Book Nominations!

[mith]

Trying to upload my spreadsheet, but mafiascum is being a pain. Here's what I've got as far as >1 nominations.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams - 15
Ender's Game - Card - 10
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien - 8
1984 - Orwell - 7
Catch 22 - Heller - 7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling - 7
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Hofstadter - 6
The Bible - 6
The Princess Bride - Goldman - 6
Animal Farm - Orwell - 5
Dune - Herbert - 5
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger - 5
The Da Vinci Code - Brown - 5
The Hobbit - Tolkein - 5
Choke - Palahniuk - 4
Good Omens - Prachett/Gaiman - 4
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling - 4
Macbeth - Shakespeare - 4
Neuromancer - Gibson - 4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain - 4
The Odyssey - Homer - 4
Wizard and Glass - King - 4
A Civil Campaign - Bujold - 3
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn - 3
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque - 3
And Then There Were None/Ten Little Indians - Christie - 3
Feet of Clay - Prachett - 3
Flowers for Algernon - Keyes - 3
Franny and Zooey - Salinger - 3
Guards! Guards! - Pratchett - 3
Jurassic Park - Crichton - 3
Lord of the Flies - Golding - 3
Magician - Feist - 3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Kesey - 3
Redwall - Jacques - 3
Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Sachar - 3
Slaughterhouse-Five - Vonnegut - 3
Small Gods - Prachett - 3
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas - 3
The Giver - Lowry - 3
The Golden Compass/Northern Lights - Pullman - 3
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - Lewis - 3
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Adams - 3
The Stand - King - 3
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee - 3
A Brief History of Time - Hawking - 2
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll - 2
Brave New World - Huxley - 2
Candide - Voltaire - 2
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut - 2
Charlotte's Web - White - 2
Cyrano d'Bergerac - Rostand - 2
Death on the Nile - Christie - 2
Farenheit 451 - Bradbury - 2
Hamlet - Shakespeare - 2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Rowling - 2
Heir to the Empire - Zahn - 2
I, Robot - Asimov - 2
Icarus Hunt - Zahn - 2
It - King - 2
Kama Sutra - 2
Les Miserables - Hugo - 2
Life, the Universe, and Everything - Adams - 2
Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden - 2
Mere Christianity - Lewis - 2
Mort - Prachett - 2
Mossflower - Jacques - 2
Murder on the Orient Express - Christie - 2
My Name is Asher Lev - Potok - 2
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - Eliot - 2
On the Road - Kerouac - 2
Pillars of the Earth - Follett - 2
Pride and Prejudice - Austen - 2
Sphere - Crichton - 2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain - 2
The Dead Zone - King - 2
The Divine Comedy - Dante - 2
The Glass Bead Game - Hesse - 2
The Master of Go - Kawabata - 2
The Merriam Webster Dictionary - 2
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein - 2
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Christie - 2
The Oxford English Dictionary - 2
The Sandman: Brief Lives - Gaiman - 2
The Shining - King - 2
The Silmarillion - Tolkien - 2
The Stranger - Camus - 2
The Three Musketeers - Dumas - 2
Watchmen - Moore - 2
Watership Down - Adams - 2
Where the Red Fern Grows - Rawls - 2

(as of post 124)

[mith]

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[Antrax]

Thanks for reminding me, evil twin:
17. Les Miserables - Hugo
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[mith]

Finishing my list:

The Shadow Rising - Jordan
Wizard and Glass - King
The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Adams
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling
Sphere - Crichton
Flowers for Algernon - Keyes

[casinopete]

I'd say I appreciate the support, neutral twin, but really you've just provided me with another tendril of hope to be crushed when this kicks off for real.

[mith]

Considering there are 64 with 2+ nominations, I'm tempted to go ahead and close this and start, but I guess I'll give it another few days.

[Dragon Phoenix]

[jesternl]

No time to put an entry together, so hopefully this is still on time:

Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
It - Stephen King
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
In search of Klingsor - Jorge Volpi
Pillars of the earth - Ken Follett
The Quincunx - Jack Palliser
Hithchiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

more to follow

[mith]

I almost started this this morning, but I caught myself before I procrastinated too much on my essay. Will probably wait until Friday, when my essay is due. So you've got time.

