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9593490 No.9593490 [Reply] [Original]

What does /lit/ think?

>> No.9593502

>>9593490
1. A lot of the questions are just leading questions leading to the author's descriptions of the books in question.
2. I believe that it's impossible to predict what you're going to like in fantasy/sf. I love Tolkien, Bester, Lem, Banks, and individual books like Neuromancer. I hate just about all other fantasy I've slogged through. I hate Heinlein and a lot of "classic" sf. Reading a description of a book is not going to help me decide whether to read it.

>> No.9593538

>>9593490
Far too anglo-centric
Having a "First contact" question where none of the answers is Lem is painful.

>> No.9593553

>>9593538
The bulk of sf is English language

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>>9593502
>Fantasy or SF?
>I'd rather not be seen in that area of the bookstore.
NPR is /lit/.

>> No.9593588

>>9593538
>Far too anglo-centric
implying this is bad

>> No.9593591

>>9593588
>being close-minded is a good thing

>> No.9593595

>>9593490
Ask r/books. I posted some of our charts and they recommended completely different shit from different eras that wasn't just taken off top 100 lists and slapped onto a chart which was a big fucking surprise to me because that's what the bulk of their recs are

>> No.9593601

>>9593591
lets be honest all other cultures are shit compared to western culture

>> No.9593628

>>9593601
>Western culture is anglo culture

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>>9593601
>Western culture