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TOP 100 FANTASY books

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  • 25-02-2009 9:16pm
    #1
    Cardinal Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭


    Hi,what do you think of their top 100,can't say that i agree.Yes feist,gemmel,rr martin and tim powers are among my favourite fantasy writers.
    I started hobb but could'nt stick with him.Might give him another chance.Seems to be highly praised on this site.

    They have LOTR at numer 3(loved the films).But could not get into the books ,started LOTR 3 times,but gave up.


    Who do you think that they should have included, but left out?.
    http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fantasy-books


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    Aridstarling
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    I've never read Hobb or Le Guin but the other three in the top 5 I'd agree with. But I'd have Feist and Jordan in there too. WOT at 22 is a bit of a disgrace really.


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    Sean Templar
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Sean Templar


    a lot of the first eight are rubbish, nine and ten are good reads,i don't know how these web sites make up their lists.I can't see how terry pratchett,tolkien or grahame can be in the top ten.They can;t be seriousssssss?.


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    Tawfee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Tawfee


    would have thought Pullman's His Dark Materials would have made higher than 39, certainly should have been higher than Harry Potter...


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,992 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Some very odd choices there - I'd be pretty disgusted if it turned up on my forum! I mean putting the "Ascendants of Estorea" ahead of Tad William's magnificent "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" trilogy? The Duncton Chronicles 50 places ahead of "The Gunslinger"? Pullman below Potter and many others? Some nice choices - the Gormenghast trilogy and Tim Power's excellent "Anubis Gates" but the list is too much of an oddity to feel in any way a definitive guide to the best of fantasy.

    In fact the selection of authors is odd - was it a public vote whereby fans of some authors pimped those books?
    I started hobb but could'nt stick with him.Might give him another chance.Seems to be highly praised on this site.
    Robin Hobb is a she. Her real name is Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden. She chose Robin Hobb purposely as an androgynous pseudynom. Very good writer but I wouldn't put "The Liveship Traders" at #1 (although it is an excellent series).


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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Tawfee wrote: »
    would have thought Pullman's His Dark Materials would have made higher than 39, certainly should have been higher than Harry Potter...
    For that, and numerous other reasons I feel that particular list is all over the place.


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    Shryke
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    The list is all over the place but as for what's on it it is pretty good. I don't agree with rankings, placing one before the next so I tend to ignore the numbers when I look at these things. There are plenty of very good titles.


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    DapperGent
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    There's some seriously duff stuff on that list.


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