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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1348775" data-attributes="member: 8447">Okay, going down the list...Hobberdy Dick  -- never even heard of it...The Hobbit -- a lovely book, not as good as LotR, of course, but still funThe Books of Wonder -- It's Dunsany.  It's good  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Tales of Averoigne -- Smith is very atmospheric, Old School Gothic (a la Byron and Radcliffe) mixed with post-WWI sickness.  Disturbing in some ways, but a lovely read.The Book of Three Dragons -- never readWatership Down -- may all the powers preserve me from reading anything by Adams again; both this and Shardik bored me beyond tears.The Night Land -- never readThe Face in the Frost -- never even heard of itA Wizard of Earthsea -- one of the quintessential works of fantasy fiction, a lovely meditation on the difference between the ability to do a thing and when should actually act, beautifully written, a world that I would love to turn into a game, I cannot say enough for this whole seriesThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath -- probably my favourite Lovecraft work, obviously his nod to Dunsany.  Weird, wild, and very, very good.The Worm Ouroboros -- Another pre-Tolkein bit, it is strange, at times stilted, and very atmospheric; this is the grandfather of Tanith Lee's writingBridge of Birds -- I am a rare soul, in that I loathed this book.  Didn't bother with the sequels.A Voyage to Arcturus -- Never even heard of itSilverlock -- tried to read it when it came out in paper, never finished it, thought of going back to it many times but kept putting other books ahead of itFafhrd and the Gray Mouser -- fun stuff!  I love these two!  They don't always win, but they rarely are down long enough to really hurt.  It's all about Issek of the Jug!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Collected Ghost Stories -- Mixed bag (as with all collections of short stories), but generall quite excellentThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld -- Never cared for McKillip either...  The Well at the World's End -- This is very Old School, in that Morris was essentially trying to bring back the Middle Ages into Victorian England.  An interesting read, but very stilted by modern standards.As with all "Best" lists, I have my agreements and my disagreements, but overall, I'd say this is a decent overview grouping.</blockquote>

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