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[glasseye]

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1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 85% (102)

2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 79% (92)

3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 69% (77)

4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick 64% (67)

5. Neuromancer — William Gibson 59% (66)

6. Dune — Frank Herbert 53% (54)

7. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov 52% (54)

8. Foundation — Isaac Asimov 47% (47)

9. The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett 46% (46)

10. Microserfs — Douglas Coupland 43% (44)

11. Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson 37% (37)

12. Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)

13. Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson 36% (36)

14. Consider Phlebas — Iain M Banks 34% (35)

15. Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein 33% (33)

16. The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick 34% (32)

17. American Gods — Neil Gaiman 31% (29)

18. The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson 27% (27)

19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)

20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

Comments

[reasie.livejournal.com]

You beat me. Can't say I've read anything below number 8. And saying I've read Dune is kinda lying - I've read the first two chapters, a couple times. Never was able to get into that book.

And I own American Gods and I had to read Snowcrash for a class... but no. not read. C'est la guerre.

[tejolote.livejournal.com]

Match on all those except Neal Stephenson...it's not that I haven't tried, really. He just makes me weep bloody tears of boredom within five seconds flat.

Plus, I've also read Watchmen (in one sitting, god forbid. I'm amazed I didn't immediately thereafter slit my wrists.) And I've read Trouble with Lichen. I'd thought it was terribly obscure for some reason, so I'm sort of surprised it made the list. I stumbled on in a used bookstore fairly recently and made off with it on a whim, because the name was too delicious to pass up.

I have not read:

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Microserfs, Watchmen, Consider Phlebas, The Man in the Hight Castle, American Gods, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Trouble with Lichen. Hmmm. Do I have a new reading list? I have even analyzed multiple titles on this list in an honors course on sci-fi - eek!