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[Woz]

8.02--The Wealth of Nations--Adam Smith-Flex

The companion piece to Das Kapital, Smith's 1776 book was one of the first to treat economics as a science and it laid the intellectual foundations for the theorys of free markets. Introduced the concept of the "invisible hand" to the lexicon and is part of the underpinnings of all modern Western economies.

Outstanding choice! Was debating on this for my flex but with Dorian Gray not really fitting into my other categories I wasn't able to.

 

[DCThunder]

Since Rikishi isn't here, I'll also post 9.02.9.02--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne-Sci Fi/Fantasy-One of the first true science fiction books, this story of an electric submarine and its crazed Captain Nemo was written in the 1870s and contains inventions that weren't really invented until decades later. It was also an anti-war story as Captain Nemo wanted to sink warships of all nations with the Nautilus. The sequel to this book, Mysterious Island, is also a great story.

 

[Woz]

Since Rikishi isn't here, I'll also post 9.02.

9.02--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne-Sci Fi/Fantasy-

One of the first true science fiction books, this story of an electric submarine and its crazed Captain Nemo was written in the 1870s and contains inventions that weren't really invented until decades later. It was also an anti-war story as Captain Nemo wanted to sink warships of all nations with the Nautilus. The sequel to this book, Mysterious Island, is also a great story.

Nooo.... I was camping this book for this round. Two nice choices in a row there DC.

 

[kupcho1]

8.06 - perry147 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

8.07 - mon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

8.08 - Ivankaramazov

8.09 - DC Thunder - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

8.10 - rikishiboy

9.01 - rikishiboy

9.02 - DC Thunder - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

Skip Ivan again? If so, mon is up

 

[Woz]

8.06 - perry147 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

8.07 - mon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

8.08 - Ivankaramazov

8.09 - DC Thunder - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

8.10 - rikishiboy

9.01 - rikishiboy

9.02 - DC Thunder - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

Skip Ivan again? If so, mon is up

Did you get my 8.3 pick of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

[kupcho1]

8.01 - Assani Fisher - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - Drama

8.02 - cosjobs - The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe - Nonfiction

8.03 - Woz - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. **** - Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.04 - kupcho1 - The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Mystery

8.05 - Uncle Humuna - Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - Short Story Collection

8.06 - perry147 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

8.07 - mon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

8.08 - Ivankaramazov

8.09 - DC Thunder - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

8.10 - rikishiboy

9.01 - rikishiboy

9.02 - DC Thunder - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

Skip Ivan again? If so, mon is up

Did you get my 8.3 pick of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

[mon]

I hate to go so mainstream, but this book is the very definiton of thriller.

9.04 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, thriller

 

[perry147]

9.05 The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

 

[Woz]

Is humana around? I gotta get going here in 5 but can hold out a moment if he is cause then i can pick soon.

 

[Gordo]

9.05 The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

I have been following this thread closely, and wondering if anything like this would go.Fine work.

 

[perry147]

9.05 The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

I have been following this thread closely, and wondering if anything like this would go.Fine work.

Gordon who do you think has the best team so far?

 

[Gordo]

9.05 The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

I have been following this thread closely, and wondering if anything like this would go.Fine work.

Gordon who do you think has the best team so far?

I'll look it over a little closer later tonight. There have been a few titles that I am not familiar with, that I want to learn more about.Overall, very interesting selections all around, and I am sure that I will be using the final draft list to make some additions to my library.

 

[kupcho1]

PM from Ivan has been sitting in my box. At least we've got 1 pick from him:

8.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles - Series

 

[mon]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

 

[kupcho1]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

For the record:mon

1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic

2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex

3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror

4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery

5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy

6 - The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - Short Story Collection

7 - The Rabbit Angstrom Novels - John Updike - Series

8 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

9 - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - Thriller

10 - Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut - Nonfiction

 

[oso diablo]

7.07 / Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell / 2004 / Flex

[cool summary snipped]

Fantastic book.

glad to see this recognized in an all-time book draft.

 

[Ranethe]

Reading this draft was time well spent for me. Very interesting to follow. Hope nobody minds comments. I personally like Perry's draft so far, though there are so many good ones. Several titles i haven't read.One of my favorite books hasn't been chosen yet. Or maybe i just overestimate it's appeal. Will be interesting to see if it pops up.

 

[perry147]

Reading this draft was time well spent for me. Very interesting to follow.

