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DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 10:34:09 am PDT #15904 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Knut and I both thought that NPR's List of Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books was incredibly boring.

So we traded picks and made our own top ten of just Fantasy and I like our list better. (They included series so we did too.)

1. The Circus of Dr. Lao - Charles Finney
2. Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
3. Lud-In-The-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
4. Mythago Wood series - Robert Holdstock
5. Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll
6. The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
7. Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser series - Fritz Leiber
8. Riddlemaster of Hed series - Patricia McKillip
9. The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
10. Iron Dragon's Daughter - Michael Swanick

-t - Aug 11, 2011 10:46:57 am PDT #15905 of 28293
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, I've certainly read a more representative sample of the NPR list than y'all's.

Jesse - Aug 11, 2011 10:50:09 am PDT #15906 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]

Polter-Cow - Aug 11, 2011 10:50:51 am PDT #15907 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, your list is completely foreign to me. I have heard of Gormenghast, and I have a Jonathan Carroll book that JZ lent me years ago (I think that's the one, actually) but I haven't read, but I haven't even heard of the rest.

There's much on the NPR list I haven't heard of either, but also lots I like. Too bad the Feed books didn't make it this time!

Glen Weldon's commentary on the list is interesting, I think: [link]

Ooh, yeah, worth a read.

zuisa - Aug 11, 2011 10:55:56 am PDT #15908 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

I have the first book in the Gormenghast trilogy, but I've sadly never gotten around to reading it.

I haven't much on the NPR list either, sadly, but the books I have read Snow Crash, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and some others) I've very much enjoyed.

I need to read more science fiction, is the moral of this story, I think!

Ginger - Aug 11, 2011 11:12:56 am PDT #15909 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Gormenghast? Really?

Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2011 11:14:08 am PDT #15910 of 28293
brillig

I tried Gorgmenghast and it just seemed utterly bleak. I do enjoy Riddlemaster of Hed and I've heard of Mythago Woods, but the others are unfamiliar.

Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 11:14:18 am PDT #15911 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I've read a bunch of the books on your list David, but I don't necessarily agree they're the best ones. For instance, I think that Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber collection is more important (and interesting!) than The Magic Toyshop. And while Gormenghast is hugely important, I don't know many people who've made it through the entire trilogy. (Heaven knows I haven't.)

Plus, no Tanith Lee? No Ray Bradbury? Crazyheads.

Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2011 11:15:54 am PDT #15912 of 28293
brillig

Zelazny would go on any list I made, if I was making lists.

Ginger - Aug 11, 2011 11:18:34 am PDT #15913 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Trying to read Gormenghast was a lot like dental surgery, except without the anesthesia.

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