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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8113688" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>In some cases to me it does feel like part of it might be them being problematic. </p><p></p><p>I wonder for some others how much of it is the balance between influential, great for its time, and viewed as great now. Elric is influential, but the first two books seem awful in terms of writing. Would the Harold Shea novels be published today? (In the last few anthologies of short stories I've picked up, it feels like they'd be in the bottom few). </p><p></p><p>For the list of 100 Best Novels they made in 2005, they restricted themselves to starting in 1923 (when Time was first published). That list had 16 from 1923 to 1935, 11 from 1936 to 1945, 20 from 1946 to 1955, 21 from 1956 to 1965, 13 from 1966 to 1975, 6 from 1976 to 1985, 6 from 1986 to 1995, and 7 from 1996 to 2005. That one looked like it was just made up byt the two authors!? The top 100 movies list was also made up by just two authors. </p><p></p><p>I guess that makes this fantasy one stand out for having the authors help. But I wonder if (like using sportswriters to help judge athletes) if they would have benefited from some critics in the pool for this one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8113688, member: 6701124"] In some cases to me it does feel like part of it might be them being problematic. I wonder for some others how much of it is the balance between influential, great for its time, and viewed as great now. Elric is influential, but the first two books seem awful in terms of writing. Would the Harold Shea novels be published today? (In the last few anthologies of short stories I've picked up, it feels like they'd be in the bottom few). For the list of 100 Best Novels they made in 2005, they restricted themselves to starting in 1923 (when Time was first published). That list had 16 from 1923 to 1935, 11 from 1936 to 1945, 20 from 1946 to 1955, 21 from 1956 to 1965, 13 from 1966 to 1975, 6 from 1976 to 1985, 6 from 1986 to 1995, and 7 from 1996 to 2005. That one looked like it was just made up byt the two authors!? The top 100 movies list was also made up by just two authors. I guess that makes this fantasy one stand out for having the authors help. But I wonder if (like using sportswriters to help judge athletes) if they would have benefited from some critics in the pool for this one. [/QUOTE]
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