Hope nobody minds comments. I personally like Perry's draft so far, though there are so many good ones. Several titles i haven't read.

One of my favorite books hasn't been chosen yet. Or maybe i just overestimate it's appeal. Will be interesting to see if it pops up.

Now I have to draft a Mystery and I never read mysteries......grrrrrrrrrr

 

[DCThunder]

I'd like to switch my pick of Macbeth from Horror to Drama, and then I'll take my Horror pick. There's only 2 people who have still to pick a Horror book and I doubt that my choice will get taken. Then I'm done with this draft today, as I won't be available again until Monday.So with 10.09, I take The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus-Christopher Marlowe-Horror.Written in 1592, this is the first and most compelling telling of the story of selling your soul to the Devil and the consequences that come with this act. It has been the basis for countless books, operas, (even musical theatre (Damn Yankees, anyone))by writers from Goethe to Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia).

 

[kupcho1]

I'd like to switch my pick of Macbeth from Horror to Drama, and then I'll take my Horror pick. There's only 2 people who have still to pick a Horror book and I doubt that my choice will get taken. Then I'm done with this draft today, as I won't be available again until Monday.

So with 10.09, I take The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus-Christopher Marlowe-Horror.

Written in 1592, this is the first and most compelling telling of the story of selling your soul to the Devil and the consequences that come with this act. It has been the basis for countless books, operas, (even musical theatre (Damn Yankees, anyone))by writers from Goethe to Charlie Daniels (The Devil Went Down to Georgia).

wtf?this is getting ridiculous.

here's an update of where we are (8th round on, and note that we are not really in the 10th round yet, although mon jumped the gun. I know people said its ok to skip, but that's not everyone. calm down folks)

8.01 - Assani Fisher - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - Drama

8.02 - cosjobs - The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe - Nonfiction

8.03 - Woz - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. **** - Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.04 - kupcho1 - The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Mystery

8.05 - Uncle Humuna - Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - Short Story Collection

8.06 - perry147 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

8.07 - mon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

8.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles - Series

8.09 - DC Thunder - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

9.02 - DC Thunder - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.04 - mon - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - Thriller

9.05 - perry147 - The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

10.07 - mon - Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut - Nonfiction

The spaces represent picks that haven't happened yet.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

9.03 Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Nonfiction)

 

[DCThunder]

Sorry kupcho.

 

[perry147]

9.03 Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Nonfiction)

Is this a good read?

 

[kupcho1]

Sorry kupcho.

Probably won't matter, but I don't see any reason to try and finish this in the next few minutes. Likely that your pick will stand.I'll be leaving now and checking once in a while tonight and over the weekend. If people want to pick, fine. If not, that's fine too. PM me or rikishi with picks.

We can clean up/finalize on Monday

 

[IvanKaramazov]

9.03 Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Nonfiction)

Nozick is a political philosopher who argues in favor of the libertarian "minimal state," sometimes called a "night-watchman state." The argument in Anarchy, State and Utopia is divided into three sections. In the first section, Nozick argues against anarchism. He claims that even if we began in an anarcho-capitalist state of nature, a minimal state would arise naturally without violating anyone's rights. Since no rights have been violated, such a state is morally justified.

In the second section, Nozick argues against socialism and other forms of statism. In his view, no growth of the state beyond the "minimal" state is morally justifiable since any expansion necessarily involves an uncompensated infringement on the rights of at least some citizens. He spends a good chunk of this section refuting John Rawls and his writing on this subject.

Nozick realizes that the night-watchman state often isn't viewed as being very exciting and that many people with utopian leanings drift to various brands of statism. In the third section, he tries to illustrate how a framework in which individuals are free to join various communitites and live as they choose is in fact a desirable arrangement that ought to be more compelling for utopian-minded folks.

Anarchy, State and Utopia is a rigorous work of political philosophy. I've read it twice and I still don't claim to have fully mastered every little twist and turn Nozick takes. His thinking is heavily influenced by economics and game theory, and these show up from time to time in his analysis. Still, this is a surprisingly lively book that can be enjoyed by any educated reader. Nozick writes with a dry sense of humor, and is famous for illustrating his arguments with quirky examples and thought experiments (e.g. the sadist with his arm-breaking machine, the man who derives pleasure from leaving books on people's doorsteps, individuals incorporating themselves and selling off shares of their rights, etc.). Nozick is also quite explicit about where he thinks his theory is weak, and such honesty is admirable.

