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[Lane Haygood]

Also, NPR only seems more intellectual because its competition is pop music and "morning shows" run by two aging burnouts named Jack Dingo and Toadstool. 

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On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree about the gulags!
> 
> Anyways, this list is especially embarrassing since NPR listeners have a (vague) reputation for being intellectuals, and a cut above the typical reader.  Guess not.  I see a lot of stuff on the list that I was really into when I was 8-10 (Terry Brooks, David Eddings, etc.), then quickly outgrew when I realized that there was vastly superior science fiction and fantasy out there.  I think a lot of the voting that went into this list was fueled by the nostalgia of people who never "grew-up" out of the formative junk that a lot of us cut our sci-fi teeth on as kids.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has shaken my faith in the correctness of democracy.
> 
> I mean, would it be SO terrible to force people into good literature
> gulags? Eighteen hours a day, reading away, lulled to silence by the
> gentle crack of the overseer's whips?
> 
> I mean, people put "The Sword of Truth" and those drecky "Forgotten
> Realms" novels ahead of Wolfe and Mieville? They NEED re-education.
> 
> LH
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Greg Bates <gregory.a.bates at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, at least it beat the EU Star Wars tripe. By one spot. :-(
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Antonin Scriabin
> > <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books
> >>
> >> The Book of the New Sun clocked in at #87.  Appalling original list, and
> >> terrible final results, but at the end of the day, maybe people will check
> >> out Wolfe after seeing his book listed here.
> >>
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