[Courk]

Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

[Jedo the Jedi]

The Dark Tower - King

(I think that is it's only nomination, but I just had to do it. That is the last one, by the way.)

[MatthewV]

I don't remember what I recommended last time but...
The Giver
is one of my favorites

[Dmi]

My Nominations:

Ender's Game - Card
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Hobbit - Tolkien
Animal Farm - Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain
The Da Vinci Code - Brown
Redwall - Jacques
Mossflower - Jacques
His Dark Materials series/Golden Compass - Pullman
The Ruby in the Smoke/Sally Lockhart series - Pullman
Count Karlstein - Pullman
Prey - Crichton
Timeline - Crichton
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee
Artemis Fowl series - Colfer

[just a girl]

you can't nominate a whole series as one book, Dmi. (If you could, I'd say the Miles Vorkosigan series by Bujold)

[Guest]

Sorry. Ignore that post, then.

Ender's Game - Card
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
The Hobbit - Tolkien
Animal Farm - Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Rowling
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain
The Da Vinci Code - Brown
Redwall - Jacques
Mossflower - Jacques
The Golden Compass - Pullman
The Subtle Knife - Pullman
The Amber Spyglass - Pullman
Count Karlstein - Pullman
Prey - Crichton
Timeline - Crichton
To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee
Artemis Fowl - Colfer
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Colfer

[Dmi]

That was me.

[Macros]

LotR - Tolien (predictable, no? )
the Hobbit - tolkien
Magician - R. Fiest
Honoured Enemy - R Feist
Servant of the Empire - R Feist, J Wurts
Mistress of the Empire - R Feist, J Wurts
Shadow of a dark queen - R Feist
Rage of a demon king - R Feist
Sharpes Tiger - B Cornwell
Sharpes Gold - B Cornwell
Sharpes Rifles - B Cornwell
Sharpes Seige - B Cornwell
Gaurds Gaurds - T Prachett
Feet of Clay - T Prachett
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Eric - T Prachett
Small Gods - T Prachett
Mort - T Prachett
The Eye of the World- R Jordan
Harry potter and the prisoner of Azkaban - Jk Rowling
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[The Ktulu]

Seeing as people are still posting nominations, I suppose I'll list a few nominations myself.

Not in order:
1. The Bible - various men, inspired by god
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. Wizard & Glass - Stephen King
4. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
5. Closing Time - Joseph Heller
6. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
7. The Odyssey - Homer
8. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
9. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
10. Strangers - Dean Koontz
11. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
12. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
13. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
14. It - Stephen King
15. The Stand - Stephen King
16. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
17. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
18. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
19. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
20. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
21. Insomnia - Stephen King
22. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk

If I don't get the other three in by Friday, just count that as the list in its entirety.

[Kagredon]

Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle.
The Princess Bride, by S. Morgenstern William Goldman.
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker, by Dorothy Parker.
Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes.

[Dragon Phoenix]

[mith]

Third, actually.

I don't know whether I'll actually get a chance to start this tomorrow; my essay's in, but I've got classes to sit in on in the morning, looking at rooms at 2, and then my sister is here for the weekend. So, we'll see. Sunday night at the latest, anyway.

[Mackay]

Mere Christianity - Lewis

Thanks Kt!

(I'm not nominating the Bible... imagine it losing out to "The Da Vinci Code" or Harry Potter...)

[Dmi]

I've always been under the impression that books are underlined, not surrounded by quotes.

[The Ktulu]

That's correct, but few people seem to notice it, usually.

You're welcome, Mackay GAH! I almost said "Your"!

[The Master]

Here is what I was taught about that rot:
Underline and Italics are exactly the same. Underline was only used for typewriters because they cannot type in Italics. Italics is the preferred form for books, movies, etc. Quotes are used for shorter works from collections and such.
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[wordcross]

Well, if we're still doing nominations, I guess i'll do mine.

