Interesting. I'd probably vote (going on memory) for F451 - it was much the best written of the books you list. Better tied to history, better tied to the world it was written in, far more illuminating of the world of those days, and the world which came after.
Mind you, every one of those books was a marvel. I did adore The Caves of Steel - but, unlike Sturgeon, every character of Asimov's "sounds" the same when it speaks. Sturgeon, at least, had the ability to make each character sing in its own voice. Childhood's End taught me how pathos really feels - not so easy a lesson to a boy as young as I was then.
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Date: 2004-06-28 05:26 pm (UTC)Mind you, every one of those books was a marvel. I did adore The Caves of Steel - but, unlike Sturgeon, every character of Asimov's "sounds" the same when it speaks. Sturgeon, at least, had the ability to make each character sing in its own voice. Childhood's End taught me how pathos really feels - not so easy a lesson to a boy as young as I was then.
Really, marvelous books. All of them.