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[snycock]

Snagged from ponders_life, but also because I was tagged on Facebook when a friend asked her husband and myself how many we had read. My friend had read 15. Her husband had read 35. I had read 62 (including incomplete series).

NPR's list of the 100 top science fiction and fantasy books (bold if I've read, underline if I've partially read, italics if I'd

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[anxiety_junkie]

I highly recommend the Belgariad by David Eddings, and all the other books in that same universe. I cannot, in fact, recommend it highly enough. :)

But why isn't John Carter of Mars on this list? That is classic SF!

[snycock]

ooh, cool, I'll check that out. I've never heard of the Belgariad before, but it's good to get a recommendation.

Did you know there's a movie of John Carter coming out? Although I doubt Dejah Thoris will have bare breasts in it... ;-)

[anxiety_junkie]

I've seen the trailer, and I have high hopes. Except I don't think they're going to actually put him on Mars...

[snycock]

According to the Wikipedia article, it is set on Mars. They just took "of Mars" out of the title (I don't know why).

Huh?

[gillyp]

No Weaveworld, but Time Traveller's Wife makes it on? I have no faith in this list!

Re: Huh?

[snycock]

Oh, I LOVED Weaveworld! Maybe because Barker is more known for horror than sci-fi/fantasy? Although who knows - I don't know what was on the original list of nominations.

Was the Time Traveller's Wife not very good? I've heard of it, but don't know anyone who's actually read it.

Re: Huh?

[gillyp]

Plenty of people really love TTW but I thought it stank like a bin-load of last week's herring - the main character, in particular is such a massive Mary Sue, to a degree that you'd never get away with in ff.

Nice that HHGTTG came second, and only to the inevitable LotR.

[recran]

I'm horrified at how few of these I've read. I need to put in some requests at the library and get going! The ones I have read are some of my favorite books ever.