| The NPR Poll [message #44225] |
Fri, 12 August 2011 03:15  |
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 Kathy_S
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Registered: October 2008
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I'm rather curious as to what the NPR poll would look like if we were voting. I know I'd be more likely to hunt down the ones I haven't read if they came from you all... Here are the 10 I ended up submitting, in NPR alphabetical order.
Deed of Paksenarrion, Elizabeth Moon (shocked it didn't make the 100)
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey (though I reread Dragonsong & Dragonsinger more often)
Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre (though I wish the Starfarers quartet had also made the list)
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (haven't decided favorite of that series - maybe Something Rotten)
Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Shattered Chain trilogy, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Song for the Basilisk, Patricia McKillip (I read her Riddlemaster trilogy most often, but that probably was too young adult for the list -- and Basilisk does stick out in my mind because I was so startled by part of the ending first time through.)
Sunshine, Robin McKinley (Somehow I suspect we'd put it higher than #92.)
The Uplift Saga, David Brin (I assume this includes Startide Rising and The Uplift War.)
The Valdemar Series, Mercedes Lackey
[Updated on: Fri, 12 August 2011 03:17]
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| Re: The NPR Poll [message #44241 is a reply to message #44225 ] |
Fri, 12 August 2011 13:13  |
harpergray
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Registered: March 2011
Location: Sweden |
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I don't remember exactly, but I think my list was (or rather, if it wasn't this then it should have been):
The Worm Ouroboros, E.R. Eddison
Sunshine, Ms McKinley
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde*
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
The Princess Bride, William Goldman
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Stardust, Neil Gaiman
1984, George Orwell
Slaughter-house Five, Kurt Vonnegut
My choice was slightly limited by the fact that some of the books I wanted to pick I could not, in good conscience, since I had not read them. Many still stand on the too-read list, but for every book that comes off, several more go on. I don't know how I've come this far without reading Lord of the Rings, but...it's on the list. Codex Alera tempted me sorely, because I love The Dresden Files so much and wanted to see Jim Butcher make the list...he did anyway, so now I really do have to read Codex. 
*Other series found their way onto the list...why didn't they list Thursday Next as a series? Sigh.
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