the prose was evocative, the story was charming, and it didn't feel dated in the slightest. Overall a magnificent book.While much was different, I have pushed the Circus of Dr Lao on this board once or twice, and it was a circus that is "not quite what it seems" published in the 30's. I wonder if my opinion on the two would have been different if I had read Something Wicked Comes This Way before Dr Lao. But I will never know now :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UndergroundMan Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Voted for:Lord of the RingsSong of Ice and FireThe Once and Future KingThe Last UnicornThe SilmarillionThe Lies of Locke LamoraFirst Law TrilogyPrince of Nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Voted for:Lord of the RingsSong of Ice and FireThe Once and Future KingThe Last UnicornThe SilmarillionThe Lies of Locke LamoraFirst Law TrilogyPrince of NothingI didn't notice it on the list ( I mostly skimmed through ) but I really, really like The Last Unicorn. I read it and The Neverending Story practically every month for quite some time as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 While much was different, I have pushed the Circus of Dr Lao on this board once or twice, and it was a circus that is "not quite what it seems" published in the 30's. I wonder if my opinion on the two would have been different if I had read Something Wicked Comes This Way before Dr Lao. But I will never know now :dunno:Cool, I've added that to my amazon wishlist, and will check it out at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imladolen Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I almost vomited when I noticed that Vance didn't make it there once, but otherwise I had plenty fill in my ten, so I voted.imlad, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn was there.Yeah, I saw it when I went back and looked. Wish I had noticed it the first time. Simply Amazing!You know, I've never read any Vance. how would you describe his stuff, and where should I start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imladolen Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 It must have been the full edition. I remember getting the book and thinking it was pretty big. Yeah Heinlein was a gloriously dirty old man. I remember reading I Will Fear No Evil and thinking. "Huh, in the future women will have perfect bodies and wear body paint instead of clothes...doesn't sound so bad."One of the biggest additions in the uncut version, I believe, is a really long discussion about cannibalism between Jubal and Duke (I think it was Duke). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdiddyesquire Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-booksThe list is posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark Truth Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos owns most of the books on this list. When HBO finishes with ASoIaF I hope they make Hyperion next!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Pretty boring result, mostly the usual suspects in the Top 20. At least Starship Troopers is not in the Top 30, thankfully. How does this mediocre novel ever become popular is beyond me, Heinlein wrote so many much better books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lannes Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 A crying shame that Fritz Lieber is nowhere on that list...:frown5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reposado Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 urgh, Franken-emo in the top 20?Read it recently and it might have been the worst book I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raksha the Demon Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139248590/top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-booksThe list is posted.The Shannara books made the top 100???? :rolleyes: :thumbsdown: <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdiddyesquire Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 The Shannara books made the top 100???? :rolleyes: :thumbsdown: <_<There's quite a few of those moments. I'm a Sanderson fan, but Way of Kings already in a top 100? Man.Codex Alera? Really? The series where Butcher tried to be as kitsch at possible. Again good, fun books, but a top 100 fantasy book EVER?Seems like Stephenson is a little over represented for my tastes... splitting the Bas-Lag (not counting them as a series) vote on Mieville was stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 /facepalm18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss71. The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson87. The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene WolfeThat says it all really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lannes Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 There's quite a few of those moments. I'm a Sanderson fan, but Way of Kings already in a top 100? Man.Codex Alera? Really? The series where Butcher tried to be as kitsch at possible. Again good, fun books, but a top 100 fantasy book EVER?Seems like Stephenson is a little over represented for my tastes... splitting the Bas-Lag (not counting them as a series) vote on Mieville was stupid.LOL...I thought the same thing. Love them or hate them, it's obvious that lots of younger, internet savvy authors were able to marshal their troops for the poll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Fick Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 The list may be skewed towards co-called classics as well as popular contemporary works, but I think that all in all - but without the rating taken into account - it's fairly decent . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alguien Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I read 9 out of the top 10, 17 out of the top 20, and 52 out of the whole 100. There are some that got on there because they're currently popular, and others that made it because they're perennial classics. All in all, I like the list and agree with many of the choices included, if not their exact rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Fick Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos owns most of the books on this list. When HBO finishes with ASoIaF I hope they make Hyperion next!!!There already is an early-stage project to adapt Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion into feature films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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