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[Assani Fisher]

sorry for any delay...totally forgot about this over the weekend..picks coming now.

 

[kupcho1]

As this draft played out, I decided I would buy and read (at least) one book that I had not yet read from every participant's set of selections.

I went out to Barnes & Noble this afternoon and picked up:

DC Thunder

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

cosjobs

1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama

I'll have to revisit this thread periodically when I need new reading material.

BTW, B&N has a section of classics at a very reasonable price. I picked up the Count for $7.95. They've got a number of draftees in this section (e.g., Art of War, The Prince, Moby ****) and it is worth checking out.

 

[cosjobs]

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.

"Wise Blood" was on my short list, but I lost that list. A real shame she was unrepresened in the draft.

 

[perry147]

As this draft played out, I decided I would buy and read (at least) one book that I had not yet read from every participant's set of selections.

I went out to Barnes & Noble this afternoon and picked up:

DC Thunder

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

cosjobs

1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama

I'll have to revisit this thread periodically when I need new reading material.

BTW, B&N has a section of classics at a very reasonable price. I picked up the Count for $7.95. They've got a number of draftees in this section (e.g., Art of War, The Prince, Moby ****) and it is worth checking out.

I will read The Foundation Series after I finish a few other books I have lined up. I have heard others speak of these books but with it being selected 1.1 I think I will at least give it a try.

 

[cosjobs]

Favorite Authors - no particular order, preference given to the unmentioned:

Charles Bukowski

John Steinbeck

Tom Wolfe

Flannery O'Connor

John Dunning (if you love books, read his "Bookman" series - top shelf)

Elmore Leonard (best characters)

Carl Hiassen (funniest)

Ross Thomas (must read for espionage, but my faves are "The Fourth Durango" and "The Fools in Town Are on our Side")

Kurt Vonnegut

Dashielle Hammett

 

[cosjobs]

As this draft played out, I decided I would buy and read (at least) one book that I had not yet read from every participant's set of selections.

I went out to Barnes & Noble this afternoon and picked up:

DC Thunder

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

cosjobs

1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama

I'll have to revisit this thread periodically when I need new reading material.

BTW, B&N has a section of classics at a very reasonable price. I picked up the Count for $7.95. They've got a number of draftees in this section (e.g., Art of War, The Prince, Moby ****) and it is worth checking out.

Dodds was in town last weekend and I gave jom a cpy of "Lonesome Dove" to read on the flight home. He attempted to balk at its length, but I persuaded him to give it a shot for 50 pages. I am anxious to hear his report.I often go to thrift stores and garage sales and whenever I find favorite books/authors, I pick them up, just so I have extra copies to give away. I highly recommend this practice.

 

[perry147]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

"Cloud Atlas" is on its way from Amazon and hopefully will be here later this week.

 

[cosjobs]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

not really, but there is some similarity of style.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

Key here is "uncommon perspective".Dude has a really unique and intruiging slant on many things.

I'd recommend Cat's Cradle to anyone that was even slightly interested in checking him out. Another good place to go would be Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of his early shorts (was THIS close to doubling up and taking this as my "shorts" selection).

Also love Galapagos, Breakfast of Champions, and the selected Sirens of Titan.

 

[mon]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

Never read anything by him I didn't like, but S-5 would be near the bottom for me. My favorite of his is Slapstick and the aforementioned nonfiction work, Fates Worse Than Death.

 

[Assani Fisher]

Thriller: The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

Horror: The Haunting of Hill House

 

[cosjobs]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

Key here is "uncommon perspective".Dude has a really unique and intruiging slant on many things.

I'd recommend Cat's Cradle to anyone that was even slightly interested in checking him out. Another good place to go would be Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of his early shorts (was THIS close to doubling up and taking this as my "shorts" selection).

Also love Galapagos, Breakfast of Champions, and the selected Sirens of Titan.

Throw in "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" and its a helluva Vonnegut short list. I agree with mon that S5 is not his best work.

 

[perry147]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

Key here is "uncommon perspective".Dude has a really unique and intruiging slant on many things.

I'd recommend Cat's Cradle to anyone that was even slightly interested in checking him out. Another good place to go would be Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of his early shorts (was THIS close to doubling up and taking this as my "shorts" selection).

Also love Galapagos, Breakfast of Champions, and the selected Sirens of Titan.

Throw in "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" and its a helluva Vonnegut short list. I agree with mon that S5 is not his best work.

