SF Signal recently had a Mind Meld on the topic “Which SF/F/H book do you love that everyone else hates? Which SF/F/H book do you hate that everyone else loves?” that was rather interesting and made me think a bit about what mine would be. These are the best conclusions I could come to:
In which I express shocking opinions and defend a C.S Lewis book
6 Comments to “In which I express shocking opinions and defend a C.S Lewis book”
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I liked the Space Trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia.
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I've never actually met anyone who liked Lewis' Space Trilogy (give me a shout out in the comments so we know we're not alone)
Shouting, shouting.
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i've only read the horrendous perlandra and never wanted to read one from that series. *shudder*.
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Hmm.. One my favourite Book series – Chronicles of Narnia!
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I have very strong feelings about Guy Gavriel Kay's books. I started with Lions of Al-Rassan, loved it, loved the Sarantine Mosaic, and loved Last Light of the Sun (I haven't read Tigana or A Song for Arbonne yet).
Fionavar, on the other hand…I HATED it VIOLENTLY. I couldn't even finish the trilogy, and I'm usually compelled to finish series even if I hate them.
I didn't even bother reading Ysabel (?), his latest, because it sounded more Fionavar-esque.
I think he's one of those authors who writes books that are very very different from each other, so it's entirely possible to love some and hate others.
The book I hate that everyone loves is Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Sure, it's probably his best-written book, but the politics of it…ugh. (I can't stand OSC's politics in general, though–but most people seem to be able to overlook them in Ender's Game.)
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Anonymouse, ??!, shall we form a support group?
Space Bar – Perelandra is the worst of the three because of the excesses of religiousness (and the very little else). To be fair. ish.
Obed – I'm glad you enjoyed them.
Holyschist – I'm clearly going to need to read Lions of Al-Rassan then. It's a bit of a relief to know other people don't like Fionavar-apart from the friend I was staying with when I read it, I've never met anyone else who did.
I really liked Ender's Game as a teenager. But I reread it last year (it was one of the books I ended up using in my thesis) and it just made me deeply uncomfortable.