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[Woz]

9.08 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - MysteryAgain I chose a book regarded as one of the best. A must read for those of us thinking about the legal profession.

 

[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

Bonus points for most p0rnographic pic.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

9.08 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

Again I chose a book regarded as one of the best. A must read for those of us thinking about the legal profession.

Was |<->| this close to taking this one for my drama . . .

 

[cosjobs]

For my Sci-Fi, I'm taking the third Vonnegut book in the draft, which I consider a steal, since its my favorite: The Sirens of Titan.

The Sirens of Titan is centrally concerned with the meaning of life. Or rather, the meaninglessness of life. Winston Niles Rumfoord is a wealthy playboy who takes his privately funded spaceship and drives it straight into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, just to see what will happen. He also takes his dog along for company. What happens is that he is smeared from here to the far end of the galaxy. He and his dog materialize -- or mostly materialize -- whenever their waveforms intercept Earth or some other similar obstacle in the vast vacuum of space. From the perspective of "punctual" humans, Rumfoord and Kazak (the dog) appear at their former home in Newport, Rhode Island, for about an hour once every 59 days. From Rumfoord's perspective, however, time no longer has quite the same meaning. Rumfoord, you must understand, is now able to see everything that ever has happened or will happen. This puts him in a rather unique position to create his own religion, complete with guaranteed miracles, since he is effectively able to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Based on his new and fairly complete comprehension of the universe, the religion he creates is the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

 

[cosjobs]

Since several others have made their R10 selections, I'm going to go ahead and snag my mystery. SO many great mysteries and authors of the genre, I will be remiss in neglecting one of my favorites, whomever I choose. As recommendations to lurkers, I must mention a few that are stellar authors, yet unmentioned here: James Cain, Robert Parker, Ross Thomas, Rex Stout, Johnathon and Faye Kellerman, Carl Hiassen, John Dunning have all penned at least one novel that deserves on this list, often many.

But for my money, if I had to choose only one, its got to be Elmore Leonard and Get Shorty is arguably his best. If you liked the movie, you'll love the book. The dialogue sparkles, the characters are fully fleshed and vivid, and the humor is rampant.

 

[rikishiboy]

For my round 8 I will take..The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammett....can't go wrong with Sam Spade.

 

[cosjobs]

For my round 8 I will take..The Maltese Falcon by Dashielle Hammett....can't go wrong with Sam Spade.

Nice. I was really torn on whether to take Hammett and he sure as hell deserves to be in this draft.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

For my Sci-Fi, I'm taking the third Vonnegut book in the draft, which I consider a steal, since its my favorite: The Sirens of Titan.

The Sirens of Titan is centrally concerned with the meaning of life. Or rather, the meaninglessness of life. Winston Niles Rumfoord is a wealthy playboy who takes his privately funded spaceship and drives it straight into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, just to see what will happen. He also takes his dog along for company. What happens is that he is smeared from here to the far end of the galaxy. He and his dog materialize -- or mostly materialize -- whenever their waveforms intercept Earth or some other similar obstacle in the vast vacuum of space. From the perspective of "punctual" humans, Rumfoord and Kazak (the dog) appear at their former home in Newport, Rhode Island, for about an hour once every 59 days. From Rumfoord's perspective, however, time no longer has quite the same meaning. Rumfoord, you must understand, is now able to see everything that ever has happened or will happen. This puts him in a rather unique position to create his own religion, complete with guaranteed miracles, since he is effectively able to predict the future with 100% accuracy. Based on his new and fairly complete comprehension of the universe, the religion he creates is the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

 

[rikishiboy]

For my 9.1 pick I will select something that is basically a fun read....once i read this book I was hooked on the author. So for my drama pick I will take Contest by Matthew Reilly

 

[kupcho1]

Update on the draft. Assani Fisher is up, and since he still needs a horror, I'm going to hold off on making my 10th round pick.

