THE BOOK DRAFT (1 Viewer)

[kupcho1]

6.05 "Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad (Thriller)

Mornin' y'all.I switched my last pick

Since there's only been one pick since, I thought it would be cool.

Lemme know if it's not, and I'll switch back with no worries.

Like I said, I'm laid back on this. But if anyone else has an objection, please raise it now.

 

[mon]

I don't have any problem with people switching their picks.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

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

 

[IvanKaramazov]

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

I picked this book because any library that doesn't include at least one selection from Oprah's Book Club is woefully incomplete.

 

[DCThunder]

6.09--Macbeth-William Shakespeare-HorrorThe greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies, this is a story of witchcraft, murder, betrayal and the supernatural all surrounding Scottish kings, Macheath and Macbeth. This play gave us one of literature's greatest villians in Lady Macbeth, not to mention lines that have lived through the ages.This may not be the classic definition of "horror", but I think it fits here.

 

[DCThunder]

I don't have any PMs from rikishi, so we're waiting on his appearance.

 

[kupcho1]

Update through 6.09 and Uncle Humuna's most recent switch fingerscrossed

Classic - 10

Drama - 6

Flex - 6

Horror - 7

Mystery - 4

Nonfiction - 4

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 5

Series - 6

Short Story Collection - 7

Thriller - 4

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 - Classic

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

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 - 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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

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

6.09 - DC Thunder - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

6.10 - rikishiboy - - -

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 - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection

6 - - -

7 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

DC Thunder

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

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

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

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

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

6 - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

7 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

7 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Assani Fisher

1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic

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

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

 

[IvanKaramazov]

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

No, seriously, this is a great book on a few dimensions.First of all, the structure of the novel is interesting. Faulker is relating some notable events in the life of the Compsons, a southern family that has seen better days. He relates those same events through the eyes of four different characters (or more precisely three characters and something resembling a narrator). The fact that we see the same events from different perspectives adds a layer of richness to the book that more traditional "omnisicent narrator" novels frequently lack.

Faulkner (along with James Joyce) is well-known for pioneering the "stream-of-consciousness" style of writing, and as we move through the novel the story is described through the mind of each character. The first character, Benjy Compson, is mentally ret arded, making this particular section of the book extraordinarily challenging to read. Later sections describe the same basic story with increasing degrees of lucidity. The use of this style makes The Sound and the Fury a pathbreaking work and a cornerstone of American literature.

This book isn't just a stylistic tour-de-force. It includes a variety of thematic elements for the reader to ponder, like the subjective nature of knowledge, the nature of time, man's capacity for cruelty, etc. Overall, it's a difficult novel that richly rewards multiple readings and reflection. Good stuff.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

This is really interesting draft. I want to put together a library that provides a good balance of different time periods, philosophies, literary styles, and levels of difficulty, but as we head into the last few rounds I'm finding it harder and harder to construct a list of 10 books that's well-rounded on all those dimensions. For instance, so far I've got five 20th century works and one 19th century work. I probably have at least one more modern author coming up, maybe two. I'm kind of surprised at that skew.

 

[DCThunder]

For instance, so far I've got five 20th century works and one 19th century work. I probably have at least one more modern author coming up, maybe two. I'm kind of surprised at that skew.

I have just the opposite. With the exception of Ecco's "Name of the Rose", all my picks were written before 1960. And of my next several selections, they will also be older, "Great Books" type selections.

 

[kupcho1]

For instance, so far I've got five 20th century works and one 19th century work. I probably have at least one more modern author coming up, maybe two. I'm kind of surprised at that skew.

LOL - I think the average "publication" date for my 6 selections is mid-15th century.

 

[mon]

This is really interesting draft. I want to put together a library that provides a good balance of different time periods, philosophies, literary styles, and levels of difficulty, but as we head into the last few rounds I'm finding it harder and harder to construct a list of 10 books that's well-rounded on all those dimensions.

For instance, so far I've got five 20th century works and one 19th century work. I probably have at least one more modern author coming up, maybe two. I'm kind of surprised at that skew.

Shouldn't be surprised, 20th century works are more relevant to us. And with the industrial age came more leisure time, as we began to let machines do our work for us. More leisure time gave writers more time to write. I think all of my picks will end up being from the 20th century.

 

[kupcho1]

I don't have any PMs from rikishi, so we're waiting on his appearance.

It's Friday night for him, hope he's sober.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I don't have any PMs from rikishi, so we're waiting on his appearance.

It's Friday night for him, hope he's sober.

Are we still doing the "half hour rule?"

