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[Assani Fisher]

who is up?

 

[cosjobs]

I am off to a poker tournament.I PMed my picks to Ivan. He may make them without waiting the half hour.

 

[perry147]

who is up?

Whomever is at 5.07 is up.

 

[kupcho1]

Back from dinner - will post writeup shortly

 

[perry147]

Back from dinner - will post writeup shortly

can you take a PM from me with my pick?I am picking 6.06 so I have a while.

 

[Woz]

kupcho, can you pick? I have to for awhile in 5 minutes

 

[kupcho1]

5.07 / كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) / Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar / 9th century / Short Story Collection

Went with perhaps the most famous frame tale of all for my short story collection. Of course I'm referring to Scheherazade, who volunteers for some hazardous duty, but proves to be up to the challenge.

The story starts with the Persian Shahryar, king of an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab transcripts he is king of India and China), who is so shocked by his wife's infidelity that he kills her and, believing all women to be likewise unfaithful, gives his vizier an order to get him a new wife every night (in some versions, every third night). After spending one night with his bride, the king has her executed at dawn. This practice continues for some time, until the vizier's clever daughter Shahrazad (the name is perhaps better-known in English as "Scheherazade" or "Shahrastini", which is a Persian name) forms a plan and volunteers to become Shahrayar's next wife. Every night after their marriage, she spends hours telling him stories, each time stopping at dawn with a cliff-hanger, so the king will postpone the execution out of a desire to hear the rest of the tale. In the end, she has given birth to three sons, and the king has been convinced of her faithfulness and revoked his decree.

The tales vary widely; they include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques and Muslim religious legends. Some of the famous stories Shahrazad spins in many western translations are Aladdin's Lamp, Sindbad the Sailor, and the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; however Aladdin and Ali Baba were in fact inserted only in the 18th century by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist, who had heard them in oral form from a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo in Syria. Numerous stories depict djinns, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography; the historical caliph Harun al-Rashid is a common protagonist. Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.

 

[kupcho1]

Back from dinner - will post writeup shortly

can you take a PM from me with my pick?I am picking 6.06 so I have a while.

Sure. But try to pick a category I've already used (and avoid my flex)

 

[perry147]

5.07 / كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) / Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar / 9th century / Short Story Collection

Went with perhaps the most famous frame tale of all for my short story collection. Of course I'm referring to Scheherazade, who volunteers for some hazardous duty, but proves to be up to the challenge.

The story starts with the Persian Shahryar, king of an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab transcripts he is king of India and China), who is so shocked by his wife's infidelity that he kills her and, believing all women to be likewise unfaithful, gives his vizier an order to get him a new wife every night (in some versions, every third night). After spending one night with his bride, the king has her executed at dawn. This practice continues for some time, until the vizier's clever daughter Shahrazad (the name is perhaps better-known in English as "Scheherazade" or "Shahrastini", which is a Persian name) forms a plan and volunteers to become Shahrayar's next wife. Every night after their marriage, she spends hours telling him stories, each time stopping at dawn with a cliff-hanger, so the king will postpone the execution out of a desire to hear the rest of the tale. In the end, she has given birth to three sons, and the king has been convinced of her faithfulness and revoked his decree.

The tales vary widely; they include historical tales, love stories, tragedies, comedies, poems, burlesques and Muslim religious legends. Some of the famous stories Shahrazad spins in many western translations are Aladdin's Lamp, Sindbad the Sailor, and the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; however Aladdin and Ali Baba were in fact inserted only in the 18th century by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist, who had heard them in oral form from a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo in Syria. Numerous stories depict djinns, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography; the historical caliph Harun al-Rashid is a common protagonist. Sometimes a character in Scheherazade's tale will begin telling other characters a story of his own, and that story may have another one told within it, resulting in a richly layered narrative texture.

The surprise of the draft.

 

[Woz]

5.08 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - DramaI'm not a huge fan of this book, but it's been labeled as one of the best novels of all time by several sources. Pretty much works as a critique of social life during any time period. Plus I wanted to round out my squad with a female author.

 

[Assani Fisher]

I am off to a poker tournament.

I PMed my picks to Ivan. He may make them without waiting the half hour.

looks like cosjobs is up

 

[kupcho1]

5.07 / كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) / Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar / 9th century / Short Story Collection

The surprise of the draft.

I will blithely take that as a compliment.