In no particular order:

1) Ender's Game - Card
2) The Talismas of Shannara - Brooks
3) Tanequil - Brooks
4) Rhapsody - Haydon
5) The Giver - Lowry
6) Gaurds Gaurds - Prachett
7) Feet of Clay - Prachett
8) Mort - Prachett
9) Going Postal - Pratchett
10) Bridge to Terabithia - Paterson
11) Magician - Feist
12) They Skystone - Whyte
13) The Qur'an - God
14) Shadow Moon - Claremont
15) MacBeth - Shakespeare
16) The Wastelands - King
17) Eyes of the Dragon - King
18) Homeland - Salvatore
19) The Silent Blade - Salvatore
20) The Spine of the World - Salvatore
21) Jurassic Park - Crichton
22) Relic - Preston and Child
23) The Cabinet of Curiosities - Preston and Child
24) Dragon's Blood - Yolen
25) The Blue Sword - McKinley

Meh, I'm not entirely satisfied with that list, and i may make changes if there's still time left at some point.

Don't hold your breath, though
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[Courk]

I may be incredibly mistaken, but I thought, ideally, when you write something out by hand, you print normal text and then use cursive for italics.

[The Ktulu]

I've never heard of that, but it makes sense (except for people who always write cursive). Not that I'm going to do it. I'll stick to underlining stuff. Ever since we were allowed in middle school to use "print" handwriting again (elementary school required us to use cursive once we learned it) I began to stop writing in cursive. I had to write in cursive some statement on the SAT and it took me quite some time....

[The Master]

I can't even remember how to form some letters in cursive. I write in all caps all the time. I also usually write in italics instead of underlining, but it never turns out as good as I plan. I think I make them too slanty.
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[mithy]

I rarely hand-write anything except for math stuff and forms. I've never written in cursive, except that one year the teacher made us.

Updating the spreadsheet now (got here late, so there was no point going to the first class). If I start the tournament today, it will be after 10 my time, so if you get your nominations in before then, you're fine. After that, it just depends on when I have time.

[dethwing]

I never write either. I even do math typing with LaTex.

[Internet Stranger]

It saddens me to see that none of you clowns read comic books. Youre missing out on some great literature.
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[Coyote]

Libraries don't have comic books, you have to go to a store and pay for them. I refuse to read great literature unless its free.

[mith]

I almost nominated something from Sandman, but couldn't decide which.

[Dread Pirate Westley]

Just to irk several people who posted in the movie rankings thread

The Treasured Ones -Eddings & Eddings (First listing on Amazon)

Mwahaha...ha.

[extro...]

1984, George Orwell
The Stranger, Camus

[L'lanmal]

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Hofstadter
The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes - Raymond Smullyan
Icarus Hunt - Timothy Zahn
A Civil Campaign - Lois McMaster Bujold
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Feet of Clay - Prachett
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
Generatingfunctionology - Herbert S. Wilf
The Real Book - Anonymous/various
Lyrical Studies for Trumpet or Horn - Guiseppe Concone
The Sherlock Holmes Treasury - Arthur Conan Doyle (compolation)
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Notes:

The first two I nominate only because they are relavant to the GL.
I've never read GFology all the way through, but seems to be good introductory material. It would be nice to be able to say a generating function for the Final Exam puzzle in VSP is (1-e^(-2x))/(2*(1-x)^2), and have people understand what I'm talking about. (Incidentally, actually is the ordinary gf for expected number of seats filled. Feel free to check it.)

The Real Book may be illegal, but it's useful. Kind of torn on that one.

Note to the brass players: Yeah, I like Concone more than Arbon, really.

I'm not sure if I'm thinking of Feet of Clay or Night Watch or some other Prachett book, but since Feet of Clay already has a nomination, I'll assume that's the one I liked so much.

Around the World in 80 Days is one I think nobody really hates, so even if I don't think it is the greatest ever, I think it makes an interesting nomination.

Books which I'd feel like nominating even though they don't, technically, exist:
The Rules of Acquisition - Grand Nagus Gint, et al. (Star Trek lore)
The Book (which, according to Erdos and others, contains the most elegant proof for each mathematical problem) - God, suppposed editor

[Elayne]

The Da Vinci Code - Brown
A Civil Campaign - Lois McMaster Bujold
Icarus Hunt - Timothy Zahn
Ender's Game - Card
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

[mudbuck]

No... Flewelling... *cries*
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