Dune sucked.:mad:
Yeah, that’s how I felt too. I also didn’t vote for “A Clockwork Orange”, or “Flowers for Algernon”, or “Frankenstein” either for the same reasons. I can see how some people might consider them SF, but for me they just don’t fall into that category. (“Frankenstein” especially, as I first read it in an anthology titled “Three Gothic Novels”.)
I read these two books (along with "The Stars My Destination, which was being discussed in another Cafe Society thread) several months ago, as I’m trying to work my way through this list:
This was my second time to read “A Canticle for Lebowitz”. I first read it ages ago when I was in high school. I think I enjoyed it more this second time through.
“Lord of Light” was fantastic, I thought.
An Indian guy I knew when I worked at the library read my copy, and wanted to mail it to a friend or relative in India, but I didn’t want to risk not getting it back.
I could imagine a Hindi guy screaming and jumping up and down on it. 
Zelazney’s Creatures of Light and Darkness is a similar book with Egyptian mythology, but not as good in my opinion.
I didn’t know about that. Thanks for the recommendation. (I still have about fifty more books from the SF Masterworks list to read though!)
By the way, Jack Kirby did some preliminary sketches for a never-realized “Lord of Light” film. Pretty neat stuff:
I voted for three.
Cat 1: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Cat 2:* Rendezvous with Rama*, A Princess of Mars.
I’ve read a total of 18 1/2 of these (the half being the Foundation trilogy; I lost interest around the middle of the second book). I liked The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 when I read them back around 5th grade, but not when I reread them as an adult; didn’t like The Man in the High Castle at all, and Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the two Heinleins I never finished (tried reading it twice in high school).
Oh - I still have the copy of Dune I bought in '78 or '79, but I still haven’t read it…