Then why does every high school in American give it has a reading assignment? I read it on my own not as an assignment BTW.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

"God Bless You Mr. Rosewater"

Great call.

 

[mon]

Kurt Vonnegut - so four of you name him as one of your favorite authors, I have only read Slaughterhouse-Five and though I found it very good and with an uncommon perspective on war. Are all of this books written in the same style and with the same messages?

Key here is "uncommon perspective".Dude has a really unique and intruiging slant on many things.

I'd recommend Cat's Cradle to anyone that was even slightly interested in checking him out. Another good place to go would be Welcome to the Monkey House. It's a collection of his early shorts (was THIS close to doubling up and taking this as my "shorts" selection).

Also love Galapagos, Breakfast of Champions, and the selected Sirens of Titan.

Throw in "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" and its a helluva Vonnegut short list. I agree with mon that S5 is not his best work.

Then why does every high school in American give it has a reading assignment? I read it on my own not as an assignment BTW.

It was very topical at the time it was released, with the Vietnam war going on. Also, it is probably the least imaginative (most realistic) of his novels - the most mainstream.

 

[kupcho1]

Thriller: The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

Horror: The Haunting of Hill House

Thanks, that wraps up the draft.I'll get the official list out shortly.

 

[kupcho1]

*** THE BOOK DRAFT COMPLETE DRAFT LIST AND ROSTERS ***

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

9.10 - Assani Fisher - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles - Julie Andrews - Thriller

10.01 - Assani Fisher - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson - Horror

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

10.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Trial - Franz Kafka - Flex

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

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

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

10 - The Trial - Franz Kafka - Flex

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

9 - The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles - Julie Andrews - Thriller

10 - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson - Horror

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

No In Cold Blood fans? My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

 

[NCCommish]

I see we are finisihed. Are there any other judges?

 

[Uncle Humuna]

No In Cold Blood fans? My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

Seriously considered it.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

No In Cold Blood fans?  My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

Seriously considered it.

Maybe it's too topical right now, what with Capote and all.

 

[DCThunder]

No In Cold Blood fans?  My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

No Tom Wolfe fans, either. I thought about "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "The Right Stuff" or even "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test", but didn't pull the trigger on any of them.And for thrillers, anybody read any Stephen Hunter?

 

[kupcho1]

I see we are finisihed. Are there any other judges?

roadeyes also volunteeredPeople that posted in the thread that appeared to be taking it seriously include

randall146

Scott Norwood

Nigel Tufnel

imeimex

IndividuallyWrapedKraftSingles

urbanhack

Gordo

oso diablo

Ranethe

jetmonkey

Perhaps a thread asking for judges? What does the group say?

 

[kupcho1]

No In Cold Blood fans?  My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

No Tom Wolfe fans, either.

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

 

[DCThunder]

No In Cold Blood fans?  My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

No Tom Wolfe fans, either.

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

Missed that pick. But it was a good one.

 

[mon]

I see we are finisihed. Are there any other judges?

roadeyes also volunteeredPeople that posted in the thread that appeared to be taking it seriously include

randall146

Scott Norwood

Nigel Tufnel

imeimex

IndividuallyWrapedKraftSingles

urbanhack

Gordo

oso diablo

Ranethe

jetmonkey

Perhaps a thread asking for judges? What does the group say?

How about asking the people who posted most in this thread?

 

[kupcho1]

I see we are finisihed. Are there any other judges?

roadeyes also volunteeredPeople that posted in the thread that appeared to be taking it seriously include

randall146

Scott Norwood

Nigel Tufnel

imeimex

IndividuallyWrapedKraftSingles

urbanhack

Gordo

oso diablo

Ranethe

jetmonkey

Perhaps a thread asking for judges? What does the group say?

How about asking the people who posted most in this thread?

Should I call them all individually, or will an e-mail do?

Anybody want to take the reins on this horse? I don't care how this draft is judged, or even if it is judged. I enjoyed participating and will likely expand my reading horizons as a result.

Somebody else can take it from here.

 

[cosjobs]

No In Cold Blood fans? My favorite book of all time didn't get drafted.

Damn fine point. I might have gone that way, had I not selected "The RIght Stuff." But I like the overall body of work by Wolfe better and he had been ommitted, so I had to take him.

