Book Nominations!

[just a girl]

okay, it's too late I guess but I will definitely second these:

A Civil Campaign -- Bujold
(The Sandman vol. VII) Brief Lives -- Gaiman
Pillars of the Earth -- Follett
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Carroll
I, Robot -- Asimov
Candide -- Voltaire
The Giver -- Lowry
The Stand -- King
The Odyssey -- Homer
Sideways Stories From Wayside School -- Sachar
Watership Down -- Adams
Charlotte's Web -- White
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Golden
Pride and Prejudice -- Austen

if only to encourage more people to read them.

[wordcross]

[Antrax]

Shogun hasn't been seconded?
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[Kagredon]

I'll second Watchmen (Alan Moore).

And a third for All Quiet on the Western Front.

[mith]

Current breakdown:

15 - 1
10 - 1
8 - 1
7 - 3
6 - 3
5 - 5
4 - 8
3 - 23
2 - 46

Gotta go now though.

[Random UK person. Pah!]

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall - Spike Milligan
Monty: His Part in My Victory - Spike Milligan

[Internet Stranger]

Finally! Someone who appreciates the art of the graphic novel.
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[Elayne]

Oh more additions since I am not close to at my limit

Watership Down -- Adams
Pride and Prejudice -- Austen

[mith]

Nominations closed. I'll withdraw mine from Sideways Stories to give better numbers. Will start the tourney within the next hour.

[mith]

There are 46 books with at least 3 nominations. There are 45 with exactly 2. We'll have a runoff with the 2s to fill the final 18 spots. Groups of 5, top 2 move on.

[mith]

And I'm out of time. I'll start the threads when I get back from the train station (still before most of you are awake, I bet. )

[Antrax]

Wrong. Hah!
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[Antrax]

But all of me is awake, ergo most of me is awake, too
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[MatthewV]

I'll help Antrax be more than "most people of you"

[Elayne]

L'lanmal and I are up and sappy too

[mith]

Most of you is awake, but most of you are not. Or something.

[mith]

Group 1:

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse

Group 2:

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkein

Group 3:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Mort - Terry Pratchett
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Group 4:

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
My Name is Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
The Stranger - Albert Camus

Group 5:

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
The Sandman Vol. VII: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

Group 6:

Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata
The Oxford English Dictionary
Watchmen - Alan Moore

Group 7:

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Candide - Voltaire
Icarus Hunt - Timothy Zahn
Mossflower - Brian Jacques
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - T.S. Eliot

Group 8:

Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
It - Stephen King
Kama Sutra
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Sphere - Michael Crichton

Group 9:

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King

I'll get the rest of the bracket up later.

[Elayne]

ohh links to book. Thanks mith

[L'lanmal]

The following are free online etexts through Project Gutenburg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ )

Group 3:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père

Group 5:
The Divine Comedy by Dante (Several translations)

Group 6:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Group 7:
Romans — Volume 4: Candide by Voltaire (In French, but not English)

Group 8:
Le Kama Soutra by Vatsyayana (French, plain text only)

Group 9:
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Plain text only)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Text, HTML, or MP3 audio)

[mithy]

Due to my internet connection being down, I may not be able to get the bracket up and start round 1 tomorrow. If I don't, I'll get it up Monday morning. The runoffs will stay open until I update.

[mith]

Runoff results:

[mith]

If you want to see the complete bracket, go here. I'll probably wait and do the amazon links for each division when we get to it.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Division

1 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Book 1 of the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy) - Douglas Adams
16 - The Oxford English Dictionary
9 - Guards! Guards! (part of the Discworld Series) - Terry Prachett
8 - Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
5 - Macbeth - William Shakespeare
12 - Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
13 - Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
4 - Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
3 - The Bible - Various Authors
14 - Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
11 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 - And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians) - Agatha Christie
7 - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Book 2 of the Narnia Series) - C.S. Lewis
10 - The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
15 - A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
2 - The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure - William Goldman

[mith]

Division 1984

1 - 1984 - George Orwell
16 - Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
9 - Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
8 - Redwall (Book 1 of the Redwall Series) - Brian Jacques
5 - Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
12 - Watership Down - Richard Adams
13 - Kama Sutra
4 - Animal Farm - George Orwell
3 - Dune (Book 1 of the Dune Chronicles) - Frank Herbert
14 - I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
11 - Small Gods (part of the Discworld Series) - Terry Pratchett
6 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5 of the Harry Potter Series) - J.K. Rowling
7 - The Giver - Lois Lowry
10 - The Stand - Stephen King
15 - The Stranger - Albert Camus
2 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3 of the Harry Potter Series) - J.K. Rowling

[dethwing]

I see you still insist in ordering the matches incorectly

[mith]

Hush, you.

The Lord of the Division

1 - The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
16 - The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
9 - Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
8 - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5 - Neuromancer - William Gibson
12 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
13 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
4 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
3 - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
14 - Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
11 - The Golden Compass (also known as Northern Lights, Book 1 of the His Dark Materials Trilogy) - Philip Pullman
6 - Wizard and Glass (Book 4 of the Dark Tower Series) - Stephen King
7 - Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
10 - All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Remarque
15 - The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
2 - Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

[mithy]

No connection today, so I will update first thing in the morning tomorrow.

[mith]

Ender's Division

1 - Ender's Game (Book 1 of the Ender Wiggin Saga) - Orson Scott Card
16 - Mossflower - Brian Jacques
9 - Magician (Book 1 of the Riftwar Saga) - Raymond Feist
8 - Feet of Clay (part of the Discworld Series) - Terry Pratchett
5 - The Odyssey - Homer
12 - Hamlet - William Shakespeare
13 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
4 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
3 - The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
14 - Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
11 - Lord of the Flies - William Golding
6 - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Book 2 of the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy) - Douglas Adams
7 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10 - A Civil Campaign - Lois Bujold
15 - Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
2 - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter

[dethwing]

I've only read 3 of those. I'm beginning to realize how uncultured I am.

[Elayne]

For me this is the bracket where I have read the most at 7.5 (Odyssey I read parts of for school)

[Dragon Phoenix]

I come to 9.... including large parts of the Odyssey in Greek...

[Courk]

I, too, have only read 3 of those.

[mith]

11, 7, 9, 8 (some are only parts, though).

[Jedo the Jedi]

Which ones? I'm surprised because I've actually read 9-10. I can't remember if I actually ever read the Alice book, but I'm pretty sure I started it.
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[Courk]

I've read Mossflower, Lord of the Flies, and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I saw Hamlet (the one with Gibson), but I don't know how close it was to Shakespeare's actual writing.

[Dmi]

I read 7 of those books, and 2 abridged versions.
Hmm. And I thought I was ignorant.

[Courk]

None of the other books really interest me. I read part of a Kurt Vonnegut book once and didn't really like it. I was mildly interested in reading The Da Vinci Code when it first came out, but I never got around to it, and my current interest in it is much less that it was.

[casinopete]

Since others are comparing...

I have read 47 of the 63 books in the tourney (not sure how to count the OED).

[mith]

I counted OED as a partial. So if we're ignoring it, 30 out of 63. Quite a few I should read, though I doubt I'll try to read all of them like I tried to watch all the movies (still a few left to finish off when I get home, the Blockbuster here doesn't have them ).