One needn't be inclined toward libertarianism to find this interesting and challenging reading.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

PM from Ivan has been sitting in my box.  At least we've got 1 pick from him:

8.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles - Series

Way to be on the ball there, Chief. For the record, the Oedipus cycle includes:

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus at Colonus

Antigone

Two of these are considered among the best of the Greek tragedies. Aristotle singled out Oedipus Rex as exemplary of the genre, and Antigone is still widely-read (or mis-read) today. Colonus isn't bad either.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

9.03 Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Nonfiction)

Is this a good read?

I thought so.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

from Goethe to Charlie Daniels

There's an interesting comparison.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Eh, I'll give it some thought and go with another category for now.

8.07 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, drama

A drama has to have the element of tension, and there's plenty of it between Nurse Ratched and the residents.

Damn!That's twice you've scooped me.

Should have known from the music thang . . .

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Since Rikishi isn't here, I'll also post 9.02.

9.02--Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Jules Verne-Sci Fi/Fantasy-

One of the first true science fiction books, this story of an electric submarine and its crazed Captain Nemo was written in the 1870s and contains inventions that weren't really invented until decades later. It was also an anti-war story as Captain Nemo wanted to sink warships of all nations with the Nautilus. The sequel to this book, Mysterious Island, is also a great story.

Nice.This was on my very short list for Sci Fi

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Sorry y'all.Shoulda sent 2.Give me a minute . . .

 

[Uncle Humuna]

8.05 "Delta of Venus" - Anais Nin (Short Story Collection)

Wanted to throw in a snippet about this one, since it's not as famous as the others I've chosen:

In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.[/quote

 

[Uncle Humuna]

9.06 "Love in the Time of Cholera" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Drama)

 

[IvanKaramazov]

7.07 / Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell / 2004 / Flex

[cool summary snipped]

Fantastic book. 

glad to see this recognized in an all-time book draft.

Okay, that's it. I have a $25 Amazon reward certificate (I have an Amazon Visa), I need something to read over spring break while Mrs. Karamazov and I vacation in Jamaica, and I'm getting this.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chosen an NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

How is this non-fiction? That kid didn't *really* sail to a magical island in real life, you know.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

I've actually read it enough times in the last year to really believe that it IS non-fiction . . .

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

I've actually read it enough times in the last year to really believe that it IS non-fiction . . .

Y'all should've had a children's book category.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I'm going to go ahead and make my final pick, since everyone below me already has their non-fiction except for humuna, and I don't think he'll pick the same author twice.

10.07 Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut, non-fiction

Throughout the draft, I've picked what I like, my favorite books. I'll continue that here with my favorite non-fiction work. The authors I most enjoy are Vonnegut, Steinbeck, and John Irving. Unfortunately, I didn't draft Irving, although I considered him for my drama selection. The Kesey pick was just too good to pass up. I love all the books on my team, and many of the others drafted. This was a lot of fun.

I actually strongly considered doubling up on Vonnegut, but it wouldn't have been this one.Guess that means I'm the only one who hasn't chose a NF, so I might as well go ahead. Hmmmmmm.

Ooooh ... I've got one! I've got one!

I'll take10.05 "Where the Wild Things Are" - Maurice Sendak (Non-Fiction)

I've actually read it enough times in the last year to really believe that it IS non-fiction . . .

Y'all should've had a children's book category.

Would have been cool.:charleyandthechocolatefactory:

 

[Uncle Humuna]

As previously stated, the number of quality non-fiction choices is huge.

Will stick with one of my 2 favorites:

10.06 "Cadillac Desert" - Marc Reisner (Non-Fiction)

Amazon.com

The definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recommended!

From Publishers Weekly

In this stunning work of history and investigative journalism, Reisner tells the story of conflicts over water policy in the West and the resulting damage to the land, wildlife and Indians. PW stated that this "timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens."

 

[Woz]

9.03 Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick (Nonfiction)

Nozick is a political philosopher who argues in favor of the libertarian "minimal state," sometimes called a "night-watchman state." The argument in Anarchy, State and Utopia is divided into three sections. In the first section, Nozick argues against anarchism. He claims that even if we began in an anarcho-capitalist state of nature, a minimal state would arise naturally without violating anyone's rights. Since no rights have been violated, such a state is morally justified.

