Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR

Media_httpmedianprorg_ifphy
via npr.org

I have been geeking out on this list all morning. It breaks my geeky heart to see Tolkien at the top. I mean seriously, good story but it's like reading the King James version of the Bible because you like the syntax...which btw is my favorite version. Surprisingly I have only read about a third of this list but with brilliant, funny, smart fast paced sci-fi like "Snow Crash" - which comes in at 26 - makes me wonder who actually voted...besides me?

http://n.pr/ozL2Tl

Posted via email from Things You Can Do

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Saturday Night in the Snow

It's so weird to have a blog. For one thing I never get to write in it. For another when I look back and read what I just read I want to delete everything...it sounds so pompous and high handed, so forgive me, I really must try harder... So I am still slogging through Howard Zinn's People's History, one friend told me about a sort of 'highlights' of Zinn book that really might be easier. The thing is this really is a very good book but I gotta take it in small pieces because it really is a record of one small group of assholes oppressing a large group of less well armed/informed/organized group of others...kind of depressing. I read this book and I really start to think that ever since there was like 2 people and 1 spoon someone had to hit someone else over the head with a rock to get the spoon. Oh and then I read about the Crusades, wow, pretty much blasted any shred of Christianity I was hanging onto for old times sake, right straight out of me...talk about peopl
Read more