 

[kupcho1]

Good time for an update:1.01 - rikishiboy - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series1.02 - DC Thunder - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic1.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror1.04 - mon - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic1.05 - perry147 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy1.06 - Uncle Humuna - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic1.07 - kupcho1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction1.08 - Woz - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection1.09 - cosjobs - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama1.10 - Assani Fisher - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2.01 - Assani Fisher - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama2.02 - cosjobs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic2.03 - Woz - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic2.04 - kupcho1 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama2.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller2.09 - DC Thunder - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series2.10 - rikishiboy - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror3.02 - DC Thunder - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller3.03 - Ivankaramazov - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.04 - mon - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama3.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction3.09 - cosjobs - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror3.10 - Assani Fisher - Plato's Dialogs - Plato - Series4.01 - Assani Fisher - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction4.02 - cosjobs - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror4.04 - kupcho1 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy4.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction4.07 - mon - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery4.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama4.09 - DC Thunder - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection4.10 - rikishiboy - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5.01 - rikishiboy - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection5.02 - DC Thunder - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery5.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery5.04 - mon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy5.05 - perry147 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror5.06 - Uncle Humuna - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery5.07 - kupcho1 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection5.08 - Woz - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama5.09 - cosjobs - - - 5.10 - Assani Fisher - - - rikishiboy 1 - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series2 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3 - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror4 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5 - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - DC Thunder 1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic2 - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series3 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller4 - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection5 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Ivankaramazov 1 - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror2 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller3 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama5 - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - mon 1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - perry147 1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy2 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic3 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama4 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction5 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Uncle Humuna 1 - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic2 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex3 - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series5 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - kupcho1 1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction2 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama3 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic4 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy5 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Woz 1 - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection2 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic3 - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction4 - It - Stephen King - Horror5 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - cosjobs 1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic3 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror4 - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series5 - - - 6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Assani Fisher 1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2 - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama3 - Plato's Dialogs - Plato - Series4 - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction5 - - - 6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Classic - 9Drama - 6Flex - 2Horror - 6Mystery - 4Nonfiction - 4Science Fiction/Fantasy - 5Series - 5Short Story Collection - 4Thriller - 3

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

No one's taken my favorite book of all time.

 

[Assani Fisher]

i'm ready to pick whenever...

 

[IvanKaramazov]

cosjob PMed this to me:

Tales of Ordinary Madness - CHarles Bukowski - short stories

 

[IvanKaramazov]

He also PMed me another pick I can make once Assani makes his.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'm logging off for the night, so I'll PM cosjob's pick to kupcho.

 

[Assani Fisher]

For 'short story collections' I will take: The Works of George Berkeley(by Berkeley, translated by G.N. Wright)For 'flex' I will take: Theory of Poker(by David Sklansky)

 

[Men-in-Cleats]

5.08 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

I'm not a huge fan of this book, but it's been labeled as one of the best novels of all time by several sources. Pretty much works as a critique of social life during any time period. Plus I wanted to round out my squad with a female author.

This I don't understand. Why would you draft a book that you don't care for? Who are you trying to impress? Pick books that you enjoy and it makes the exercise more entertaining and meaningful.

 

[Men-in-Cleats]

No one's taken my favorite book of all time.

"Where the Wild Things Are"?

 

[kupcho1]

6.02 - cosjobs - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - FlexWoz, on the clock

 

[kupcho1]