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 - Drama

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

8.10 - rikishiboy - The Maltese Falcon - Dashielle Hammett - Mystery

9.01 - rikishiboy - Contest - Matthew Reilly - Drama

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

9.08 - Woz - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

9.09 - cosjobs - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.02 - cosjobs - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Mystery

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

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

10.09 - DC Thunder - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Horror

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

8 - The Maltese Falcon - Dashielle Hammett - Mystery

9 - Contest - Matthew Reilly - Drama

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 - Drama

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

10 - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Horror

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

9 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

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

9 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - Science Fiction/Fantasy

10 - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Mystery

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

Classic - 10

Drama - 10

Flex - 8

Horror - 8

Mystery - 9

Nonfiction - 10

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 10

Series - 10

Short Story Collection - 10

Thriller - 8

 

[Woz]

10.03 - The Magus - John Fowles - ThrillerThe Magus was a book written in the 70's which is fastly becoming a classic. I don't know how many of you have a read it, but it is the basic plot structure that the movie "The Game" (with Michael Douglas) is loosely based on. It's about an incredibly cynical man in his twenties who has little respect for much but who thinks of himself as a rebellious thinker. This man moves off to a small island in Italy and there encounters a one of the most dynamic characters I have ever read about. Nothing is as it seems and Fowles does a great job with the protagonist's character development as the plot is continuously spun. Outstanding read as it is both intellectual, thrilling, and entertaining with a touch of romance.

 

[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.

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.

Have you read it? As much as I like his fiction, I liked this even more. Sort of sums up his philosophies from his other books.

 

[mon]

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.)

Perry's going to be pissed. Have you read Red Dragon?

 

[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.)

Perry's going to be pissed. Have you read Red Dragon?

Yes, and while I think both are top notch thrillers, I liked Silence better.

 

[perry147]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

 

[cosjobs]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

 

[DCThunder]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

 

[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.

Have you read it? As much as I like his fiction, I liked this even more. Sort of sums up his philosophies from his other books.

One of the few that I haven't.Will definitely put it near the top of the short list

(which, due to this thread, is now quite long )

 

[perry147]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

 

[perry147]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

Look through my book collection I found The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, would anyone object to be using this as my Mystery?

 

[randall146]

9.08 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

Again I chose a book regarded as one of the best. A must read for those of us thinking about the legal profession.

This would have been 1.01 for me.

 

[kupcho1]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

Look through my book collection I found The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, would anyone object to be using this as my Mystery?

I think of Bourne more as a thriller.Google Edgar award winners. Surely there will be something there that you can use.

 

[perry147]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

Look through my book collection I found The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, would anyone object to be using this as my Mystery?

I think of Bourne more as a thriller.Google Edgar award winners. Surely there will be something there that you can use.

Thanks - I got one (and I have read it) 10.06 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre Mystery

 

[rikishiboy]

For my final pick I will take a monster of a book...War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

 

[cosjobs]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

I posted half dozen great mystery authors in my previous post.

 

[rikishiboy]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.

But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

Any of the Encyclopedia Brown, Hardy Boys, or Nancy Drew is available. I enjoyed reading the first 2 as a kid.

 

[Woz]

I am going to go ahead and pick my last book.

10.06 The Godfather - Mario Puzo - Mystery

What exactly was the mystery in this novel?

I agree. It really stretches the definition of "mystery" to call The Godfather" a mystery. I guess the mystery is what happened to the canolli.

Well, it's still sort of a mystery why anybody thought making Godfather III was a good idea.

OK ok ok Godfather was not a mystery- I withdraw it as my mystery book.But I do not read mysteries.. can I have some hints in a PM?

Look through my book collection I found The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, would anyone object to be using this as my Mystery?

I think of Bourne more as a thriller.Google Edgar award winners. Surely there will be something there that you can use.

Thanks - I got one (and I have read it) 10.06 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre Mystery

Wow, nice choice. I almost went with this or "Little Drummer Girl" but couldn't pass up on to kill a mockingbird

 

[rikishiboy]

here is a quick personal analysis of my books

1. Foundation Series---I have enjoyed many series, mostly from Sci/fi. My requirements were a)I liked the books and b) it was a series not books with 1 character that is the same. I knew many prefer the Lord of the Rings, but simply put I prefer Foundation...which IMO reads easier.

