Top 100 flowchart

[ivyfic]

NPR put out a list of top 100 sci fi and fantasy books, ranked by listeners.

Someone turned it into a flowchart. An enormous, enormous flowchart. That I've spent too long looking at.

Comments

[airspaniel.livejournal.com]

This is fully amazing. I'm sort of seized by the desire to have my dad print it out in poster size and use it as a reading guide.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

It's pretty awesome, isn't it? I've read 25 of the books on the list (if I count the one my mom read to me that I don't remember, and if I count series I've only read part of (hello, Xanth)). This particular list has my respect, though, since, as it's a listener generated list, it includes the Hand of Thrawn trilogy, which is truly great writing, but no panel of judges would ever deign to include a media tie-in. It also has Outlander, but I guess I'll let that slide.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I looked at the top 100 list, but I've been resolutely not looking at the flowchart lest I not get all the things I need to do at work done today.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Be strong!

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite is that the only answer to "Enjoy stories about orphaned farm boys?" is "tough." Welcome to fantasy!

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

:) And if you go along the thread to romance, it says like time travel? No? Tough.

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

This is a great thing of greatness. And now I must resist reading any of these books for several months. Bah.