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30 "What Do You Mean You Haven't Read That?" books for geeks

Oct 28, 2009 09:55

Outlawcoon (with help from a few of us) came up with the following list of 30 classic geek books for our generation. Not good geek books. Not even books that will stand the test of time -- although many of them have and will. Just 30 books that we find surprising to discover geeks haven't read ( Read more... )

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tahnan October 28 2009, 16:03:11 UTC

Some of those are definitely "how did you manage to avoid it?" books. I managed to avoid Jordan by not liking epic fantasy--actually, I hadn't even really heard of it until a number of the books were already out and some of the fans had begun to grumble about how long the whole enterprise was taking.

If only I had similarly managed to avoid Lord Foul's Bane. I'll have to consider (possibly repost) the list at length after I've had lunch, but it seems a pretty sensible Geek List. Though "Hogfather" seems a weird choice--it's in fact the Discworld novel I liked by far the least.

touchstone October 28 2009, 16:14:30 UTC

We went back and forth a few times between either picking individual novels for prolific authors, or just saying 'Something by Pratchett'. Finally decided that giving a specific title was better, though somewhat arbitrary.

lilisonna October 28 2009, 16:22:04 UTC

Hogfather got the nod because it has a movie version. We tossed a number of Discworld novels back and forth. We couldn't really put Color of Magic on the list because we all agreed it was pretty dreadful, and we didn't want someone reading it without fair warning.

Lord Foul's Bane, OTOH, should already have plenty of warning labels attached to it. Yuck.

tahnan October 28 2009, 17:05:37 UTC

"Yuck"? Did you just--did she just say "yuck"? I thought you loved that book? Hell, I remember trying and failing to read that book twice because you loved that book!

touchstone October 28 2009, 18:45:10 UTC

No, it's the Donaldson sci-fi series ('Gap') that she loves, I think.

tahnan October 28 2009, 20:47:39 UTC

No, really, trust me. I love the Gap series too, but I read that independently of her reading it (or I might have read her copy of the first book). And I know she always loved "The Mirror of Her Dreams / A Man Rides Through". But I cannot imagine why I would have ever tried to read that horrid boring tedious o-god-please-strike-me-illiterate Covenant series if it hadn't been because she liked it.

lilisonna October 28 2009, 21:08:54 UTC

You read my copy of the first book.

And the SECOND series of the Covenant books were actually pretty cool. I read those before encountering the HAAAATE that is the first series. Maybe I commented on the Covenant books in general, and you picked up the Evil First Series?

If it was my fault, I apologize profusely.

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