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    Seconds: Animal Farm, The Road
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    Nominate: Beloved by Tori Morrison
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    I AM LEGEND has my vote.

    Nominate: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne.


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    2nd: 20,000 Leagues...

    nominating Finnegan's Wake
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    1984 8
    20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 1
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 4
    American Psycho 1
    Andromeda Strain, The 3
    Animal Farm 2
    Battlefield Earth 0
    Beloved 0
    Breakfast of Champions 1
    Candide 3
    Castle, The 2
    Catch-22 4
    Catcher in the Rye, The 4
    Charlotte's Web 3
    Children of Men 0
    Clockwork Orange, A 3
    Count of Monte Cristo, The 2
    Dark Tower, The 7
    David Copperfield 3
    Dracula 4
    East of Eden 1
    Exorcist, The 4
    Fahrenheit 451 5
    Fight Club 3
    Finnegan's Wake 0
    Frankenstein 2
    Geek Love 0
    Ghost Story 3
    Glass Bead Game, The 3
    Haunting of Hill House, The 3
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The 3
    I Am Legend 4
    Interview With The Vampire 2
    It 4
    Jane Eyre 3
    Jaws
    Journey to the Center of the Earth 2
    Kim 2
    Lolita 4
    Lord Of The Flies 8
    Lord of the Rings 4
    Lost World, The 2
    Master and Margarita, The 0
    Monk, The 0
    Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The 0
    Northanger Abbey 3
    Of Mice and Men 4
    One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 4
    Outsiders, The 2
    Portnoy's Complaint
    Psycho 2
    Rabbit Series 0
    Road, The 2
    Scarlet Letter, The 3
    Silence of the Lambs, The 2
    Slaughterhouse-Five 3
    Stand, The 5
    Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 4
    Stranger, The 2
    Terror, The 2
    Thief of Always, The 2
    To Kill a Mockingbird 9
    Treasure Island 4
    Trial, The 1
    Turn of the Screw, The 3
    War and Peace 1
    Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    Wuthering Heights 2

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    I would like to nominate the childrens book:

    Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
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    will 2nd Battlefield Earth

    nominating Little Women.


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    bears (at last) nominate The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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    Ill second Where The Red Ferj Grows (wonderful little novel, would love to reread one day). I'll seconds bears nomination of The Brothers Karamazov when I finish it in a week or so...had to put it down to finish my own book....almost on part IV
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    I second 20,000 Leagues... (was going to nominate it myself, really) and Brothers Karamazov.
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    Seconding The Outsiders

    Nominating A Song of Fire and Ice - the whole series
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    Seconding 20,000 Leagues, nominating Don Quixote (especially in the excellent new translation!).

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    +1 song of fire and ice
    +1 brothers karamazov

    nominating The Stand
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    if we're talking about one and the same Stand, it has already been nominated, and collected 5 more votes

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    Second the Outsiders
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    if we're talking about one and the same Stand, it has already been nominated, and collected 5 more votes
    Oh, well erase their nomination and take mine.
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    I have replaced the current Stand entry with your nomination and your five secondings thereof.

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    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
    I’ll be your friend forever


    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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    The Shining
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    Room by Eleanor Donoghue.

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    I second A Song of Fire and Ice - whole series

    I nominate the Bram Stoker award winning Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

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    I second Carrion Comfort (though I prefer the shorter version).
    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
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    The Shining seconded (probably my own Top 3 King novel). Nominating The Sound and the Fury.

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    I'll second Little Women and The Shining.

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    I nominate Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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