Update through 5 rounds (and change)1.01 - rikishiboy - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series1.02 - DC Thunder - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic1.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror1.04 - mon - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic1.05 - perry147 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy1.06 - Uncle Humuna - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic1.07 - kupcho1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction1.08 - Woz - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection1.09 - cosjobs - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama1.10 - Assani Fisher - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2.01 - Assani Fisher - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama2.02 - cosjobs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic2.03 - Woz - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic2.04 - kupcho1 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama2.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller2.09 - DC Thunder - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series2.10 - rikishiboy - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror3.02 - DC Thunder - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller3.03 - Ivankaramazov - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.04 - mon - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama3.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction3.09 - cosjobs - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror3.10 - Assani Fisher - Plato's Dialogs - Plato - Series4.01 - Assani Fisher - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction4.02 - cosjobs - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror4.04 - kupcho1 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy4.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction4.07 - mon - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery4.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama4.09 - DC Thunder - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection4.10 - rikishiboy - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5.01 - rikishiboy - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection5.02 - DC Thunder - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery5.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery5.04 - mon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy5.05 - perry147 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror5.06 - Uncle Humuna - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery5.07 - kupcho1 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection5.08 - Woz - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama5.09 - cosjobs - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection5.10 - Assani Fisher - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6.01 - Assani Fisher - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex6.02 - cosjobs - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex6.03 - Woz - - - rikishiboy 1 - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series2 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3 - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror4 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5 - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - DC Thunder 1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic2 - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series3 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller4 - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection5 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Ivankaramazov 1 - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror2 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller3 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama5 - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - mon 1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - perry147 1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy2 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic3 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama4 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction5 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Uncle Humuna 1 - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic2 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex3 - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series5 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - kupcho1 1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction2 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama3 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic4 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy5 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Woz 1 - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection2 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic3 - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction4 - It - Stephen King - Horror5 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - cosjobs 1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic3 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror4 - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series5 - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection6 - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Assani Fisher 1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2 - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama3 - Plato's Dialogs - Plato - Series4 - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction5 - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6 - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Classic - 9Drama - 6Flex - 4Horror - 6Mystery - 4Nonfiction - 4Science Fiction/Fantasy - 5Series - 5Short Story Collection - 6Thriller - 3

 

[Assani Fisher]

kupcho, you have "dialogues" spelled incorrectly in your list of my picks. Just wanted to point that out so it wasn't listed like that for the vote. Thanks for keeping track of everything for us.

 

[Woz]

5.08 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

I'm not a huge fan of this book, but it's been labeled as one of the best novels of all time by several sources. Pretty much works as a critique of social life during any time period. Plus I wanted to round out my squad with a female author.

This I don't understand. Why would you draft a book that you don't care for? Who are you trying to impress? Pick books that you enjoy and it makes the exercise more entertaining and meaningful.

I don't like Terrell Owens one bit, yet I'd happily draft him. Isn't this a competition?

 

[Woz]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

 

[perry147]

5.08 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

I'm not a huge fan of this book, but it's been labeled as one of the best novels of all time by several sources. Pretty much works as a critique of social life during any time period. Plus I wanted to round out my squad with a female author.

This I don't understand. Why would you draft a book that you don't care for? Who are you trying to impress? Pick books that you enjoy and it makes the exercise more entertaining and meaningful.

I don't like Terrell Owens one bit, yet I'd happily draft him. Isn't this a competition?

I didn't "enjoy" 1984 but it needed to be drafted because it was a book which I caused me to rethink my ideas of what I thought our world and how it worked.

 

[kupcho1]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

 

[NCCommish]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

 

[kupcho1]

6.04 / The Baroque Cycle / Neal Stephenson / 2003, 2004 / Series

The Baroque Cycle consists of 8 novels contained within 3 volumes:

* Quicksilver, Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle

o Book 1 - Quicksilver

o Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds

o Book 3 - Odalisque

* The Confusion, Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle

o Book 4 - Bonanza

o Book 5 - The Juncto

* The System of the World, Vol. III of the Baroque Cycle

o Book 6 - Solomon's Gold

o Book 7 - Currency

o Book 8 - The System of the World

For those of you not familiar with the book, Stephenson covers a lot of ground using a host of historical figures (e.g., Newton, Pepys, the Duke of York) with a core of fictional characters including Daniel Waterhouse, Eliza (no last name ever provided ), and perhaps one of my favorite fictional characters of all time: Jack Shaftoe. (You may be familiar with the Waterhouses and Shaftoes of Stephenson's Cryptonomicon - also a great read).

I can begin to recount all of the plot here, but if you enjoy historical fiction and a ripping yarn, check this book out. And for those of you that do read this book (or already have), be sure to check out the Metaweb site for the Baroque Cycle.

 

[Woz]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

I know, hence why I wasn't sure how to classify it. I'd be fine if it was made my flex - would prefer it to be sci/fi but I'd understand if it wasn't as the argument for it is shaky at best.

 

[kupcho1]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

You have a point there.It's a great book, and he's still got his flex spot. Let's see what the rest of the group says.

 

[Woz]

5.08 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama

I'm not a huge fan of this book, but it's been labeled as one of the best novels of all time by several sources. Pretty much works as a critique of social life during any time period. Plus I wanted to round out my squad with a female author.

This I don't understand. Why would you draft a book that you don't care for? Who are you trying to impress? Pick books that you enjoy and it makes the exercise more entertaining and meaningful.

