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What if there were 50 more standalones that you could read that likely would be quite good? Larry Send a noteboard - 06/12/2009 06:12:53 AM
I like series because if it's good... then I know that I still have a bunch more happy books to come.

When it's one good book I usually wish there were more.


I just finished writing down 50 of those from 2000-2009 that I'll post on the OF Blog shortly and maybe here as well. Of course, I don't want to spoil people, since I likely will be mostly absent for the rest of the month starting in a couple of days.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Six best fantasy novels? - 04/12/2009 05:54:54 AM 1664 Views
Best fantasy authors - 04/12/2009 07:01:48 AM 1360 Views
Have you read Robin Hobb? *NM* - 04/12/2009 04:01:23 PM 671 Views
I have, and wasn't really impressed - 04/12/2009 10:08:25 PM 1175 Views
You definitely read the wrong stuff first - 05/12/2009 12:12:07 AM 1277 Views
Agreed. - 09/12/2009 09:55:12 PM 1175 Views
Only read two. Book of the New Sun definitely deserves that spot. Mieville, not so much. - 04/12/2009 08:06:45 AM 1350 Views
Interesting. - 04/12/2009 05:21:04 PM 1214 Views
Why Mieville, if I may ask? *NM* - 04/12/2009 08:33:43 PM 686 Views
I didn't mean that to be a reply to you, but still - 05/12/2009 03:15:36 AM 1329 Views
No worries. - 05/12/2009 03:52:11 AM 1235 Views
But the list was for favorite books, not favorite or most important authors - 05/12/2009 10:25:13 AM 1172 Views
It was for "best" books. I realize that has a lot of meanings, though. *NM* - 05/12/2009 08:37:01 PM 528 Views
Hm... good point - 06/12/2009 02:19:13 AM 961 Views
Glen Cook is radically overrated. - 05/12/2009 04:09:07 PM 1322 Views
Well, he's at least part of the wave that humanized fantasy. - 05/12/2009 08:36:29 PM 1055 Views
In the US, yes. Elsewhere, no, because they didn't know about him. - 06/12/2009 04:36:31 PM 1203 Views
Interesting. - 07/12/2009 02:15:37 AM 1134 Views
Two years? It was published in 2000... *NM* - 05/12/2009 09:03:33 PM 440 Views
Nine years is like two. *NM* - 06/12/2009 12:25:49 AM 615 Views
I've yet to read a Gene Wolfe. - 06/12/2009 02:26:54 AM 1107 Views
Yes, yes, yes. - 06/12/2009 02:35:45 AM 1050 Views
You know I directly added almost all of those Wolfe quotes there, right? - 06/12/2009 05:26:40 AM 1180 Views
I just find Mieville's prose exceptionally standard. - 06/12/2009 07:25:05 AM 1171 Views
Isn't that almost a contradiction of terms there? - 06/12/2009 07:45:47 AM 1109 Views
It's remarkable for its normalcy because so many people praise it? - 06/12/2009 09:11:18 AM 1062 Views
Who the heck are these people? *NM* - 04/12/2009 12:46:48 PM 665 Views
I've never heard of any of them either.... *NM* - 05/12/2009 02:58:11 AM 874 Views
Literati - 06/12/2009 05:27:28 AM 1032 Views
Yeah you're so much better than us *NM* - 06/12/2009 12:00:27 PM 602 Views
I'm very ambivalent about A Wizard of Earthsea - 04/12/2009 05:18:00 PM 1120 Views
Possibly has to do with the times in which it was written/read - 06/12/2009 05:29:27 AM 1076 Views
My Best Six best fantasy novels - 04/12/2009 07:44:12 PM 855 Views
Re: My Best Six best fantasy novels *NM* - 04/12/2009 07:45:25 PM 499 Views
oops! *NM* - 04/12/2009 07:46:34 PM 552 Views
Re: Six best fantasy novels? - 04/12/2009 09:06:18 PM 1222 Views
I really need to get around to reading Mists of Avalon. - 04/12/2009 09:50:54 PM 1008 Views
Calenture - 05/12/2009 12:44:14 AM 973 Views
Ooh, I need to get my hands on Calenture. *NM* - 06/12/2009 02:27:34 AM 590 Views
And ha! I thought it might be you. *NM* - 06/12/2009 02:29:13 AM 555 Views
I'll eventually get to those in the near future - 06/12/2009 05:31:29 AM 1106 Views
I don't read or buy books anymore. - 06/12/2009 11:45:33 PM 1105 Views
I understand that - 07/12/2009 12:55:46 AM 1156 Views
Okay, I'll give it a shot - 04/12/2009 10:12:47 PM 1192 Views
You might more mythopoeic material in your fantasies, don't you? *NM* - 04/12/2009 11:22:33 PM 622 Views
Mythopoeic? Who...me? - 05/12/2009 02:19:03 AM 997 Views
Yes, you - 05/12/2009 03:51:25 AM 1131 Views
The Blogger Seems to Agree With You. - 05/12/2009 10:10:07 PM 1134 Views
Book of the New Sun is very early 80's and is almost inarguably a classic of the genre. - 06/12/2009 12:26:55 AM 1153 Views
Never Read It, But All Accounts Support That View. - 06/12/2009 02:44:17 PM 1280 Views
Bending the terms a bit... - 04/12/2009 11:21:33 PM 1233 Views
n/a *NM* - 05/12/2009 12:46:45 AM 523 Views
I like Grossman's list a lot more than Henry's. *NM* - 04/12/2009 11:41:36 PM 562 Views
Here are mine, but I probably haven't really read enough fantasy to have a top 5 - 05/12/2009 12:16:13 AM 1018 Views
Have you tried any standalones recently? - 06/12/2009 05:33:41 AM 1094 Views
I always end up wanting more - 06/12/2009 05:53:11 AM 1090 Views
What if there were 50 more standalones that you could read that likely would be quite good? - 06/12/2009 06:12:53 AM 1172 Views
The only one on his list I would think about agreeing with is Meiville. - 05/12/2009 03:11:25 AM 1124 Views
Have you tried Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves yet? - 06/12/2009 05:34:48 AM 1030 Views
No list is complete without Goodkind *NM* - 05/12/2009 07:59:22 AM 634 Views
Sorry, I can't help it- no *porn* list is complete without Goodkind... *NM* - 06/12/2009 02:21:22 AM 479 Views
For me....: - 05/12/2009 10:36:42 AM 1176 Views
He certainly has a specific kind of taste. - 06/12/2009 02:20:30 AM 1029 Views
Pfft! - 06/12/2009 06:54:24 AM 938 Views
Who are you asking?? - 07/12/2009 08:09:25 PM 1049 Views
Might give this a go myself... - 06/12/2009 02:24:52 AM 1083 Views

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