Putting A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA on the list was really dumb. I mean, who hasn't heard of that one. I read it 40 years ago. And the Rothfuss books have been hugely successful, too. As have some of the others. I think the title must mean books that you've never heard of if you've never read any fantasy at all.
I'll have to admit that I pretty much stopped reading SF/fantasy a couple...wel 4...decades back. (I've recently restarted some SF--Charles Stross, Patrick Nielsen Hayden...) So I've only read one of those--the Earthsea Trilogy. And I read that when it came out--late '60s, early '70s.
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I've read the Butler and LeGuin.
I've heard of some of them but they are not my taste.
Jeff
It worries me that they consider Wizard of Earthsea a series "you've probably never heard of."
Putting A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA on the list was really dumb. I mean, who hasn't heard of that one. I read it 40 years ago. And the Rothfuss books have been hugely successful, too. As have some of the others. I think the title must mean books that you've never heard of if you've never read any fantasy at all.
That would probably be me, though I have been reading Lord Dunsany recently. And Charles de Lint. But none of the series.
Jeff
I'll have to admit that I pretty much stopped reading SF/fantasy a couple...wel 4...decades back. (I've recently restarted some SF--Charles Stross, Patrick Nielsen Hayden...) So I've only read one of those--the Earthsea Trilogy. And I read that when it came out--late '60s, early '70s.
FWIW, people who are, say, 15 today probably never have heard of the Earthsea trilogy.
That's a shame, because it's a great series.
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