I don't like Terrell Owens one bit, yet I'd happily draft him. Isn't this a competition?

And I should clarify, just because I didn't particularly like this book doesn't me it isn't one of the greatest of all time. I had it tops on my drama cheatsheets and was surprised it was still there.

 

[NCCommish]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

You have a point there.It's a great book, and he's still got his flex spot. Let's see what the rest of the group says.

No problem. I agree great book.

 

[kupcho1]

Update through 6.04:1.01 - rikishiboy - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series1.02 - DC Thunder - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic1.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror1.04 - mon - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic1.05 - perry147 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy1.06 - Uncle Humuna - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic1.07 - kupcho1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction1.08 - Woz - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection1.09 - cosjobs - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama1.10 - Assani Fisher - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2.01 - Assani Fisher - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama2.02 - cosjobs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic2.03 - Woz - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic2.04 - kupcho1 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama2.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller2.09 - DC Thunder - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series2.10 - rikishiboy - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror3.02 - DC Thunder - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller3.03 - Ivankaramazov - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.04 - mon - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama3.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction3.09 - cosjobs - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror3.10 - Assani Fisher - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series4.01 - Assani Fisher - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction4.02 - cosjobs - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror4.04 - kupcho1 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy4.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction4.07 - mon - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery4.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama4.09 - DC Thunder - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection4.10 - rikishiboy - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5.01 - rikishiboy - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection5.02 - DC Thunder - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery5.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery5.04 - mon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy5.05 - perry147 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror5.06 - Uncle Humuna - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery5.07 - kupcho1 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection5.08 - Woz - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama5.09 - cosjobs - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection5.10 - Assani Fisher - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6.01 - Assani Fisher - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex6.02 - cosjobs - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex6.03 - Woz - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex6.04 - kupcho1 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series6.05 - Uncle Humuna - - - rikishiboy 1 - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series2 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3 - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror4 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5 - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - DC Thunder 1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic2 - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series3 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller4 - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection5 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Ivankaramazov 1 - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror2 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller3 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama5 - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - mon 1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - perry147 1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy2 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic3 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama4 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction5 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Uncle Humuna 1 - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic2 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex3 - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series5 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - kupcho1 1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction2 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama3 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic4 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy5 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection6 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Woz 1 - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection2 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic3 - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction4 - It - Stephen King - Horror5 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama6 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - cosjobs 1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic3 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror4 - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series5 - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection6 - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Assani Fisher 1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2 - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama3 - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series4 - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction5 - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6 - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Classic - 9Drama - 6Flex - 5Horror - 6Mystery - 4Nonfiction - 4Science Fiction/Fantasy - 5Series - 6Short Story Collection - 6Thriller - 3

 

[Woz]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

You have a point there.It's a great book, and he's still got his flex spot. Let's see what the rest of the group says.

I don't want to cause any controversy. If one more person questions it, just make it my flex. Just here to have some fun and am enjoying myself and have been impressed so far by the selections.

 

[NCCommish]

6.03 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Sci/fi maybe? Fantasy? If not, flex.

Here I went back to great books that I like. I never thought this would make it this far. A quintessential book on man's inner demons.

I think given what happens in the book, we can allow scifi

Murder and the supernatural usually mean horror to me.

You have a point there.It's a great book, and he's still got his flex spot. Let's see what the rest of the group says.

I don't want to cause any controversy. If one more person questions it, just make it my flex. Just here to have some fun and am enjoying myself and have been impressed so far by the selections.

Now I feel bad. Don't want to cause an issue either but since I'll be judging later I thought I should mention it.

 

[NCCommish]

Hope everyone has a good evening. I have to test for my CCNA tomorrow so going to call it a night early.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

No one's taken my favorite book of all time.

"Where the Wild Things Are"?

Yes. How did you know?

 

[Uncle Humuna]

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

 

[perry147]

6.06 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - flex

I was going to choose something else but I had already covered that subject and didn't want to double dip.

