Announcement: The 2nd Annual (2010) Constant Reader Awards!

[mae]

The scores for Group 2 are being delayed a bit, because we've run into the problem I discussed above, where people were making more (or less) than a single vote in each grading area. Since it's a multiple choice poll with ten selectable choices, it's easy to make a mistake. Thus I'd like to reiterate that when you're voting, please check your selections carefully before submitting. If you see that you screwed up (your choices show up in italics) and selected more (or less) than a single choice in each grading area, please let us know so we can fix it.

[mae]

Well the last group, Group 6, is up for voting! Get to your polling stations When it closes, so will our Round 2, and the top ten books will move on to the third and final found!

Bad news, though. As a lot of people have been voting (thank you), there have cropped up some understandable mistakes, as these second round polls are not super straightforward I'm afraid. No real way around that. So I'll be working on weeding out the mis-votes and putting up the final scores as I count them, which can take a few days. So please excuse these delays, but understand I'm trying to get through them as quickly as possible.

[mae]

The final results for Round 2 have all been posted. The following ten books advance to the the third and final face-off round, which commences on June 7:


1: The Stand - 7.699695122 (96.25%) - 1st in R2
2: The Drawing of the Three - 7.458128079 (93.23%) - 3rd in R2
3: It - 7.441979950 (93.02%) - 2nd in R2
4: The Shining - 7.418167267 (92.73%) - 7th in R2
5: The Green Mile - 7.358091787 (91.98%) - 6th in R2
6: The Waste Lands - 7.354834055 (91.94%) - 4th in R2
7: 'Salem's Lot - 7.345284238 (91.82%) - 8th in R2
8: Different Seasons - 7.324465812 (91.56%) - 10th in R2
9: The Talisman - 7.306523264 (91.33%) - 5th in R2
10: Pet Sematary - 7.258059778 (90.73%) - 14th in R2

Round 3 is a simple process where you'll be given a choice of two books. Given the choice, please vote on which of the two books you would rather re-read (there will be a "never read either or both" option too). Each of the ten finalists will face-off against all the other books in this round. For each victory the winner will receive an additional 0.1 to its Final Average Score.

[mae]

For the record, last year's finalists looked like this:

1. The Drawing of the Three
2. The Stand
3. It
4. The Waste Lands
5. The Dark Tower
6. The Talisman
7. Different Seasons
8. The Green Mile
9. The Long Walk
10. The Shining

So 'Salem's Lot and Pet Sematary make this year's Finals, and The Dark Tower and The Long Walk are out.

[mae]

Voting is underway in Round 3

[JRM]

[mae]

Dunno why but the voter turnout has really went down after Wave 1 Come on people, exercise your democratic rights!

[Jean]

hear, hear

the same goes for the Appended Categories.