1000 sf/fantasy books you must read

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Florestan

#20
January 22, 2009, 07:14:33 AM
Quote from: mn dave on January 22, 2009, 07:07:38 AM
You said "other" 10 or 20. Did you mean books that aren't included on the 1,000 list?

Are the ones I've suggested included in that list?
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Dr. Dread

#21
January 22, 2009, 07:15:16 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 22, 2009, 07:14:33 AM
Are the ones I've suggested included in that list?

Dunno. Go look.  ;D

DavidW

#22
January 22, 2009, 04:13:28 PM
It's funny that Forever War was on the list because I was half way through reading it (as a library checkout) when I was visiting my parents for Christmas, and found out that my local library doesn't have it and it's out of print. >:(

How does a novel that ends up on these kind of best lists end up out of print anyway?

Brian

#23
January 22, 2009, 04:22:33 PM
Quote from: Florestan on January 22, 2009, 07:00:03 AM
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Balzac - Pere Goriot
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times
Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Dostoievsky - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Demons
Proust - In Search of The Lost Time
Th. Mann - The Magic Mountain

already 12... let's change my previous 10 with 100, ok?  :D

100 Years of Solitude

Dr. Dread

#24
January 22, 2009, 04:23:03 PM
Quote from: DavidW on January 22, 2009, 04:13:28 PM
How does a novel that ends up on these kind of best lists end up out of print anyway?

It's a crime, it is.  >:(  $:)

Sarastro

#25
January 22, 2009, 04:27:42 PM
It seems there has already been a topic on the forum about The 110 Best Books (by another British newspapers) started by mn dave. :D

ezodisy

#26
January 22, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
Quote from: Florestan on January 22, 2009, 07:00:03 AM
Cervantes - Don Quijote
Balzac - Pere Goriot
Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times
Tolstoy - War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Dostoievsky - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, The Demons
Proust - In Search of The Lost Time
Th. Mann - The Magic Mountain

already 12... let's change my previous 10 with 100, ok?  :D


you'll have to knock out either The Idiot or Demons and add in Notes from the Underground (I am really getting tired of the lack of thumbs-up smiley on this board)

Sarastro

#27
January 22, 2009, 04:40:50 PM
Quote from: ezodisy on January 22, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
(I am really getting tired of the lack of thumbs-up smiley on this board)

Help yourself:







:D

Szykneij

#28
January 22, 2009, 04:53:41 PM
It can't be a very authoritative list if this one isn't included:



;)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Brian

#29
January 22, 2009, 05:04:05 PM

Dr. Dread

#30
January 22, 2009, 06:50:20 PM
Quote from: Szykniej on January 22, 2009, 04:53:41 PM
It can't be a very authoritative list if this one isn't included:



;)



;D

That's actually out-of-print.

But I have copies.   ;D

Josquin des Prez

#31
January 22, 2009, 07:44:33 PM


The greatest fantasy book of all times.

Florestan

#32
January 22, 2009, 10:46:52 PM
Quote from: ezodisy on January 22, 2009, 04:36:22 PM
you'll have to knock out either The Idiot or Demons and add in Notes from the Underground

I'll gladly add it in, but why would I knock out the other two? Actually I should have written "Dostoyevsky --- pick anything".   8)

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Florestan

#33
January 22, 2009, 10:47:20 PM
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

ezodisy

#34
January 22, 2009, 11:38:39 PM
Quote from: Sarastro on January 22, 2009, 04:40:50 PM
Help yourself:







:D

Quote from: Florestan on January 22, 2009, 10:46:52 PM
I'll gladly add it in, but why would I knock out the other two? Actually I should have written "Dostoyevsky --- pick anything".   8)



Florestan

#35
January 23, 2009, 01:33:26 AM
I took a closer look at that list.

It never crossed my mind that Kafka's The Trial, Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Eco's Foucault Pendulum, Fowles' The Magus or Golding's Lord of the Flies belong in the Science-Fiction / Fantasy.  :o

"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory." — Thomas Beecham

Dr. Dread

#36
January 23, 2009, 04:20:22 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 23, 2009, 01:33:26 AM
I took a closer look at that list.

It never crossed my mind that Kafka's The Trial, Hesse's The Glass Bead Game, Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Eco's Foucault Pendulum, Fowles' The Magus or Golding's Lord of the Flies belong in the Science-Fiction / Fantasy.  :o



Consider your mind blown.  :)

DavidW

#37
January 23, 2009, 04:28:22 AM
Quote from: mn dave on January 23, 2009, 04:20:22 AM
Consider your mind blown.  :)

Well I consider them stretching to artificially add prestige to the genre. >:D

Dr. Dread

#38
January 23, 2009, 04:31:55 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 23, 2009, 04:28:22 AM
Well I consider them stretching to artificially add prestige to the genre. >:D

karlhenning

#39
January 26, 2009, 07:55:32 AM
Quote from: Florestan on January 23, 2009, 01:33:26 AM
I took a closer look at that list.

Separately . . . YHM, Andrei.
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