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Re: I suppose I could Isaac Send a noteboard - 19/01/2013 04:25:33 PM
Top 20 sci-fi, top 20 fantasy, top 20 series, etc but I'd guess they'd tend to resemble existing lists. It might be interesting to see, and the quickpoll could probably be used for it

Thing is, if my choices were to make up a substantial part of any list, it would involve a lot of selections that would be obscure to many. But I suppose asking people to list their Top 10/20 lit and 10/20 SF/F might generate something, although I suspect it'd be an odd list in terms of critical/pop lists.


Well usually you can gamble on the obvious ones showing up, like LotR, Hitchikers, Dune and Foundation, even though I don't think Foundation gets read much anymore. Every list I've seen is different to some degree though and I'm often surprised by a choice or two.

For example, I would list Borges on both hypothetical lists. Very few multi-volume fantasies would make it. Lit list would have fewer Anglo-American works and more Latin American ones. Likely wouldn't provide as much a common ground from which one could then explore the works they haven't yet read themselves.


I'd not be surprised if some non-English books made the list but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to recommend any, languages have never been a knack of mine. I don't know how my own list would stack up for obscurity, title maybe but not author. I might toss out a long out of print book by a dead author but it's still almost definitely going to be a pretty well known author. Like Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny rather than his more well known Chronicles of Amber or Lord of Light.
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If this board had more activity, I'd propose doing a list similar to this one Larry - 19/01/2013 11:34:41 AM 591 Views
A good list, though some of the choices are surprising. Tom - 19/01/2013 02:36:20 PM 388 Views
That was my general take when I blogged about it a few days ago Larry - 19/01/2013 02:42:33 PM 487 Views
The utter lack of Eliot is a scandal. Legolas - 19/01/2013 11:12:52 PM 368 Views
You could do a list Isaac - 19/01/2013 02:38:12 PM 340 Views
I suppose I could Larry - 19/01/2013 02:46:20 PM 367 Views
Re: I suppose I could Isaac - 19/01/2013 04:25:33 PM 355 Views
Some of those wouldn't be "obvious" for me Larry - 19/01/2013 04:58:15 PM 471 Views
I dare say any non-English novel that would appear on such a list, would be available in translation Legolas - 19/01/2013 10:39:04 PM 359 Views
That seems probable Isaac - 20/01/2013 04:11:22 AM 338 Views
That seems a decent list. Stephen - 20/01/2013 05:26:11 PM 356 Views
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