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THE BOOK DRAFT (1 Viewer)
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roadeyes
Footballguy
If you decide to go that route, I would gladly judge. Of course, I have some preconceived notions about some of these selections, but I'd be willing to take another look and listen to arguments on behalf of said selection.At any rate, if you guys have the time, I'd like to see more commentary on why certain choices were made (without naming undrafted books, of course). Post draft, I'd like to read a summary from each drafter about why their selection is strong and why they chose it over another.Well, I suggested we get three FBG who know books to select the winners. Interested in being one of the judges?No, really. It's true I am currently occupied with other nerdy pursuits and missed the boat on this one. But I regard you guys as the beau monde of the drafting nerd set. I'll quietly observe (and learn) from the sidelines.Anyway, what do you do, exactly, after the draft? I mean, who wins? Don't tell me that will be left to the FFA to determine. Face it-you NEED a sim machine.And you're not in because you slept too late?Love this draft, you stumbling herd of myopics.
Are you guys using a sim machine to to play out a season when the draft is done?
Maybe Houghton-Mifflin or Random House could generate a sim based on total sales, number of reprints, editions, weeks on the Times best seller list, positive reviews, curriculum additions, etc...?
All the nerds are doing it.
Did I just go way overboard? I never know.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
I chose The Stand because I think the Horror genre is very, very weak. I can only think of maybe half a dozen horror novels that stand out as being worth including in a library. So I decided to go ahead and fill that position now before it gets picked over. So in other words I went with VBD, where The Stand = Antonio Gates.
Is this my favorite book? No. But I do think it's Stephen King's best book. It features numerous fleshed-out characters, multiple overlapping story-lines, and and it's stood up well over the decades since it was first published. It's the only book by Stephen King I've ever read twice, which says something.
My basic philosophy is that I'm drafting a library for a typical FBG who's going to be stuck on a desert island for a couple of years. I want to give my FBG peer a well-balanced library with a diversity of stuff to read. I'll add some meat and literary pretension to the library with later picks, and I think when all is said and done The Stand will be a nice selection that adds some "easy, relaxing reading" to the mix.
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Sorry ya'll.
Didn't mean to kill it.
Should have asked who was gonna be around instead of just PMing Woz.
Anyhoo:
2.05 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (SciFi)
Didn't mean to kill it.
Should have asked who was gonna be around instead of just PMing Woz.
Anyhoo:
2.05 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (SciFi)
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Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Excellent turn . . .
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Hate to be a pain in the ####, but I yam what I yam.Gonna take your advice and make this my "Classic" pick.
Thanks dude
kupcho1
Footballguy
Updated1.01 - 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 - Science Fiction/Fantasy
rikishiboy
Footballguy
just woke up...and updated the 1st page..i am off to work now, I pmed DC Thunder a list for my upcoming 2 picks.
kupcho1
Footballguy
From perry147:
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 - Science Fiction/Fantasy2.06 - perry147 - The Iliad - Homer - Classicmon is up
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Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Simply my favorite "Classic".Thought I'd need to grab it early.
Nuff said.
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Simply my favorite book, period.Thought I'd better grab it early.
Nuff said.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I've gotten in on him a little late, but I've read two of his (that I won't name) in the last couple of years. I take it this is the one you would recommend?
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Definitely.But I like a lot of his stuff.
I'll PM you some others
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Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Dope.Definitely.But I like a lot of his stuff.
I'll PM you some others
I went with Poe's collection for short stories because I'm guessing it's not a very deep category and Poe is regarded as one of the best writers period. I then chose Gulliver's Travels because it is one of the most brilliant satires if not books on whole that I have ever read. Thoroughly enjoyable and parodied a society beautifully.
cosjobs
Footballguy
I chose "Lonesome Dove" because it is like an old, dear friend. I have read it many times and can pick it up about any time, open to any random page and immediately be "in" the story. Gus is one of the most wonderful characters ever written and his interplay with Call is classic.
roadeyes
Footballguy
That's what I'm talikng about. A little reasoning behind the pick.The Stand is a good story and it scared the crap out of me when I first read it (on a cross country bicycle trip, usually alone in my tent at night in some hillbilly backwater. Bad idea.) I'd agree that it seems like good value in a weak category.
Will you guys be judged on the overall literacy of your selections or the readability? Maybe best balance? Greatest influence? Most popular?
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Wish I had grabbed it in the 1st.20/20 . . .
perry147
Footballguy
I am going the VBD route, my first pick LOTR is without a doubt the greatest fantasy book of all time and all others are compared. I then chose the Iliad because it is one of the pillars of western literature and could not pass on it.I was surprised it was still there. I had it #2 overall on my list but decided to go with Poe due to the high quality of books in the classic genre compared to short stories.
20/20 . . .
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Is anybody going to be around that I can PM my next pick to? I'm not too far from logging off for the night, and I don't want to hold things up.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
PM sent.
randall146
Footballguy
That last list may have been in jest but there should be a modern novel requirement
rikishiboy
Footballguy
just checking in on my lunch break...I will supply reasoning for my picks after work today.....since I am gone when most of you are on, I am gonna nominate Kupcho1 to be allowed to make any decisions that he feels would help this draft. I am not really picky, simply want agood thread that can be enjoyed.
Captain Ahab
Footballguy
Well why haven´t you? Instead you picked a book full of lies about me, written by Melville, the Michael Moore of the 19th century, based on false facts and second hand information from Ishmael this traitor. He made it look like as if I was a crazy, old, one legged boss who limps around at night, is a control freak and demands to much from his workers as if I were Tom Coughlin. Well I am not crazy, I may be sometimes a little bit passionated and sometimes get carried away, but I am not the lunatic Melville wants me to make into. I also didn´t lose my leg to a whale, but to Starbuck, this fool, who couldn´t properly handle a fondue pot, it slipped and overturned and I was marked forever in a stinky tavern in Jacksonville. God do I hate Cheese fondue.
20/20 . . .
Anyway whosoever of you brings me Melville with his wrinkled brow and his crooked jaw; whosoever of you brings me that traitor Ishmael - whosoever of you raises me those same two, he shall have this gold ounce, my boys!
rikishiboy
Footballguy
just alittle more reasoning for my first pick...The Foundation series. I was tempted to take something from the classics as my first choice and I have liked many, but to be honest none of them would truly be one of my favorite books. Does this mean that the Foundation series was? No, it wasn't.....however I do feel that it was a very well designed set of books and I enjoyed them immensely. In my opinion this series has done as much, if not more than Tolkeins series has for the realm of the fantasy novel...and frankly I liked it more. I may regret not taking a more socially accepted great classic, but I am happy with my pick....and feel that the man who brought us the word robotics deserves to have the 1.1 spot.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Looks like mon is still on deck . . .
As I said about "Gatsby" when I picked it, I think it is arguably The Great American Novel. It's a story of a classic American theme of the "self-made" man and the fact that all men have secrets they'd prefer didn't come to life. It's also a portrait of the idle rich in Tom and Daisy, people who
"were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ."
It has also created images and phrases that are still in use today. It is simply a wonderful book to read and think about, perfect for Ivan's desert island.
"were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . ."
It has also created images and phrases that are still in use today. It is simply a wonderful book to read and think about, perfect for Ivan's desert island.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
2.08 Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk -- Thriller
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