2. Don Quixote---- On retrospec I could of waited, because there are so many good classics....but I am happy to get one that I really enjoyed and this is a great book.

3. Frankenstein---- Growing up I loved King and Koontz. With The Stand taken and not really sure which Koontz book stands above his others (Midnight was the first one I read, so it stands out to me) I decided to take a more traditional monster book.

4. The Davinci Code--- I read this before I knew it was so popular. I am not religious, but enjoy reading books of the nature..regardless of the pt. of view. In the end I felt the combo of good story and controversey made for a good pick.

5. 12 Red Herring--Jeffery Archer is one of my favorite authors. He can create certain ending twists to his stories that are just brilliant. He has also done jail time, so this gives my team alittle bad boy image.

6. The Time Machine--- One the first great Sci/Fi books. This one has withstood the test of time and has thus became atime machine itself.

7. The Origin of Species----Like the Davinci Code this one has created controversey. Today this theory (I believe in) has influenced how we view the world around us and ourselves.

8. The Maltese Falcon--A good mystery needs agood detective. Enter Sam Spade.

9. Contest---A new author ,but one of my favorites....sometimes one must play who they really like....his stories are action packed and really fun to read.

10. War and Peace---Yes it is long. However it is well written and is about a time that is pretty cool. I thought it nice to finish my draft with another classic book that gets mentioned not only for the book itself but its length as well.

 

[jetmonkey]

3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic

Steal of the draft. I would have opened with this at 1.01

 

[mon]

I liked Silence better.

What did you like better about it? No one has ever gotten into a killer's head as well as Harris in Dragon. The only near rival would be Peter Suskind's Perfume.

 

[kupcho1]

I liked Silence better.

What did you like better about it? No one has ever gotten into a killer's head as well as Harris in Dragon. The only near rival would be Peter Suskind's Perfume.

I venture to say that it's impossible to truly know who has "gotten into a killer's head" at any time, much less in one novel versus another. That said, I think the beauty of Silence was that you weren't in Gumb's head, you were in Clarice's. Starling was an interesting character and somewhat novel choice for hero of the book. The relationship between her and Hannibal (btw, the malicious rumor of a book called Hannibal is just that, it never happened) was also very good.

Don't get me wrong, both books are very good, but I've just always preferred Silence (but would have gone with Red Dragon as a worthy backup).

 

[mon]

I liked Silence better.

What did you like better about it? No one has ever gotten into a killer's head as well as Harris in Dragon. The only near rival would be Peter Suskind's Perfume.

I venture to say that it's impossible to truly know who has "gotten into a killer's head" at any time, much less in one novel versus another. That said, I think the beauty of Silence was that you weren't in Gumb's head, you were in Clarice's. Starling was an interesting character and somewhat novel choice for hero of the book. The relationship between her and Hannibal (btw, the malicious rumor of a book called Hannibal is just that, it never happened) was also very good.

Don't get me wrong, both books are very good, but I've just always preferred Silence (but would have gone with Red Dragon as a worthy backup).

I disagree about knowing whether an author as "gotten into a killer's head", as it's all there in black and white, but no matter.Maybe our preference has something to do with which we read first, as this sometimes makes a difference. Or if you saw the movie first (I didn't). Or could be just personal preference, who knows.

 

[kupcho1]

10.04 / Books of Blood / Clive Barker / 1984, 1985 / Horror

"I have seen the future of horror and its name is Clive Barker." - Stephen King

The Books of Blood are a 6 volume set of some of the most spine-tingling horror ever written. I first read these stories almost 20 years ago and many of them have stayed so fresh in my mind that it's like I finished them yesterday.

Some of my favorites include (whited out to avoid spoilers, in case you want to read them):

The Inhuman Condition

A young man named Karney and his friends beat up a vagrant for fun. Karney steals a strange knotted piece of string he finds on the vagrant. A keen fan of puzzles, Karney undoes the knots that evening, not knowing that in doing so he is releasing demons who proceed to kill off his friends. When he realises what he has done, Karney has to seek out the vagrant for his help.

