Lists are so much fun – mainly because you get to say – who picked that?
I have to question though any list that ranks the Shanara trilogy above the Dispossessed (one of my all time favorite in a take to a desert island way books) although they did score points by including Vonnengut. The thing that struck me is how old most of the old most of the books on the list are. Except for the plentiful Neil Gaiman, I’m not sure how different the list looks from one that would have been compiled when I was in college myself, which is kind of disconcerting.
I agree with you about the lack of YA books – no Harry Potter was the one that leapt to my mind. Not to mention that I always thought of Stardust as a YA book – at least it’s sold in that section (I just bought it) in my local B & N. Only one Connie Willis and no Michelle West were my pet peeves, and while they do have the Mists of Avalon (my least favorite MZ Bradley novel) nothing from the Darkover series. And I would have loved to see Joanna Russ’ The Female Man but I guess that would have been too much to expect.
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I have to question though any list that ranks the Shanara trilogy above the Dispossessed (one of my all time favorite in a take to a desert island way books) although they did score points by including Vonnengut. The thing that struck me is how old most of the old most of the books on the list are. Except for the plentiful Neil Gaiman, I’m not sure how different the list looks from one that would have been compiled when I was in college myself, which is kind of disconcerting.
I agree with you about the lack of YA books – no Harry Potter was the one that leapt to my mind. Not to mention that I always thought of Stardust as a YA book – at least it’s sold in that section (I just bought it) in my local B & N. Only one Connie Willis and no Michelle West were my pet peeves, and while they do have the Mists of Avalon (my least favorite MZ Bradley novel) nothing from the Darkover series. And I would have loved to see Joanna Russ’ The Female Man but I guess that would have been too much to expect.