Well, I've certainly read a more representative sample of the NPR list than y'all's.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-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
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.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 11:45:04 am PDT #15914 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah, your list is completely foreign to me.
It is a connoisseur's list. ::sniff::
No, I riffed with Knut knowing that we'd have some of the same touchstones and overlap but also some divergence. My taste was really shaped by Lin Carter's Ballantine Adult Fantasy series from the early 70s.
Though it really shouldn't be that obscure. Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance are grandmasters of the genre, and Circus of Dr. Lao and Lud In The Mist are both famous among hardcore fantasy fans.