The Midnight Meat Train

A man, Leon Kaufman, falls asleep on a New York subway train, only to wake up at a secret station beyond the end of the line. Kaufman encounters a man named Mahogany, who has killed and butchered several people and hung their bodies up on the train. Kaufman fights Mahogany and kills him in self-defense, but then the train doors open and strange malformed creatures board the train. The creatures eat the dead passengers, then force Kaufman to serve them as their new butcher, cutting out his tongue to ensure his silence.

Dread

A young student, Steve, becomes acquainted with an older student named Quaid. Quaid is an intellectual with a morbid fascination with fear. He eventually shows Steve how he, Quaid, kidnapped a vegetarian woman and imprisoned her in a room without any food but for a steak, only releasing her when she finally overcame her dread of eating meat in order to prevent starvation. Steve becomes Quaid's next candidate for his experiments, held immobile in dark silent room, forcing him to relive a childhood period of deafness. Steve is driven insane and eventually returns to Quaid's house and butchers him with an axe. Quaid's experiments, all along, were to try to help him understand his own fear of being axed to death by a deadly stalker, but ironically his experiments in phobias made his own come to life.

Rawhead Rex

An ancient, malevolent giant, Rawhead and Bloody Bones, is accidentally awakened in the town of Zeal. Rawhead goes on a rampage, killing people until it is defeated with the help of its only weakness, a menstruating woman.

Intense and disturbing, the stories in the Books of Blood rarely, if ever, have happy endings. And despite the outlandish premises contained therein, Barker still manages to impart a degree of realism that most other horror authors never attain.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

10.04 / Books of Blood / Clive Barker / 1984, 1985 / Horror

that most other horror authors never attain.

Ah, nice pick. I remember "Rawhead Rex" and the intro about how the books were all supposedly etched into somebody's flesh.

 

[mon]

10.04 / Books of Blood / Clive Barker / 1984, 1985 / Horror

"I have seen the future of horror and its name is Clive Barker." - Stephen King

The Books of Blood are a 6 volume set of some of the most spine-tingling horror ever written. I first read these stories almost 20 years ago and many of them have stayed so fresh in my mind that it's like I finished them yesterday.

Some of my favorites include (whited out to avoid spoilers, in case you want to read them):

The Inhuman Condition

A young man named Karney and his friends beat up a vagrant for fun. Karney steals a strange knotted piece of string he finds on the vagrant. A keen fan of puzzles, Karney undoes the knots that evening, not knowing that in doing so he is releasing demons who proceed to kill off his friends. When he realises what he has done, Karney has to seek out the vagrant for his help.

The Midnight Meat Train

A man, Leon Kaufman, falls asleep on a New York subway train, only to wake up at a secret station beyond the end of the line. Kaufman encounters a man named Mahogany, who has killed and butchered several people and hung their bodies up on the train. Kaufman fights Mahogany and kills him in self-defense, but then the train doors open and strange malformed creatures board the train. The creatures eat the dead passengers, then force Kaufman to serve them as their new butcher, cutting out his tongue to ensure his silence.

Dread

A young student, Steve, becomes acquainted with an older student named Quaid. Quaid is an intellectual with a morbid fascination with fear. He eventually shows Steve how he, Quaid, kidnapped a vegetarian woman and imprisoned her in a room without any food but for a steak, only releasing her when she finally overcame her dread of eating meat in order to prevent starvation. Steve becomes Quaid's next candidate for his experiments, held immobile in dark silent room, forcing him to relive a childhood period of deafness. Steve is driven insane and eventually returns to Quaid's house and butchers him with an axe. Quaid's experiments, all along, were to try to help him understand his own fear of being axed to death by a deadly stalker, but ironically his experiments in phobias made his own come to life.

