Heh. I have the exact same opinion as you on Interview. I liked it, but not enough to motivate me to read anything else by her. :)
I may try to do this one too. Interestingly enough, I also hit 19 of these books, though three of my 19 are different from yours. Oddly enough, I also started but not finished The Sword of Shanara. I stopped reading it when I finally got tired of Terry saying to me "This isn't The Lord of the Rings! Really! Its not!" What's worse is I was like 14 and it was still as obvious as all hell...
Lord of Light is kind of as seminal as you get for Zelazny and Science Fiction, save for the Amber Series, which I would have put here. Amber is closer to Fantasy, though, but they have Fantasy novels in here already, so that's no excuse. I liked Lord of Light probably more than you would have, but I think I agree with you on Zelazny's best book, I love The Night of the Lonesome October a lot. I have friends who read that every year in October, one day for each day. Maybe I'll do that someday...
Oh, btw, The Lathe of Heaven is my second-favorite Ursula LeGuin book ever, my first is this obscure book called Roccanon's World which is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the most brilliant pieces of Speculative Fiction there is. I liked The Lathe of Heaven much more than The Left Hand of Darkness which I thought dragged in a number of places.
Anyway, if I've got more to say, I should probably say it in my own post or something. :)
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I may try to do this one too. Interestingly enough, I also hit 19 of these books, though three of my 19 are different from yours. Oddly enough, I also started but not finished The Sword of Shanara. I stopped reading it when I finally got tired of Terry saying to me "This isn't The Lord of the Rings! Really! Its not!" What's worse is I was like 14 and it was still as obvious as all hell...
Lord of Light is kind of as seminal as you get for Zelazny and Science Fiction, save for the Amber Series, which I would have put here. Amber is closer to Fantasy, though, but they have Fantasy novels in here already, so that's no excuse. I liked Lord of Light probably more than you would have, but I think I agree with you on Zelazny's best book, I love The Night of the Lonesome October a lot. I have friends who read that every year in October, one day for each day. Maybe I'll do that someday...
Oh, btw, The Lathe of Heaven is my second-favorite Ursula LeGuin book ever, my first is this obscure book called Roccanon's World which is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the most brilliant pieces of Speculative Fiction there is. I liked The Lathe of Heaven much more than The Left Hand of Darkness which I thought dragged in a number of places.
Anyway, if I've got more to say, I should probably say it in my own post or something. :)