In the second section, Nozick argues against socialism and other forms of statism. In his view, no growth of the state beyond the "minimal" state is morally justifiable since any expansion necessarily involves an uncompensated infringement on the rights of at least some citizens. He spends a good chunk of this section refuting John Rawls and his writing on this subject.

Nozick realizes that the night-watchman state often isn't viewed as being very exciting and that many people with utopian leanings drift to various brands of statism. In the third section, he tries to illustrate how a framework in which individuals are free to join various communitites and live as they choose is in fact a desirable arrangement that ought to be more compelling for utopian-minded folks.

Anarchy, State and Utopia is a rigorous work of political philosophy. I've read it twice and I still don't claim to have fully mastered every little twist and turn Nozick takes. His thinking is heavily influenced by economics and game theory, and these show up from time to time in his analysis. Still, this is a surprisingly lively book that can be enjoyed by any educated reader. Nozick writes with a dry sense of humor, and is famous for illustrating his arguments with quirky examples and thought experiments (e.g. the sadist with his arm-breaking machine, the man who derives pleasure from leaving books on people's doorsteps, individuals incorporating themselves and selling off shares of their rights, etc.). Nozick is also quite explicit about where he thinks his theory is weak, and such honesty is admirable.

One needn't be inclined toward libertarianism to find this interesting and challenging reading.

Oustanding choice there Ivan! Most people haven't read him but he's my favorite modern day theorist. I studied under a prof at SJU who studied for 3 years with Nozick. The amount of knowledge there is amazing.

 

[Woz]

BTW kupcho, I'm around now and want to pick for myself. I think I may have a change or two.

 

[kupcho1]

I almost don't want to do this since perry147 was talked out of the pick, but it's been on my list since the get-go and I was really ticked off when I agreed to take him PM earlier and it turned out to be

9.07 / The Silence of the Lambs / Thomas Harris / 1988 / Thriller

I remember reading this novel when it first came out. What an intense book. My future wife was sitting next to me and could actually hear my heart pounding faster. It was obvious that it was an engrossing read.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the story so I won't bother rehashing plot points, but if you only know it from the movie, I'd recommend you pick up the book some time as the book is always better than the movie.

A definitive thriller.

(ps - mon, thanks for talking perry147 into switching Harris novels. I'll consider that a make good for stealing my Christie pick I've not gotten 7 of the 10 books I listed when the draft started. We'll see what happens in the horror category.)

 

[kupcho1]

Where we stand:

1.01 - rikishiboy - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series

1.02 - DC Thunder - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic

1.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror

1.04 - mon - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic

1.05 - perry147 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy

1.06 - Uncle Humuna - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic

1.07 - kupcho1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction

1.08 - Woz - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection

1.09 - cosjobs - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama

1.10 - Assani Fisher - 1984 - George Orwell - Science Fiction/Fantasy

2.01 - Assani Fisher - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Classic

2.02 - cosjobs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic

2.03 - Woz - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic

2.04 - kupcho1 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama

2.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex

2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic

2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex

2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller

2.09 - DC Thunder - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series

2.10 - rikishiboy - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic

3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror

3.02 - DC Thunder - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller

3.03 - Ivankaramazov - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy

3.04 - mon - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror

3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama

3.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy

3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic

3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction

3.09 - cosjobs - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror

3.10 - Assani Fisher - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series

4.01 - Assani Fisher - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction

4.02 - cosjobs - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series

4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror

4.04 - kupcho1 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy

4.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series

4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction

4.07 - mon - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery

4.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama

4.09 - DC Thunder - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection

4.10 - rikishiboy - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller

5.01 - rikishiboy - 12 Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection

5.02 - DC Thunder - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery

5.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery

5.04 - mon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy

5.05 - perry147 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror

5.06 - Uncle Humuna - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery

5.07 - kupcho1 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection

5.08 - Woz - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

5.09 - cosjobs - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection

5.10 - Assani Fisher - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection

6.01 - Assani Fisher - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex

6.02 - cosjobs - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex

6.03 - Woz - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex

6.04 - kupcho1 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series

6.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Thriller

6.06 - perry147 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Flex

6.07 - mon - The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - Short Story Collection

6.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner - Classic

6.09 - DC Thunder - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

6.10 - rikishiboy - The Time Machine - H.G. Wells - Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.01 - rikishiboy - The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - Nonfiction

