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Brown Rat · 16th June 2006, 02:18 AM

I'm with the short-list and no-must crowd. Unless you're going to write a dissertation or thesis, reading is supposed to be enjoyable not mandatory. Find an author you like. Read him or her until you get sick or run out of his or her novels. Find another. Read. Repeat. There's no race. There's no test at the end.

Maybe I'm feeling cranky (scratch that, I'm definitely feeling cranky), but all over this board I see lists, lists, and more lists.

I'm being unreasonable, I know. PoeticExplosion asked for a list and asked for musts, and everyone kindly obliged. So I should shut up and not bang on about it.

(Ha. More banging: maybe it's just that J.D. put two Le Guin books on his list, and neither was the one I'd include: The Left Hand of Darkness. I am sooooo petty!)

16th June 2006, 02:18 AM	#12 (permalink)
Brown Rat wandering & wondering Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 945	Re: Classic SF Primer I'm with the short-list and no-must crowd. Unless you're going to write a dissertation or thesis, reading is supposed to be enjoyable not mandatory. Find an author you like. Read him or her until you get sick or run out of his or her novels. Find another. Read. Repeat. There's no race. There's no test at the end. Maybe I'm feeling cranky (scratch that, I'm definitely feeling cranky), but all over this board I see lists, lists, and more lists. I'm being unreasonable, I know. PoeticExplosion asked for a list and asked for musts, and everyone kindly obliged. So I should shut up and not bang on about it. (Ha. More banging: maybe it's just that J.D. put two Le Guin books on his list, and neither was the one I'd include: The Left Hand of Darkness. I am sooooo petty!)