{"id":232,"date":"2008-08-15T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T20:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-08-15T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T20:29:15","slug":"i-ask-you-top-5-most-essential-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/news\/i-ask-you-top-5-most-essential-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"I Ask You | Top 5 Most Essential Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/entertheoctopus.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/12\/essential-reads-in-literary-fantasy\/\">Enter the Octopus<\/a>, Matt Staggs asks an interesting question:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">\n<p>I know that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good many attempts to quantify a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153canon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of fantastic literature, but why should we let that stop us now? When I say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fantasy literature, what comes to mind, and why? Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you give me five good examples. After a while, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll wade in and give you mine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I thought it would be fun to ask my readers the same thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<p><strong>What are the five most essential Science Fiction and Fantasy novels?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at his blog, Enter the Octopus, Matt Staggs asks an interesting question: I know that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good many attempts to quantify a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153canon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of fantastic literature, but why should we let that stop us now? When I say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fantasy literature, what comes to mind, and why? Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you give me&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/news\/i-ask-you-top-5-most-essential-novels\/\" title=\"ReadI Ask You | Top 5 Most Essential Novels\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/news\/i-ask-you-top-5-most-essential-novels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I Ask You | Top 5 Most Essential Novels - A Dribble of Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over at his blog, Enter the Octopus, Matt Staggs asks an interesting question: I know that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good many attempts to quantify a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153canon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of fantastic literature, but why should we let that stop us now? 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