 

[DCThunder]

I see we are finisihed. Are there any other judges?

roadeyes also volunteeredPeople that posted in the thread that appeared to be taking it seriously include

randall146

Scott Norwood

Nigel Tufnel

imeimex

IndividuallyWrapedKraftSingles

urbanhack

Gordo

oso diablo

Ranethe

jetmonkey

Perhaps a thread asking for judges? What does the group say?

How about asking the people who posted most in this thread?

Should I call them all individually, or will an e-mail do?

Anybody want to take the reins on this horse? I don't care how this draft is judged, or even if it is judged. I enjoyed participating and will likely expand my reading horizons as a result.

Somebody else can take it from here.

Good point. What would the judging criteria be? Best name recognition?

 

[Uncle Humuna]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

 

[DCThunder]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

I don't think Crichton wrote "The Hot Zone". "Andromeda Strain", maybe, but Hot Zone wasn't one of his

 

[Uncle Humuna]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

I don't think Crichton wrote "The Hot Zone". "Andromeda Strain", maybe, but Hot Zone wasn't one of his

My bad.You're right.

Was thinking of putting Anderomeda Strain and had Chrichton on the brain.

Richard Preston

 

[perry147]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Unbeliveable . Did you look at my cheatsheets or something? I had the following on my hand written list.The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

The Shining - Stephen King

The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

 

[cosjobs]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Old Man and the Sea was a notable miss. but I always enjoyed A Moveable Feast more.Crichton did nto write The Hot ZOne, it was Richard Preston (and a damn good read)

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I loved Helter Skelter, too, but I'm weird like that.

 

[cosjobs]

I loved Helter Skelter, too, but I'm weird like that.

I liked the Hells Angels one.

 

[kupcho1]

Considered "House of Leaves" briefly for my horror selection but realized it was only because I found the structure/approach interesting. The main problem was that I didn't find it the least bit frightening.

Interesting? Certainly. But not scary.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Unbeliveable . Did you look at my cheatsheets or something? I had the following on my hand written list.The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

The Shining - Stephen King

The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

 

[mon]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

 

[DCThunder]

I think Hemingway's earlier work is far superior to "Old Man." That's why I took the earlier short stories rather than this.

BTW, as for mysteries, none of the Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe) stuff got picked. Or Mickey Spillane (I, The Jury) either. Or the Spenser series.

 

[cosjobs]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

I almost took Trumbo's.One of my biggest regrets was not fitting in "Shoeless Joe" by WP Kinsella. Propbably one of the finest "first novels" out there.

"North Dallas FOrty" by Pete Gent also comes to mind.

"Dead Solid Perfect" was the cream of a bumper crop from Dan Jenkins.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

Killer list!

 

[mon]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

I almost took Trumbo's.

Most powerful book I've ever read. Anyone considering joining the military should read it.

 

[cosjobs]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

I almost took Trumbo's.

Most powerful book I've ever read. Anyone considering joining the military should read it.

Tap tap tap.

 

[cosjobs]

Has anyone else here read any of Dunning's "Bookman" series? These are truly books for booklovers that happen to be some damn fine mysteries.

 

[mon]

Tap tap tap.

Brings a whole new meaning to "I'd tap it".

 

[Woz]

So did we come to a conclusion on how this will be scored/judged? I'm pretty interested as I did try to curtail my personal favorites to assembling a more well-rounded collection. I want to see if it worked.

 

[mon]

So did we come to a conclusion on how this will be scored/judged? I'm pretty interested as I did try to curtail my personal favorites to assembling a more well-rounded collection. I want to see if it worked.

Sellout.

 

[perry147]

A few non-selected books that just missed my list:

Classic: The Old Man & The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Drama: On The Road - Jack Keroauc

Horror: The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty, The Shining - Stephen King

Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

Non-fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes, A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, Cosmos - Carl Sagan

Sci/fi or fantasy: Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut, The Hot Zone - Michael Crichton

Thriller: Jaws - Peter Benchley, In Cold Blood - Truman Capote, The Collector - John Fowles

Collection of short stories: Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Series: The Rosy Crucifixion - Henry Miller, The Obelisk Trilogy - Henry Miller

Nice. I had a few of those.I'll play:

Dalton Trumbo - Johnny Got His Gun

Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Patrick Suskind - Perfume

Hermann Hesse - Sidhartha, Narcissus & Goldman

Tom Robbins - Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Jitterbug Perfume

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America

Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

John Irving - World According to Garp, Cider House Rules

I almost took Trumbo's.

Most powerful book I've ever read. Anyone considering joining the military should read it.