 

[IvanKaramazov]

If by chance my turn is up again..I give permission to skip my pick..I will add when I return.

 

[kupcho1]

If by chance my turn is up again..I give permission to skip my pick..I will add when I return.

Doh! I'd seen that and forgotten it.DC Thunder - fire away!

 

[DCThunder]

7.02--Das Kapital-Karl Marx--Non-fiction (or could be sci-fi/fantasy )Published in 1867, this was Karl Marx's critical analysis of capitalism and political economies and their perceived flaws. It reflects the dialectical approach to history developed by Hegel and presents the labor theory of economics. Das Kapital was unfinished at the time of Marx's death and was completed by his colleague Freidrich Engels. Together with the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital formed the philosophical underpinnings of Communist thinking, that has/was perverted in actual practice in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

7.03 The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio -- Collection of Short Stories

I'm going to be lazy and just Wikipedia this one.

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all its possibilities from the erotic to the tragic. Other topics such as wit and witticism, practical jokes and worldly initiation also form part of the mosaic. Beyond its entertainment and literary popularity it remains an important historical document of life in the 14th century.

Description

Decameron is structured in a frame narrative, or frame tale. Boccaccio begins with a description of the Bubonic Plague (specifically the epidemic which hit Florence in 1348, see Black Death) and leads into an introduction of a group of seven young women and three young men who flee from plague-ridden Florence to a villa in the (then) countryside of Fiesole for two weeks. To pass the time, each member of the party tells one story for each one of the nights spent at the villa. Although 14 days pass, two days each week are set aside. One to do chores and another holy day where no activity must take place. In this manner, 100 stories are told by the end of the ten days.

Each of the ten characters is charged as King or Queen of the company for one of the ten days in turn. This charge extends to choosing the theme of the stories for that day, and all but two days have topics assigned: examples of the power of fortune; examples of the power of human will; love tales that end tragically; love tales that end happily; clever replies that save the speaker; tricks that women play on men; tricks that men play on women; examples of virtue.

. . .

A number of the stories contained within The Decameron would later appear in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. However, Chaucer probably was not directly familiar with the Decameron. Instead, he most likely used common French and Latin sources that were inspirational material for Boccaccio's work. However, scholars do agree that his "Clerk's Tale" is derived from a Latin translation by Petrarch of the last story of the Decameron.

. . .

Analysis

From an edition of Boccaccio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium" showing Lady Fortune spinning her wheel.Throughout Decameron the mercantile ethic prevails and predominates. The commercial and urban values of quick wit, sophistication and intelligence are treasured, while the vices of stupidity and dullness are cured, or punished. While these traits and values will seem obvious to the modern reader, they were an emerging feature in Europe with the rise of urban centers and a monetized economic system beyond the traditional rural feudal and monastery systems which placed greater value on piety and loyalty.

Beyond the unity provided by the frame narrative, Decameron provides a unity in philosophical outlook. Throughout runs the common medieval theme of Lady Fortune, and how quickly one can rise and fall through the external influences of the "Wheel of Fortune". Boccaccio had been educated in the tradition of Dante's Divine Comedy who used the various levels of allegory to show the connections between the literal events of the story and the hidden Christian message. However Decameron uses Dante's model not to educate the reader, but to satirize this method of learning. The Catholic Church, priests and religious belief becomes the satirical source of comedy throughout. This was part of a wider historical trend in the aftermath of the Black Death which saw widespread discontent with the church.

I was originally going to go in a different direction with my Short Story pick, but this one helps balance my library out a bit.

 

[rikishiboy]

I will take The Time Machine by H.G. Wells as my Science Fiction pick....will need abit more time for my next one.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

A quick note for the record:Whenever my pick comes up from now on, just wait 10 minutes or so and then skip me. We're the point now where we could all probably just shout out our last few picks without much or maybe any overlap, so I don't really care if I get skipped and have to jump back in later.

 

[mon]

7.04 The Rabbit Angstrom Novels by John Updike, series

This includes Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest.

I haven't read many complete series so I have to go with Updike here. Saw him speak a couple of years ago at TCU. Brilliant man. He's easily one of my ten favorite authors.

 

[kupcho1]

7.04 The Rabbit Angstrom Novels by John Updike, series

This includes Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest.

I haven't read many complete series so I have to go with Updike here. Saw him speak a couple of years ago at TCU. Brilliant man. He's easily one of my ten favorite authors.

 

[kupcho1]

I've got perry's pick, but I'll hold off for rikishiboy

 

[rikishiboy]

and for my 7.1 pick I will take Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. This is my Non Fiction pick.

