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CodeBlack
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:17 pm |
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weremensh
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:10 pm |
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+5 Fahrenheit 451
and a few points for Uranium 235.
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Crake
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:56 pm |
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Brunqea
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Post Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:56 pm |
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-4 Fahrenheit
+1 Foundation
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-3 Moon FTK
+1 Fahrenheit
+1 Foundation
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CodeBlack
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:03 am |
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:32 am |
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oohhh does that mean that moon is dead?
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FreakyBoy
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:17 am |
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-4 Foundation
+1 Fahrenheit
Yes, the Moon may be a Harsh Mistress, but she has been tamed as the third best book of all time as determined by Sluggites.
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WOTrombone
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Brunqea
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:27 am |
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And the final three finished in alphabetical order.
(four actually, But Slaughterhouse has been dead for days so I didn't count it)
I blame Quixoto and his plague, if the update had been on time Foundation would still be alive (for a few more hours at least.)
1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
2. The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
4. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
5. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
6. The Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
7. Watership Down - Richard Adams
8. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
9. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
10. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
11. Sluggy Freelance (Books 1-9) - Pete Abrams
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller Jr.
13. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
14. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- Tom Stoppard
15. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
16. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
17. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
18. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
19. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
20. Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlen
21. 1984 - George Orwell
22. Watchmen - Alan Moore
23. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
24. The Iliad - Homer
25. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
26. The Cartoon History of the Universe - Larry Gonick
27. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
28. Dirk Gently Series - Douglas Adams
29. The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
30. The Lorax - Dr. Suess
31. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
32. The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
33. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
34. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
35. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
36. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
37. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
38. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K LeGuin
39. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
40. The Chosen - Chiam Potok
41. The Sandman Series - Neil Gaiman
42. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
43. Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne
44. Strangers in Paradise (Issues 1-88) - Terry Moore
45. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
46. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
47. Dune - Frank Herbert
48. Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
49. Roughing It - Mark Twain
50. Thud! - Terry Pratchett
51. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
53. A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
54. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
55. Paradise Lost - John Milton
56. Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
57. Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
58. The Little House on the Prarie Series - Laura Ingles Wilder
59. A Series Of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
60. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore
61. The Cricket In Times Square - George Selden
62. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
63. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - EL Koningsburg
64. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
65. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
66. I, Robot - Issac Asimov
67. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
68. Jumper - Stephen Gould
69. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
70. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
71. Maus - Art Speigleman
72. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
73. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
74. The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
75. Wheel of Time Series - Robert Jordan
76. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
77. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
78. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
79. Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck
80. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
81. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick
82. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
83. The Oxford English Dictionary
84. John Dies at the End - David Wong
85. Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
86. The Little Prince - Antoine Saint-Exupery
87. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
88. American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
89. The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft
90. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
91. The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
92. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
93. It - Stephen King
94. Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
95. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
96. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell - Susannna Clarke
97. Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
98. Legacy of the Aldenata - John Ringo
99. Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin
100. The Postman - David Brin
101. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
102. Vamped - Stephen Sosonowski
My thanks to all who participated.
Runner-up authors will receive...
the same prize as the first place book actually. Royalties on all copies sold.
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:15 am |
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Hey, where's Dienetics?
Joke!
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:11 pm |
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Dienetics has its own list.
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Brunqea
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Post Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:27 am |
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quixoto wrote: Hey, where's Dienetics?
Did you mean Di anetics by L Ron Hubbard? If so, sorry but it's a little late for new nominations.
Or were you referring to the company in Michigan? In that case, I don't get it.
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WOTrombone
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Post Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:28 am |
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Man, I wish that i had been here earlier so that i could have at Least Tried to Keep the Wheel of Time alive. Well at least i got to feel the Joy that is killing a book.
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Surgoshan
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Post Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:30 am |
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Why would you want to keep WoT alive? Robert Jordan is doing that well enough on his own, unfortunately.
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