 

[kupcho1]

mon on the clockUpdate:1.01 - rikishiboy - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series1.02 - DC Thunder - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic1.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror1.04 - mon - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic1.05 - perry147 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy1.06 - Uncle Humuna - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic1.07 - kupcho1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction1.08 - Woz - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection1.09 - cosjobs - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama1.10 - Assani Fisher - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2.01 - Assani Fisher - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama2.02 - cosjobs - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic2.03 - Woz - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic2.04 - kupcho1 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama2.05 - Uncle Humuna - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic2.07 - mon - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex2.08 - Ivankaramazov - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller2.09 - DC Thunder - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series2.10 - rikishiboy - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3.01 - rikishiboy - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror3.02 - DC Thunder - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller3.03 - Ivankaramazov - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.04 - mon - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror3.05 - perry147 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama3.06 - Uncle Humuna - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy3.07 - kupcho1 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic3.08 - Woz - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction3.09 - cosjobs - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror3.10 - Assani Fisher - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series4.01 - Assani Fisher - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction4.02 - cosjobs - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series4.03 - Woz - It - Stephen King - Horror4.04 - kupcho1 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy4.05 - Uncle Humuna - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series4.06 - perry147 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction4.07 - mon - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery4.08 - Ivankaramazov - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama4.09 - DC Thunder - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection4.10 - rikishiboy - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5.01 - rikishiboy - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection5.02 - DC Thunder - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery5.03 - Ivankaramazov - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery5.04 - mon - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy5.05 - perry147 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror5.06 - Uncle Humuna - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery5.07 - kupcho1 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection5.08 - Woz - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama5.09 - cosjobs - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection5.10 - Assani Fisher - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6.01 - Assani Fisher - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex6.02 - cosjobs - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex6.03 - Woz - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex6.04 - kupcho1 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series6.05 - Uncle Humuna - Jaws - Peter Benchley - Thriller6.06 - perry147 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Flex6.07 - mon - - - rikishiboy 1 - The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov - Series2 - Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes - Classic3 - Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Horror4 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Thriller5 - Red Herring - Jeffrey Archer - Short Story Collection6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - DC Thunder 1 - The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Classic2 - Horatio Hornblower Series - C.S. Forester - Series3 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Thriller4 - The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Collection5 - The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Ivankaramazov 1 - The Stand - Stephen King - Horror2 - Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - Thriller3 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Drama5 - The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon - Mystery6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - mon 1 - The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Classic2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Flex3 - Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft - Horror4 - And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie - Mystery5 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy6 - - - 7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - perry147 1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein - Science Fiction/Fantasy2 - The Iliad - Homer - Classic3 - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Drama4 - Walden - Henry David Thoreau - Nonfiction5 - American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - Horror6 - Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Uncle Humuna 1 - Moby **** - Herman Melville - Classic2 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - Flex3 - Dune - Frank Herbert - Science Fiction/Fantasy4 - The Jack Ryan Series - Tom Clancy - Series5 - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Mystery6 - Jaws - Peter Benchley - Thriller7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - kupcho1 1 - 孫子兵法 (The Art of War) - 孫子 (Sun Tzu) - Nonfiction2 - A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Drama3 - Ulysses - James Joyce - Classic4 - A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess - Science Fiction/Fantasy5 - كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة (The Book of One Thousand and One Nights) - Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar - Short Story Collection6 - The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson - Series7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Woz 1 - The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe - Short Story Collection2 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - Classic3 - The Prince - Machiavelli - Nonfiction4 - It - Stephen King - Horror5 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Drama6 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - cosjobs 1 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - Drama2 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Classic3 - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. **** - Horror4 - Travis McGee Series - John D. MacDonald - Series5 - Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski - Short Story Collection6 - Matthew Scudder Series - Lawrence Block - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Assani Fisher 1 - 1984 - George Orwell - Classic2 - Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Drama3 - Plato's Dialogues - Plato - Series4 - When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi - David Maraniss - Nonfiction5 - The Works of George Berkeley - George Berkeley - Short Story Collection6 - Theory of Poker - David Sklansky - Flex7 - - - 8 - - - 9 - - - 10 - - - Classic - 9Drama - 6Flex - 6Horror - 6Mystery - 4Nonfiction - 4Science Fiction/Fantasy - 5Series - 6Short Story Collection - 6Thriller - 4

 

[kblitz]

I did with my first pick. Although I'm confident I got some greats at every slot so I want to guess which ones may be taken and which won't.

I do wish the non-fiction category was broken down more, there's so many great choices there.

Yeah, the non-fiction category is ultra-deep. I've got about half a dozen entries there that I know will not be drafted. It's tempting to just wait and grab one or two at the very end.