 

[kupcho1]

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

 

[kupcho1]

Humuna on the clock

Classic - 10

Drama - 6

Flex - 6

Horror - 7

Mystery - 4

Nonfiction - 6

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 6

Series - 7

Short Story Collection - 9

Thriller - 4

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 - Classic

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

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 - 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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

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

6.09 - DC Thunder - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.06 - Uncle Humuna - - -

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 - 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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

DC Thunder

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

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

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

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

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

6 - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

7 - Das Kapital - Karl Marx - Nonfiction

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

7 - The Rabbit Angstrom Novels - John Updike - Series

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Assani Fisher

1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic

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

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

 

[perry147]

7.05 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Short Stories)

The Canterbury Tales

Some of the tales are serious and others humorous; however, all are very precise in describing the traits and faults of human nature. Religious malpractice is a major theme as well as focusing on the division of the three estates. Most of the tales are interlinked with similar themes running through them and some are told in retaliation for other tales in the form of an argument. The work is incomplete, as it was originally intended that each character would tell four tales, two on the way to Canterbury and two on the return journey. This would have meant a possible one hundred and twenty tales which would have dwarfed the twenty-six tales actually written.

 

[DCThunder]

and for my 7.1 pick I will take Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. This is my Non Fiction pick.

Some would say this is sci-fi/fantasy, but that's an argument for another day and another thread.

 

[kupcho1]

7.05 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Short Stories)

The Canterbury Tales

Some of the tales are serious and others humorous; however, all are very precise in describing the traits and faults of human nature. Religious malpractice is a major theme as well as focusing on the division of the three estates. Most of the tales are interlinked with similar themes running through them and some are told in retaliation for other tales in the form of an argument. The work is incomplete, as it was originally intended that each character would tell four tales, two on the way to Canterbury and two on the return journey. This would have meant a possible one hundred and twenty tales which would have dwarfed the twenty-six tales actually written.

Glad you took the one you PM'd me.

 

[mon]

Tales of Ordinary Madness already gone?

Great pick, cosjobs. It was at the top of my list.

Oh, and they just made a movie of Bukowski's Factorum. Hasn't been released yet, I just saw it at Sundance. It's got Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei, and Lili Taylor in it. Should get picked up. If you're a Bukowski fan it's a must see, of course.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

So far perry147 wins the prize for Drafter Who Picked The Most Books Appearing On My Cheatsheet:

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Nobody else has more than one book in common with my cheatsheet.

 

[perry147]

So far perry147 wins the prize for Drafter Who Picked The Most Books Appearing On My Cheatsheet:

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Nobody else has more than one book in common with my cheatsheet.

I think I have a strong team but my three remaining picks are the toughest. (Mystery, Thriller, and Series).

 

[rikishiboy]

First of all Thank-you for keeping us updated..I am coping your updates and pasting on page one, but I am humble enough to know who is doing the real work However on your next update can you please correct the title of my short stories to 12 red herring in both my team and drafts area...no need to do now, just on the next update.

Humuna on the clock

Classic - 10

Drama - 6

Flex - 6

Horror - 7

Mystery - 4

Nonfiction - 6

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 6

Series - 7

Short Story Collection - 9

Thriller - 4

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 - Classic

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

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 - 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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

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

6.09 - DC Thunder - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.06 - Uncle Humuna - - -

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 - 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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

DC Thunder

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

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

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

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

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

6 - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

7 - Das Kapital - Karl Marx - Nonfiction

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - Rad Bradbury - Short Story Collection

7 - The Rabbit Angstrom Novels - John Updike - Series

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Assani Fisher

1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic

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

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

 

[mon]

Who's on the clock?

 

[kupcho1]

First of all Thank-you for keeping us updated..I am coping your updates and pasting on page one, but I am humble enough to know who is doing the real work However on your next update can you please correct the title of my short stories to 12 red herring in both my team and drafts area...no need to do now, just on the next update.

No sweat. I went back and looked at the pick and must have missed the 12 as it was right after the pick number.Updating is very easy with Excel. CONCATENATE and VLOOKUP

 

[kupcho1]

Who's on the clock?

Humuna, who usually shows up about now

 

[Uncle Humuna]

7.02--Das Kapital-Karl Marx--Non-fiction (or could be sci-fi/fantasy )

Published in 1867, this was Karl Marx's critical analysis of capitalism and political economies and their perceived flaws. It reflects the dialectical approach to history developed by Hegel and presents the labor theory of economics. Das Kapital was unfinished at the time of Marx's death and was completed by his colleague Freidrich Engels. Together with the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital formed the philosophical underpinnings of Communist thinking, that has/was perverted in actual practice in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere.

