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First Thomas Covenant trilogy comes in at #58
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Well well well. Some interesting stuff there. Thanks for the link Domne. :D Nice to see you around.

Very interesting list...some excellent and well deserved inclusions, although unsurprisingly I don't think the order is right. Lots of Heinlein, lots of Stephenson. Some odd ones that should have been whole series rather than individual books, and some series that could as well have been left out.

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Oh...uh...that list is from 2011 I see. :lol:

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Oh wait...this should be in the gen sci-fi forum, shouldn't it? :D

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Way to triple post, Av. :P

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kevinswatch wrote:Way to triple post, Av. :P

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Wow, I can't believe how many of these I have read! I'm pretty impressed with myself. :D (Some I read 30 or more years ago, like Flowers for Algernon and Fahrenheit 451.)
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Hmmm. I didn't notice it's from 2011. It just popped up in some newsfeed this week.
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kevinswatch wrote:Way to triple post, Av. :P

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Agreed! Give people some time to have a General discussion on this, sheesh!;)
Hey, it takes a whole extra click to edit a post, plus the extra wait time for loading and stuff.
deer of the dawn wrote:Wow, I can't believe how many of these I have read! I'm pretty impressed with myself. :D (Some I read 30 or more years ago, like Flowers for Algernon and Fahrenheit 451.)
Yeah, I've read a lot of them. Own quite a few too. (Not the bad ones...Brooks... ;) )
Domne wrote:Hmmm. I didn't notice it's from 2011. It just popped up in some newsfeed this week.
No worries...the net is notoriously filled with dated content. Still a nice list.

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Yes, ending on CS Lewis' Space Trilogy was a good landing, although I would have placed it farther up the list, myself.
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I've always known it as "the Cosmic Trilogy" myself.

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Should we move the post to a different forum? We probably had a post on the list in the SciFi/Fantasy forum when it first came out. I'm inclined to leave this one here.
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I'm fine to leave it here. :D Doesn't pay to be too predictable y'know. ;)

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Domne wrote:First Thomas Covenant trilogy comes in at #58
www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-p ... tasy-books
I have only read 24 of them.

but I have read Watership Down at least 8 times. it is my favorite book.
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