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Re: Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading

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Post by m463 »

rohan1024 wrote: post #17

This is great tool to see what everyone is reading but I would refrain from choosing books solely on the ranking shown here because its always better to choose your own books, movies, music, battles,etc,. rather than aggregators or recommendation systems dictating what is good. I am not saying that this tool is doing the same but as a user we all need to be aware of the bias that naturally comes with these kind of se…

I find the commercial top-n lists not useful.

top fantasy: #1 urban vampires #2 harry potter

top scifi: #1 star wars book #2 star trek book

recommended for you: author(s) you bought before

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Post by EdwardDiego »

russellbeattie wrote: post #18

Oof! I'm sorry, but Neil Gaiman's writing is... unpleasant. Purposefully so. A lot of people seem to like this, but I'm definitely not one of them.

What do you mean by that? I just finished Stardust and The Ocean At The End Of The Lane and his writing was quite lovely - but he was going for the fairy tale vibe with those books.

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Post by Finnucane »

dannykwells wrote: post #2

I feel like it would be nice to have a "rising" category - most of these are from heavy hitters/already famous. However, very cool - any thoughts for other categories (SciFi, etc.)?

Perhaps a list for ‘obscure and nearly forgotten fantasy books from the last century’ or ‘why is’t Evangeline Walton on this list dammit’?

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Post by kjs3 »

rohan1024 wrote: post #15
dvasdekis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes please! This is great. Another request for Sci-Fi from me! :)

I have heard good words about The Expanse. I haven't read the books but have seen the show and I think it's fantastic.

The books are quite good as well, but as is common with these things, the books and the show diverge in ways I won't spoil. Expect it and enjoy the books for what they are.

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Post by ta2345252666f »

Was a bit disappointed to see Malazan Book of the Fallen #1 - Gardens of the Moon so far down. It'd be interesting if they took the series as a whole. One example is The Lies of Locke Lamora, I think it's a good first book but almost everyone I've spoken to/read comments from agrees is bottoms out in book 2 and 3. Personally think the same of Rothfuss' work. Conversely a lot of people say MBotF improves past the first book (I think its excellent from the start), so it's a tough list to base the entire experience on.
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