| Author | Message | ||
     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.110.69 |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy- part-one | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yup, that's certainly one of my all time favourite Ramsey reads. A superb novel. Surprised to see Weaveworld on that list. I always thought that was too flabby and overwritten. However, I am in the minority there. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
That's quite a list and I'm proud to be on it, but for heaven's sake, no Ballard? Good to see the wonderful Unconsoled included, though. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
There's a whole section devoted ot Ballard, Ramsey. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-jg-ballard | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Ah! Fair enough! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
1,000 novels we MUST read? Bloody hell, that's about 3 years out of my life. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
At my current rate I might never see them through.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
I know. I'm having trouble with "10 Haiku you MUST Browse Before you Die". | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
How are they going to police the reading of this list? If I don't read some of the books will I be visited by shady operatives? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.88.98 |
Yes. It said at the bottom. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
What if we buy the books second hand so we can show the operatives when they visit. And then we get an implant fitted that links our brains to Wikipedia so we can give details when asked... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
No Bradbury??????? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
His short fiction contains his best work, don't you think? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
But Something Wicked and Fahrenheit are really so very good... and Dandelion. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.130.250 |
Fahrenheit 451 is Bradbury's best novel, I think. Death Is a Lonely Business is the second best. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.196.109 |
Oh. Yeah. I singed my copy of Fahrenheit 451. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I would hope most of us have read most of the books on the list already. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Um, I've read twenty. I've read bits of some of the others on the list and own a few more though, so am getting there. It's funny but it's barely mentioned, how good the book The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons is. It's still clanging round in my memory like a bad dream after all these years since reading. Up there with Hill House, I think, and one of my tight handful of pure greats. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Altman should have filmed it. Or someone with the skill to carry off its surface innocence and black centre. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
I,m gonna have to break one of my rules and re-read The Influence. gcw | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
What rule is that, GCW? Never read the Influence again? I'm reading Peter Ackroyd's HAWKSMOOR just now, finishing it. And a collection of Suasn Hill's short pieces, THE BOY WHO TAUGHT THE BEEKEEPER TO READ. For what it's worth, I'd've preferred to have seen MIDNIGHT SUN on that list rather than THE INFLUENCE. I think INFLUENCE is Ramsey's most accessible book, so maybe that's why it's there instead. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.197.244 |
No Swan by Naomi Campbell? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
"What rule is that, GCW? Never read the Influence again?" I haven't re-read a whole book in years Lynchy...It's just that everyone raves about The Influence & I don't remember it as well as some others, so I would like to reappraise it. There could have been any number of reasons...girl trouble...argument with dad...who knows? Hey, it was the 80's! gcw | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
>>Hey, it was the 80's! A phrase that covers a multitude of sins . . .! Yeah, INFLUENCE is well wortha reread. But so are all Ramsey's novels, really. Still say it should've been MIDNIGHT SUN on the list though. But then plenty of books I think should be on it are not, so who knows? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
A good number of the books on that list are out of print, aren't they, by the way? Secondhand bookstores, where have you gone to. . . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jan/06/secondhand-books | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.240.155.122 |
If you don't have a good selection of secondhand book shops, you can always try bookfinder.com, or even ebay. I've gotten a few good deals off both. I've read 10 of the books on that list, and strangely I don't really feel like I've missed a lot because there are quite a few books that could easily be on the list but aren't. No Bradbury or Tiptree? How about Barry Malzberg? If the last decade has shown us nothing else, it's proved that we live in Malzberg's world -- failed space programmes, lunatic astronauts, incompetent men in positions of power, and an unhealthy preoccupation with sexual dysfunction. |