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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I read Neverness and liked it a lot, but I managed to miss the rest. Must remedy that lack at some point.
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Neverness is a great classic.
The Broken God series ending with
War in Heaven is very good but does not compare - I found the main character which is the son by his half-sister
of the one in
Neverness completely unrealistic. Still a worthwhile read and
War in Heaven is one of the saddest sf books I've read though the ending is uplifting to some degree.
For me the most read book is most likely
Use of Weapons by IM Banks which is my top standalone sff book ever and I've read maybe 15, maybe 20 times in 15 years or so. For sf series
Night's Dawn is top of the finished ones and
HH top of the continuing ones and I've reread the 3500+pages - if you include short stories and encyclopedia - of
Night's Dawn several times, and the
HH novels many times each - hard to count but I estimate
On Basilisk Station 10+ times,
At all Costs 10+ times since these are still my top two.
Right now the only standalone that may top
UoW in say 15 years is
Anathem which I've already read 5 times but it's too early to tell.
Of non sff some books I've read many times including recently are the Dumas cycles of the Revolution, Louis XIII-XIV, Renaissance,and Empire in that order of preferemce- first volumes are
Joseph Balsamo, Three Musketeers, Queen Margot, Whites and Blues respectively