In fact, I think that when this is ovah, we should have a just non-fiction draft, with categories that reflect different types of non-fiction: philosophy, theology, science, political theory, biography, autobiography etc.

If you´re starting a non-fiction draft after this one, I would be interested. Would be even willing to adapt my sleeping habits for it and use one of those spell checker.

 

[cosjobs]

No love for Block / Scudder or Bukowski? There I go over-estimating my audience again. Lawrence Block authored the Matthew Scudder detective series. THey started in 1961 and are still going. Says Block, "In the early books, he’s an angst-ridden hard-drinking ex-cop and unlicensed private eye. In later books he’s sober. He’s twenty-five years older than when I first started writing about him, and he’s gone through changes, even as you and I. Remember what Eubie Blake said on his 100th birthday? "if I’d known I was going to last this long I’d have taken better care of myself."Novels from this series had won Edgar Award, Shamus Award, and Maltese Falcon Award fo best mystery/detective novel as well as many nominations. I very highly recommend this series to anyone. "When the Sacrec Ginmill CLoses" is a great starting point, and probably my personal favorite (1981).============================Charles Bukowski is my favorite write of all-time. "Tales of Ordinary MAdness" is a collection of short storied and poetry "Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," was the original title, and more accurately describes the content than does its current truncated version."With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again""a professional disturber of the peace... laureate of the Los Angeles netherworld (writes with) a crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost." -Jack Kroll, Newsweek This book was the basis for a so-so movie, starring Ben Gazarra. The portrayal by Mickey Rourke was far superior in the under-rated movie "Barfly," which also draws form these short stories.I met Buk at Hollywood Park a few years before he died. We talked the ponies and made a few bets together, mostly losers. I used to aspire to ne a writer, but after reading his work, I figured he said everything I wanted to and lost the desire. Read him. Thank me later.===============================I am snockered at 3 am CST. If it gets to me before 11-12 CST, go ahead and pass me, I'll catch up.

 

[kupcho1]

No love for Block / Scudder or Bukowski? There I go over-estimating my audience again.

Lawrence Block authored the Matthew Scudder detective series. THey started in 1961 and are still going. Says Block, "In the early books, he’s an angst-ridden hard-drinking ex-cop and unlicensed private eye. In later books he’s sober. He’s twenty-five years older than when I first started writing about him, and he’s gone through changes, even as you and I. Remember what Eubie Blake said on his 100th birthday? "if I’d known I was going to last this long I’d have taken better care of myself."

Novels from this series had won Edgar Award, Shamus Award, and Maltese Falcon Award fo best mystery/detective novel as well as many nominations.

I very highly recommend this series to anyone. "When the Sacrec Ginmill CLoses" is a great starting point, and probably my personal favorite (1981).

============================

Charles Bukowski is my favorite write of all-time. "Tales of Ordinary MAdness" is a collection of short storied and poetry

"Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness," was the original title, and more accurately describes the content than does its current truncated version.

"With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again"

"a professional disturber of the peace... laureate of the Los Angeles netherworld (writes with) a crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost." -Jack Kroll, Newsweek

This book was the basis for a so-so movie, starring Ben Gazarra. The portrayal by Mickey Rourke was far superior in the under-rated movie "Barfly," which also draws form these short stories.

I met Buk at Hollywood Park a few years before he died. We talked the ponies and made a few bets together, mostly losers.

I used to aspire to ne a writer, but after reading his work, I figured he said everything I wanted to and lost the desire. Read him. Thank me later.

===============================

I am snockered at 3 am CST. If it gets to me before 11-12 CST, go ahead and pass me, I'll catch up.

I'm not too proud to admit I've never even heard of Scudder, and I read a lot of that genre (sounds a bit like another shamus from down Tipsy's way)."With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him." - couldn't ring any truer. Let's just say I khonw him, but I don't love him.

 

[DCThunder]

Kupcho, good pick with The Baroque Cycle. I just finished "System of the World" over the weekend and now I need to go back and start re-reading "Quicksilver" to reconnect the themes that ended the cycle with the beginning.I thought Eliza kind of got lost in "System" in that it was mainly a tale of Daniel and his own growth at an "advanced" age. I also need to finish "Crypto", which I set aside to read the Cycle.

 

[mon]

I'm here, give me a sec. Mornin'.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

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.

 

[mon]

Tales of Ordinary Madness already gone? Great pick, cosjobs. It was at the top of my list.

 

[mon]

6.07 The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, ss collection

It is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as "The Veldt," wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or "Kaleidoscope," a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or "Zero Hour," in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now.