Rawhead Rex

An ancient, malevolent giant, Rawhead and Bloody Bones, is accidentally awakened in the town of Zeal. Rawhead goes on a rampage, killing people until it is defeated with the help of its only weakness, a menstruating woman.

Intense and disturbing, the stories in the Books of Blood rarely, if ever, have happy endings. And despite the outlandish premises contained therein, Barker still manages to impart a degree of realism that most other horror authors never attain.

Barker is a master of horror. I've read a couple of his, but forget which ones.

 

[kupcho1]

OK, almost done. We need a couple of picks from Assani Fisher and 1 from Ivankaramazov

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

8 - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - Mystery

9 - Contest - Matthew Reilly - Drama

10 - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Flex

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 - Drama

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

10 - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Horror

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

10 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre - Mystery

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 García Márquez - 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 - The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris - Thriller

10 - The Books of Blood - Clive Barker - Horror

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

9 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

10 - The Magus - John Fowles - Thriller

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

9 - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - Science Fiction/Fantasy

10 - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Mystery

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

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 - Drama

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

8.10 - rikishiboy - The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - Mystery

9.01 - rikishiboy - Contest - Matthew Reilly - Drama

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 García Márquez - Drama

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

9.08 - Woz - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Mystery

9.09 - cosjobs - The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut - Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.02 - cosjobs - Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard - Mystery

10.03 - Woz - The Magus - John Fowles - Thriller

10.04 - kupcho1 - The Books of Blood - Clive Barker - Horror

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

10.06 - perry147 - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre - Mystery

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

10.09 - DC Thunder - The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Horror

10.10 - rikishiboy - War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Flex

Classic - 10

Drama - 10

Flex - 9

Horror - 9

Mystery - 10

Nonfiction - 10

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 10

Series - 10

Short Story Collection - 10

Thriller - 9

 

[IvanKaramazov]

The Trial by Franz Kafka -- Flex

I was originally planning on taking Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway for this pick, but my sense of justice was outraged by seeing The Trial drafted earlier and then unceremoniously dropped. This pick is kind of like claiming Rudi Johnson off waivers when you already have Alexander, Larry Johnson, and Edge in your backfield. You don't really need him, but you feel a moral obligation to pick the guy up anyway.

Like most of Kafka's work, this book is open to a variety of different interpretations. I tend to see this mainly in a religious light, and Kafka surely intended the novel to operate on that level. As the story opens, Joseph K is "arrested" for some undisclosed crime. He doesn't know what he did wrong, he doesn't know what punishment he faces, he doesn't know who to appeal to for help, and he doesn't know how to set things right. The parallel with original sin is obvious. On one hand, we can see K's struggles with the legal system as a stand-in for the absurdity and futility of Jewish law.

While Kafka was Jewish, he was also familiar with Christian theology and the story can be viewed through that lens as well. In one especially well-constructed scene, K takes his case to an advocate who has some pathetic connection to a judge. K is not allowed to speak to the judge directly, but must speak instead to the advocate, who relays his pleas to the judge. So K kneels down and whispers his case (prayers) to the advocate (a priest or saint) who in turn whispers K's story to the judge (God) who is facing the other way and either is asleep or totally indifferent to K's plight. Again, Kafka presents a bleak view of man's alienation from the divine.

None of Kafka's three novels (The Trial, The Castle, America) were ever finished. The Castle, in fact, ends literally in mid-sentence. While The Trial has a beginning, a middle, and an ending, the fact that some characters are poorly fleshed out and abruptly disappear from the story, like Fraulein Burstner, add a surreal and dream-like element to this work. A sense of unknown, irrational dread also pervades this book, just like most of the other stuff Kafka has written. If you're the kind of person who enjoys those dreams where you show up for class only to realize that you've missed the entire semester and now here you are in your underwear preparing to take a final exam you haven't studied for, Kafka is the writer for you.

 

[mon]

The Trial by Franz Kafka -- Flex

I was originally planning on taking Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway for this pick, but my sense of justice was outraged by seeing The Trial drafted earlier and then unceremoniously dropped. This pick is kind of like claiming Rudi Johnson off waivers when you already have Alexander, Larry Johnson, and Edge in your backfield. You don't really need him, but you feel a moral obligation to pick the guy up anyway.

