Classic.

Isn't this like the center square in Bingo? Also, could have used 50% less walking.

Much funnier than "Mostly Harmless Econometrics

Among the greats. Also recommend Dirk Gently series

Anyone seen my towel?

Ender's Shadow was so much better! Bean is the man!

Ender's Shadow is better, but this one is still pretty dang great.

I disagree – I liked this better than Ender's Shadow (which couldn't have been as good without this as a base), but the rest of the Shadow series clearly dominates the Ender Quatrain.

Tops for me. Only the first two books in the series ever happened.

I'm totally dubbing the TV show as cannon from now on.

Still angry about book 5.

Great start, lot's of potential, but it really fizzled out for me in the end

I both like and dislike this book simultaneously.

It gets pretty strange if you go further. Still remember of the last line of the last book though. I believe it's something like "The future would be decided by people like her. Hermaphrodite. Transducer. Different.

Classic, great, stay-up-all-night reading.

Original trilogy rocks, and book one is a favorite of mine.

What a great tale, each book builds on the last and introduces something new that was planned for

Love the description of the winter town with the saran wrap on the windows and the meat pastie.

Starts decently, runs out of steam in the late middle, then Brandon Sanderson swoops in, changes it up, and it gets exciting again!

The robot short stories are super fun. Especially love the "get lost" sideplot.

Weird man's sexland for half of it.

Almost recommended this to Mr. Knapp, then I finished reading it. Glad I didn't.

Loved it in high school... but that might just be the orgy scenes

Best scene is obviously when the jerk melts his strings at the pub. Second best is cheating to get into wizard college. Third is working on his wizard PhD dissertation.

FINISH THE DAMN THIRD BOOK.

The phrase "deedlee balls" stuck with me.

Ugh.

Responsible for 17 Blade Runner movies.

Loved it.

So so so depressing

First one is decent then it gets both boring and weird.

Made it through book one, then gave up halfway through book two. Waiting for the TV adaptation to claim I read them all.

Haaaal!

^ agreed

Finally read this one – enjoyed it much more than anticipated.

Totally agree. Stephen King can bring boredom.

Has a few thrills but goes on forever.

Miniseries starring Parker Lewis Can't Lose is gold.

Samurai!

What a wild ride from start to finish. Explodes in your brain.

How is this not a movie yet?

Surreal and very dated. Probably still worth it for some chapters though.

Hey, guess what? Religion and war ruin everything. Also maybe women.

Did not like.

My favorite fight scene is at the start when he's fighting the skinnies and just tossing random nuke grenades.

Thanks to Heinlein for giving us the basis for a 90210 in space critiquing a modern militaristic society.

Libertarianism, bitches.

Totally agree. Top 5.

This one is a thinker -- top 5 of the list.

Old school fun - just skip over the pages and pages of fish names.

Loved the moving rocks, the reality pattern, and how only one place matters but you can go play in other places if you want.

70s drug trip all the way through.

Kinda basic, forgettable fantasy.

It's slow no doubt, and kinda depressing.

I'm not sure there are any Brandon Sanderson books that wouldn't be awesome as movies. This should be a TV show at least.

Sex with a bald chick!

LeGuin likes to write a lot about gender stuff. Here's it's a planet full of ambisexuals.

King Arthur legend with a good dose of sadness.

Book was enjoyable. TV show was total crap.

Clarke's books are all short stories that he drew out for an extra 150 pages. Still haunting.

Wish I could read it again the first time. My second favorite fight scene when they're fighting those hunting robots that shout light.

Thinking about inventing a time machine so I can forward in time to hit myself in the head and make my future self forget this series just so I can read it again.

Movie might be better.

Super interesting, wonder how much of their side factoids are true.

Top 5 from high school

I agree with John, but very different. The book is all about the primary source government documents. The movie is about zombies swarming up walls.

Great book, great movie.

Movie made me want to punch a goat. Just call it something else. Should have been an HBO miniseries with individual stories for each episode.

Strange (and short).

Haven't read, but have a signed DVD that I may have watched at least 100 times

Love the idea of time dilation determining what your technology is when you arrive at the battle.

Agreed – cool way to deal with time travel.

All Discworld books are comforting

Such a miserable protagonist. Not very fun to read.

So enjoyable! Read them all.

Soooo crap. Do not finish.

Written in passive voice, this novel seems boring. (But many exciting things happen.)

Yeah but the BBC show is fun

Great premise, incredibly true to book show

The first series is sort of the regular fantasy. It gets awesome when you read the Empire Trilogy. A young woman becomes head of her house in a male world and fights for revenge for her murdered family.

Kind of exciting actually. He really is a barbarian that doesn't give a f---.

It has some quirks, but overall I'd rate it just forgettable fantasy.

The main character is infuriating.

Give me MORE!

Best ongoing series in this list

I went in with really low expectations, and I was very surprised. It's not too complicated, but interesting world and there are some meaningful choices. Drizzt is rarely in danger though.

I really liked this one. Top 5 for me.

About 4 different books at different times.

My favorite of the list. Classic 50s feel.

Interesting premise, forgetable story

I enjoyed this. It's hard to get used to at first since there seems to be no true protagonist. After you realize it started out as a DnD campaign and these are settings players would encounter it makes more sense. Still has so many great memorable things. The betrayal of the Bridgeburners. The dude with the sword that captures badguys souls and has them dragged around in a train inside. The empire of cannibals with no people anywhere other than the border. The Chain of Dogs. The concept of tarot card houses as the sources of power populated by regular people. The trees that bind. The warriors that are dying out. Did I mention Chain of Dogs!?! Heck yes.

This one should be higher.

Pretty egregious writing in this one. Really needed an editor.

Bracken. Bracken bracken bracken, bracken bracken bracken bracken – bracken, bracken bracken bracken.

Though provoking. Basically really a book about the intersection of philosophy and string theory.

Think I need to read it again to appreciate it fully.

Trash. He wrote it as a creative exercise combining Pokemon Go and the Lost Roman Legion (sounds cool, right?). There is a cool bit about aliens, but it's the same usual farm boy saves the universe because he's special.

Fun, light fantasy. A little cringey but full of good action

Delightfully unpredictable. Wild and rich. Didn't even realize it was so far in the future there were no fissile/combustible materials left until well into it.

So. Good. Admiral Thrawn for president!

A fair bit of it is the author's wishfulfillment (I want a young scotsman, okay make him a virgin, okay make him good at sex, my daughter won't listen to me, okay rape her). Still enjoyed it.

Accurately communicated the boredom of being immortal.

I had fun reading this one. Magic sword, what's not to like?

Top 5, even if you aren't that into short stories.

I liked this and would like her to go back and write some more in the world. But apparently she never returns to old worlds on principle.

Fantastic. Read all of them.

Need moar.

Robot detectives before they were cool.

Very boring but also memorable. Dancing sufis on Mars. The guerilla terraforming. The gravity train around the moon.

Surprisingly not as good as I hoped -- I usually am a sucker for the apocalypse

Pretty bleak. The hypno moths are awesomely terrifying. Sort of like the industrial revolution if the labor movement had never happened.

Very cool world building.

Worst thing on the list I think.

Think I made it through the 17th when I was in junior high. If you're gonna put Piers Anthony on the list, for God's sake, put the Incarnations of Immortaltity series.

Do you like getting hit in the head with your religion? Here ya go.