Wow!

 

[Uncle Humuna]

and for my 7.1 pick I will take Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. This is my Non Fiction pick.

Wow!

 

[mon]

First of all Thank-you for keeping us updated..I am coping your updates and pasting on page one, but I am humble enough to know who is doing the real work However on your next update can you please correct the title of my short stories to 12 red herring in both my team and drafts area...no need to do now, just on the next update.

No sweat. I went back and looked at the pick and must have missed the 12 as it was right after the pick number.Updating is very easy with Excel. CONCATENATE and VLOOKUP

While you're at it, could you change the author's name on my sixth pick? Rad Bradbury is a cool name and all, but I'm sure he prefers Ray.

 

[kupcho1]

First of all Thank-you for keeping us updated..I am coping your updates and pasting on page one, but I am humble enough to know who is doing the real work However on your next update can you please correct the title of my short stories to 12 red herring in both my team and drafts area...no need to do now, just on the next update.

No sweat. I went back and looked at the pick and must have missed the 12 as it was right after the pick number.Updating is very easy with Excel. CONCATENATE and VLOOKUP

While you're at it, could you change the author's name on my sixth pick? Rad Bradbury is a cool name and all, but I'm sure he prefers Ray.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

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

NOOOOOOOOOOO!This was my next pick!

####

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Who's on the clock?

Humuna, who usually shows up about now

You're good.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

First of all Thank-you for keeping us updated..I am coping your updates and pasting on page one, but I am humble enough to know who is doing the real work However on your next update can you please correct the title of my short stories to 12 red herring in both my team and drafts area...no need to do now, just on the next update.

No sweat. I went back and looked at the pick and must have missed the 12 as it was right after the pick number.Updating is very easy with Excel. CONCATENATE and VLOOKUP

While you're at it, could you change the author's name on my sixth pick? Rad Bradbury is a cool name and all, but I'm sure he prefers Ray.

Would be a great porn name . . .

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Well crap.

Since I got scooped, I'm gonna have to change my plan.

I'll head a different direction.

Can't believe this is still on the board:

7.06 "Dracula" - Bram Stoker (Horror)

 

[perry147]

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

NOOOOOOOOOOO!This was my next pick!

####

I could not believe it was on the board.

 

[kupcho1]

7.07 / Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell / 2004 / Flex

Cloud Atlas is made up of half-a-dozen disparate but artfully interwoven narratives that propel the reader forwards through time and genre, from the distant nineteenth to the not-so-far-off twenty-second century, from giddy picaresque to cool thriller to chilling sci-fi.

1. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing. Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. An American notary's account of a voyage to the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. This story is saved in the form of a diary, which the next character discovers on his patron's bookshelf.2. Letters from Zedelghem. Zedelghem, Belgium, 1931. A penniless young English musician finds work as an amanuensis to a composer living in Belgium. This story is saved in the form of letters to a friend, which the next character discovers.3. Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery. Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. A female journalist investigates reports of corruption and murder at a nuclear power plant. This story is saved in the form of a manuscript, which the next character is sent in the mail.4. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish. United Kingdom, early 21st century. A book publisher flees the brothers of his gangster client. This story is saved in the form of a movie, which the next character watches.5. An Orison of Sonmi~451. Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. A genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at a fast-food restaurant rebels against the society that enslaved her kind. This story is saved in the form of a jailhouse interview, which the next character watches as a child.6. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After. Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Most of humanity has died in a series of disasters, and only a few remote tribes are left, living primitive lives. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to those few remaining people.Apart from the central story (Sloosha's Crossin'), which is uninterrupted, each story breaks off abruptly half-way through, to be followed by the first half of the next story. It then appears within the next one, with the protagonist reading or watching the first half of its text. Each story ends with its protagonist finding the second half of this story, which is then printed after it.

I could have picked this as a short story collection, mystery, science fiction or drama - a true flex pick!

Cloud Atlas' six novella structure is oft referred as nested Matryoshka doll fashion, a description perhaps imprecise, as the plots, themes, and especially voice and setting vary greatly (not merely size and scope). The stories do bracket and interlock one another into a whole stronger than its constituent parts, but each story could be successfully read independent of the related other five. "An Orison of Sonmi~451" and "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After" are decidedly sci-fi, with "Orison" reminiscent of the futuristic dystopian worlds of Philip K. **** and "Sloosha's Crossing" of the post-apocalyptic world of Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

There are a number of themes in Cloud Atlas which carry through each of the individual stories.