Seriously considered picking his short stories for the collection. Also considered O Henry.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

The Trial by Franz Kafka -- Flex

I was originally planning on taking Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway for this pick, but my sense of justice was outraged by seeing The Trial drafted earlier and then unceremoniously dropped. This pick is kind of like claiming Rudi Johnson off waivers when you already have Alexander, Larry Johnson, and Edge in your backfield. You don't really need him, but you feel a moral obligation to pick the guy up anyway.

Like most of Kafka's work, this book is open to a variety of different interpretations. I tend to see this mainly in a religious light, and Kafka surely intended the novel to operate on that level. As the story opens, Joseph K is "arrested" for some undisclosed crime. He doesn't know what he did wrong, he doesn't know what punishment he faces, he doesn't know who to appeal to for help, and he doesn't know how to set things right. The parallel with original sin is obvious. On one hand, we can see K's struggles with the legal system as a stand-in for the absurdity and futility of Jewish law.

While Kafka was Jewish, he was also familiar with Christian theology and the story can be viewed through that lens as well. In one especially well-constructed scene, K takes his case to an advocate who has some pathetic connection to a judge. K is not allowed to speak to the judge directly, but must speak instead to the advocate, who relays his pleas to the judge. So K kneels down and whispers his case (prayers) to the advocate (a priest or saint) who in turn whispers K's story to the judge (God) who is facing the other way and either is asleep or totally indifferent to K's plight. Again, Kafka presents a bleak view of man's alienation from the divine.

None of Kafka's three novels (The Trial, The Castle, America) were ever finished. The Castle, in fact, ends literally in mid-sentence. While The Trial has a beginning, a middle, and an ending, the fact that some characters are poorly fleshed out and abruptly disappear from the story, like Fraulein Burstner, add a surreal and dream-like element to this work. A sense of unknown, irrational dread also pervades this book, just like most of the other stuff Kafka has written. If you're the kind of person who enjoys those dreams where you show up for class only to realize that you've missed the entire semester and now here you are in your underwear preparing to take a final exam you haven't studied for, Kafka is the writer for you.

Wasn't this already taken?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

The Trial by Franz Kafka -- Flex

Wasn't this already taken?

cosjobs drafted it under Horror but then changed his pick.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

The Trial by Franz Kafka -- Flex

Wasn't this already taken?

cosjobs drafted it under Horror but then changed his pick.

Guess I should have actually read your write-up

 

[mon]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

Vonnegut

Steinbeck

John Irving

Herman Hesse

Tom Robbins

John Updike

Ray Bradbury

Douglas Coupland

Richard Brautigan

J. R. R. Tolkien

 

[perry147]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

Vonnegut

Steinbeck

John Irving

Herman Hesse

Tom Robbins

John Updike

Ray Bradbury

Douglas Coupland

Richard Brautigan

J. R. R. Tolkien

MineJ. R. R. Tolkien

Tom Clancy -The old stuff

Stephen King

Kenneth Patchen

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

In no particular order:Fyodor Dostoevsky

Chuck Palahniuk

Vladimir Nabakov

Flannery O'Connor

Franz Kafka

CS Lewis

Thomas Pynchon

Ernest Hemingway

William Shakespeare

William Faulkner

 

[mon]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

Flannery O'Connor

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

Flannery O'Connor

I almost took "A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" for my short story collection.

 

[mon]

Favorite authors?

My top ten:

Flannery O'Connor

I almost took "A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" for my short story collection.

I also like Joyce Carol Oates.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Kurt Vonnegut

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

John Steinbeck

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jules Verne

Gabriel García Márquez

Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Michael Crichton

 

[NCCommish]

Just a quick look in to see how it's going. I have to tell you this is going to take some serious pondering to pick a winner. A generally great job done so on the surface there are no weaklings to discard which will make narrowing this down a job. Busy the rest of the day but will check in this evening for the last couple of picks.