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[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <josturgess at ...> wrote:
> 
> ah these top 25/100/all time lists, always good for a laugh/ageist 
> shock....
> 
> last 25 years, not really but then my memory is short/failing too.
> 
> I feel they should have done it by genre, would have produced a more 
> interesting result - and some potential authors I may have missed. 
> I'm going away to look at my bookshelves and see what they've left 
> out (or is lower down the list)...off the top of my head there's 
> Jasper Fforde, Lindsey Davis, Janet Evanovich, George RR Martin, 
> Kazuo Ishiguro, Alistair Reynolds, CJ Sansom and very recent but 
> impressive Marina Lewycka
> 

That's cheating.
You're only allowed one.
And a specific book from that one author, too. 

Makes it bloody difficult, if not downright impossible.
I've been considering the problem on and off throughout the 
afternoon and just when I thought I'd decided, I remember 
another one - and another, and another.

Even if it were divided into genres, how can one choose between 
William Gibson's 'Neuromancer',  Neal Asher's 'The Skinner',
Vernor Vinge's 'A Deepness in the Sky', Theodore Roszak's
'Flicker' and Mary Russell's 'The Sparrow'? 
Or John Lawton's 'A Little White Death', George V. Higgins' 
'Kennedy for the Defence', Deighton's "Hook, Line and Sinker'
trilogy and ... well, fill in any quality whodunnit/spy author you like.
Grrr!

Kneasy
P.S.
Agree about Pratchett, he didn't hit top form until about his fifth
book - and Alistair Reynolds, got to be 'Diamond Dogs' but does it
count as a stand-alone book?
Decisions, decisions.