Reincarnation. The book hints that the same character appears reincarnated in each of the six episodes and has some memories from other stories. In each life he/she has a comet-shaped birthmark near the shoulder.Imprisonment. Each protagonist is in some way imprisoned or enslaved and makes a bid for freedom.The question: "What should/can a pacifist do when faced with overwhelming odds?". This question is posed in each of the episodes, and the answers are as varied as the situations the character finds themselves in.

Fantastic book.

 

[kupcho1]

Woz is on the clock. I'm heading out for an early lunch. In the meantime, here is an update:

Classic - 10

Drama - 6

Flex - 7

Horror - 8

Mystery - 4

Nonfiction - 6

Science Fiction/Fantasy - 6

Series - 7

Short Story Collection - 9

Thriller - 4

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 - Classic

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

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

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

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

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

2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic

2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex

2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller

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

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

3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror

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

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

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

3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama

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

3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic

3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction

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

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

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

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

4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror

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

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

4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6.06 - perry147 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Flex

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

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

6.09 - DC Thunder - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

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

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

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

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

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

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

7.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dracula - Bram Stoker - Horror

7.07 - kupcho1 - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - Flex

7.08 - Woz - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

DC Thunder

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

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

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

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

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

6 - Macbeth - Shakespeare - Horror

7 - Das Kapital - Karl Marx - Nonfiction

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

Assani Fisher

1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic

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

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 - - -

8 - - -

9 - - -

10 - - -

 

[IvanKaramazov]

7.07 / Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell / 2004 / Flex

Cloud Atlas is made up of half-a-dozen disparate but artfully interwoven narratives that propel the reader forwards through time and genre, from the distant nineteenth to the not-so-far-off twenty-second century, from giddy picaresque to cool thriller to chilling sci-fi.

1. The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing. Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. An American notary's account of a voyage to the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. This story is saved in the form of a diary, which the next character discovers on his patron's bookshelf.

2. Letters from Zedelghem. Zedelghem, Belgium, 1931. A penniless young English musician finds work as an amanuensis to a composer living in Belgium. This story is saved in the form of letters to a friend, which the next character discovers.

3. Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery. Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. A female journalist investigates reports of corruption and murder at a nuclear power plant. This story is saved in the form of a manuscript, which the next character is sent in the mail.

4. The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish. United Kingdom, early 21st century. A book publisher flees the brothers of his gangster client. This story is saved in the form of a movie, which the next character watches.

5. An Orison of Sonmi~451. Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. A genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at a fast-food restaurant rebels against the society that enslaved her kind. This story is saved in the form of a jailhouse interview, which the next character watches as a child.

6. Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After. Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Most of humanity has died in a series of disasters, and only a few remote tribes are left, living primitive lives. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to those few remaining people.

Apart from the central story (Sloosha's Crossin'), which is uninterrupted, each story breaks off abruptly half-way through, to be followed by the first half of the next story. It then appears within the next one, with the protagonist reading or watching the first half of its text. Each story ends with its protagonist finding the second half of this story, which is then printed after it.

I could have picked this as a short story collection, mystery, science fiction or drama - a true flex pick!

Cloud Atlas' six novella structure is oft referred as nested Matryoshka doll fashion, a description perhaps imprecise, as the plots, themes, and especially voice and setting vary greatly (not merely size and scope). The stories do bracket and interlock one another into a whole stronger than its constituent parts, but each story could be successfully read independent of the related other five. "An Orison of Sonmi~451" and "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After" are decidedly sci-fi, with "Orison" reminiscent of the futuristic dystopian worlds of Philip K. **** and "Sloosha's Crossing" of the post-apocalyptic world of Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban.

There are a number of themes in Cloud Atlas which carry through each of the individual stories.

Reincarnation. The book hints that the same character appears reincarnated in each of the six episodes and has some memories from other stories. In each life he/she has a comet-shaped birthmark near the shoulder.

Imprisonment. Each protagonist is in some way imprisoned or enslaved and makes a bid for freedom.

The question: "What should/can a pacifist do when faced with overwhelming odds?". This question is posed in each of the episodes, and the answers are as varied as the situations the character finds themselves in.

Fantastic book.

Sounds interesting. I might pick this one up sometime.

 

[Assani Fisher]

Don't have a ton of time, so I'm just going to post my picks here...I'll take LA Confidential and 100 Years of Solitude. If either of those are taken then give me The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.

 

[rikishiboy]

i am tired...I am also torn on which dirsection I want to go with my next picks, so rather than just go with something I am gonna sleep on it. Maybe I will be able to remember some great book I read once, as always if I am up again please skip....also gonna apologize for not giving reasons yet for my picks....I am so tired..goodnite.