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kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sunday Paper 2015.02.15

When 8 of his 100 are the Foundation "trilogy" and he highlights Foundation over Foundation & Empire, I grow suspicious.

When it takes him 7 Ender books and he likes the first one, I grow more suspicious.

When he stops the Sprawl Trilogy at the first book, my trust is gone.

But when the dude lists all four books of the Hyperion series as "favorites" I can dismiss the dude without having to read a word he says. It's more like "what I learned by cherry-picking science fiction for the most awful books."





briandmyers  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I really enjoyed all 4 of the "Hyperion" books, but I have to agree with you anyway - the fact that "Slaughterhouse-Five" is on that list, and not in bold, tells me a lot right there.

And yeah, when he implies he likes "Ender's Game" better than "Speaker for the Dead", I have to wonder if he even read all those books.

kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tell me what you enjoyed about them because I gave up about 200 pages into the first one and have yet to have a discussion with someone who hasn't shouted me down as an abject idiot for not seeing their divine beauty immediately. It would be refreshing to hear someone list their merits without calling me a jackass first.

briandmyers  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://hubski.com/pub?id=36628

It wasn't the best thing I ever read, but I did enjoy it.

kleinbl00  ·  3572 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough. I think the over-wrought dialogue and ponderousness of it was too much for me, but I appreciate your take.