7.02 - DC Thunder - Das Kapital - Karl Marx - Nonfiction

7.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - Short Story Collection

7.04 - mon - The Rabbit Angstrom Novels - John Updike - Series

7.05 - perry147 - The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Short Story Collection

7.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dracula - Bram Stoker - Horror

7.07 - kupcho1 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - Flex

7.08 - Woz - The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - Series

7.09 - cosjobs - The Firm - John Grisham - Thriller

7.10 - Assani Fisher - LA Confidential - James Ellroy - Mystery

8.01 - Assani Fisher - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - Drama

8.02 - cosjobs - The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe - Nonfiction

8.03 - Woz - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. **** - Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.04 - kupcho1 - The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Mystery

8.05 - Uncle Humuna - Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - Short Story Collection

8.06 - perry147 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

8.07 - mon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

8.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles - Series

8.09 - DC Thunder - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

9.02 - DC Thunder - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.03 - Ivankaramazov - Anarchy, State and Utopia - Robert Nozick - Nonfiction

9.04 - mon - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - Thriller

9.05 - perry147 - The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

9.06 - Uncle Humuna - Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Drama

9.07 - kupcho1 - Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris - Thriller

10.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner - Nonfiction

10.07 - mon - Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut - Nonfiction

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rikishiboy

1 - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series

2 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic

3 - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror

4 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller

5 - 12 Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection

6 - The Time Machine - H.G. Wells - Science Fiction/Fantasy

7 - The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - Nonfiction

DC Thunder

1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic

2 - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series

3 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller

4 - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection

5 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery

6 - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

7 - Das Kapital - Karl Marx - Nonfiction

8 - The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - Flex

9 - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne - Science Fiction/Fantasy

Ivankaramazov

1 - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror

2 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller

3 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy

4 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama

5 - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery

6 - The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner - Classic

7 - The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio - Short Story Collection

8 - The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles - Series

9 - Anarchy, State and Utopia - Robert Nozick - Nonfiction

mon

1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic

2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex

3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror

4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery

5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy

6 - The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - Short Story Collection

7 - The Rabbit Angstrom Novels - John Updike - Series

8 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - Drama

9 - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton - Thriller

10 - Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut - Nonfiction

perry147

1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy

2 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic

3 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama

4 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction

5 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror

6 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Flex

7 - The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - Short Story Collection

8 - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris - Thriller

9 - The Sackets Series - Louis L'Amour - Series

Uncle Humuna

1 - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic

2 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex

3 - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy

4 - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series

5 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery

6 - The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Thriller

7 - Dracula - Bram Stoker - Horror

8 - Delta of Venus - Anais Nin - Short Story Collection

9 - Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Drama

10 - Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner - Nonfiction

kupcho1

1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction

2 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama

3 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic

4 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy

5 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection

6 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series

7 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - Flex

8 - The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth - Mystery

9 - Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris - Thriller

Woz

1 - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection

2 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic

3 - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction

4 - It - Stephen King - Horror

5 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

6 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex

7 - The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - Series

8 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. **** - Science Fiction/Fantasy

cosjobs

1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama

2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic

3 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror

4 - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series

5 - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection

6 - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex

7 - The Firm - John Grisham - Thriller

8 - The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe - Nonfiction

Assani Fisher

1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Science Fiction/Fantasy

2 - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Classic

3 - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series

4 - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction

5 - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection

6 - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex

7 - LA Confidential - James Ellroy - Mystery

8 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez - Drama

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Classic - 10

Drama - 8

Flex - 8

Horror - 8

Mystery - 6

Nonfiction - 10

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 9

Series - 10

Short Story Collection - 10

Thriller - 8

 

[cosjobs]

Eh, I'll give it some thought and go with another category for now.

8.07 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, drama

A drama has to have the element of tension, and there's plenty of it between Nurse Ratched and the residents.

Great pick that I almost flexed

 

[cosjobs]

8.05 "Delta of Venus" - Anais Nin (Short Story Collection)

Wanted to throw in a snippet about this one, since it's not as famous as the others I've chosen:

In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.[/quote

Bonus points for most p0rnographic pic.

 

[cosjobs]

8.05 "Delta of Venus" - Anais Nin (Short Story Collection)

Wanted to throw in a snippet about this one, since it's not as famous as the others I've chosen:

In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.[/quote

Bonus points for most p0rnographic pic.