For the Fantasy list: 14 - Beauty: *hated* it, because it's very anti-male and I repeatedly wanted to pummel the main character. I think Tepper is very overrated.
6 - Amber's OK. The first series is pretty good - avoid the Merlin books like the plague. Fun gaming system attached to it.
For the SF list:
14 - The Demolished Man - Bester kicks much ass, in a sort of hard-boiled way. I haven't read anything by him I didn't like.
5- The Stars my Destination - see above.
HC #5 - A Canticle for Leibowitz - I found this to be at times incoherent, and very overrated.
HC #3 - The Man in the High Castle - by today's standards, I found this a bit slim and underdeveloped; it's more of a novella than a novel. It's got great ideas, though, and it's very well-written.
I notice the SF list is dominated by just a few authors.
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Date: 2004-08-06 03:50 pm (UTC)For the Fantasy list:
14 - Beauty: *hated* it, because it's very anti-male and I repeatedly wanted to pummel the main character. I think Tepper is very overrated.
6 - Amber's OK. The first series is pretty good - avoid the Merlin books like the plague. Fun gaming system attached to it.
For the SF list:
14 - The Demolished Man - Bester kicks much ass, in a sort of hard-boiled way. I haven't read anything by him I didn't like.
5- The Stars my Destination - see above.
HC #5 - A Canticle for Leibowitz - I found this to be at times incoherent, and very overrated.
HC #3 - The Man in the High Castle - by today's standards, I found this a bit slim and underdeveloped; it's more of a novella than a novel. It's got great ideas, though, and it's very well-written.
I notice the SF list is dominated by just a few authors.