Elizabeth posted an update 9 years, 11 months ago ·
I’m such a sucker for a best-of list – what do you think of this one?
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It’s a lot of the usual suspects, with a strong literary bias. I would have picked a different Pratchett (I don’t think the first few are as good as some of the later ones).
Yeah, I feel like whoever put together the list hadn’t actually read the Discworld series but knew it was popular so just put the first one. Small Gods is one of my faves.
It’s interesting how many people say that. It’s almost the only one I don’t have a copy of, because it’s one of my least favourites – more cynical than the others, for one thing. But I realise I’m very much in a minority.
My personal favourite is Carpe Jugulum, because Granny Weatherwax is so hardcore.
When I grow up I want to BE Granny Weatherwax.
Oh, if only.
This strikes me as a list of SFF by people who don’t actually read SFF. Nothing by Octavia Butler? No _The Sparrow_? No Iain M. Banks? Pish.