SF Masterworks series: How many have you read?

[Svartalf]

If you manage to fap to completion to anything that guy wrote, you're way hornier or easier to please than I ever was... and I did not think that was humanly possible.

[Brian Peacock]

Well some of us don't have as much trouble ....erm.... sustaining our interest as others....

[Audley Strange]

With Moorcock you would've been better soaking a paperback addition, rolling into a tube and using it like a fleshlight or joycup or something. The emission would probably improve the writing.

[The Curious Squid]

Commonly I've read mostly P.K. Dick's works (and frankly most of them are terrible) and recently Dune to see what the fuss was all about. which was surprisingly well thought out and shows a depth of knowledge about Sci-Fi, Islam Oil wars and surprisingly Nuns without being flashy. I won't be reading any of the other novels.

Couldn't agree more about Philip K Dick, his work is way too dry and even dull. I liked A Scanner Darkly and like a lot of the film adaptations but his writing isn't as good as the hype.

Dune is excellent, the rest of the series isn't quite as good but it's still brilliant. I'm on Chapter House Dune and like it enough that I may even read the Brian Herbert additions.

I don't know why you would write off the others on the list, Cities in Flight was good, in fact, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the only one I haven't enjoyed so far.

[Seth]

There's only 21 I've not read, most of them Phildickians. Never really got his metier.
I still have my SF paperback collection in boxes from the move, more than 20 boxes comprising more than 1800 books going clear back to stuff from the 40's my parents bought before I was born.

I may decide to sell the collection someday, as I'll never be able to read them all again.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's only 21 I've not read, most of them Phildickians. Never really got his metier.
I still have my SF paperback collection in boxes from the move, more than 20 boxes comprising more than 1800 books going clear back to stuff from the 40's my parents bought before I was born.

I may decide to sell the collection someday, as I'll never be able to read them all again.

Or you could donate them to a children's hospital or some such?

[Audley Strange]

Commonly I've read mostly P.K. Dick's works (and frankly most of them are terrible) and recently Dune to see what the fuss was all about. which was surprisingly well thought out and shows a depth of knowledge about Sci-Fi, Islam Oil wars and surprisingly Nuns without being flashy. I won't be reading any of the other novels.

Couldn't agree more about Philip K Dick, his work is way too dry and even dull. I liked A Scanner Darkly and like a lot of the film adaptations but his writing isn't as good as the hype.

Dune is excellent, the rest of the series isn't quite as good but it's still brilliant. I'm on Chapter House Dune and like it enough that I may even read the Brian Herbert additions.

I don't know why you would write off the others on the list, Cities in Flight was good, in fact, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the only one I haven't enjoyed so far.

A Scanner Darkly is as far as I'm concerned his best, most coherent work with real characters and heart and deals with his chosen subject matter perfectly.

Dune is excellent, but again I've no desire to plough through it all.

I'm not writing them off btw, I just have little desire to read a lot of science fiction, which might seem bizarre considering I recommended Anathem, but that's because I'm a fan of Stepehnson. I dunno, I just find that most of the sci-fi I've read (which I admit isn't every author but a fair deal) they're more interested in the sci- than the fi-.

[Brian Peacock]

There's only 21 I've not read, most of them Phildickians. Never really got his metier.
I still have my SF paperback collection in boxes from the move, more than 20 boxes comprising more than 1800 books going clear back to stuff from the 40's my parents bought before I was born.

I may decide to sell the collection someday, as I'll never be able to read them all again.

A fine legacy for the grandkids.

[sifaka]

Meh.... Dan Simmon's Hyperion Series is not even there. Mediocre list is mediocre.

[Svartalf]

Meh.... Dan Simmon's Hyperion Series is not even there. Mediocre list is mediocre.

I do think I saw Hyperion.

[sifaka]

Oops yes, you're right it was in the New Design section.