Jesus, I've only read, like, two books from that list, Dune and Ender's Game. I am a philistine, fer sure.
Do. Not. Get me started about The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! I fucking hate that series. I bought the first trilogy (it was a trilogy, right?) before I knew what a fucking bastard the "protagonist" is; wasted twenty bucks because I heard the series was *so* good and never got past the rape scene. I hoped when he got back to his world his dick promptly fell off. The worst was finding out the kid--you know who I'm talking about--forgives him for what he did to her mother. Uhg, *vomits*. Uhg.
Hmm... Sorry, I get stabby when I think about that series.
Any who, you know what needs to be on a SF's best list? The Wild Cards series. The only alternate history novels I really enjoyed. I just need to get my hands on the second cycle books.
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Do. Not. Get me started about The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! I fucking hate that series. I bought the first trilogy (it was a trilogy, right?) before I knew what a fucking bastard the "protagonist" is; wasted twenty bucks because I heard the series was *so* good and never got past the rape scene. I hoped when he got back to his world his dick promptly fell off. The worst was finding out the kid--you know who I'm talking about--forgives him for what he did to her mother. Uhg, *vomits*. Uhg.
Hmm... Sorry, I get stabby when I think about that series.
Any who, you know what needs to be on a SF's best list? The Wild Cards series. The only alternate history novels I really enjoyed. I just need to get my hands on the second cycle books.