I wasn't being serious, just trying to make a point.
I wasn't being serious, just trying to make a point.
Sloth Love Chunk
bears nominate Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to second Koko, and nominate Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (the apocalypse has never been so funny!).
The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard
it is a novel, the only novel he wrote the rest of the Hyborian tales are short stories and novellas that i know of
Our Man in Havana ... sec.
My Stephen King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...on-Stockerlone
Non-King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rlone-Non-King
So many of these, I havent read. And my "to read" stack is already pretty high.
Sloth Love Chunk
bears nominate awesomeness incarnate:
The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our Man seconded. Nominating Carl Sagan's Contact.
Having finally read the story, I will cast a vote for Alice In Wonderland.
Nominate/second The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
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Second the old man and the sea.
Sloth Love Chunk
Only a few days left!!! We start voting next Tuesday!
please go over the list and see what you've missed!!!
Bears, for example, only just remembered that they haven't nominated one of their favorites ever, namely,
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nominate:
James Malcolm Rymer - The String of Pearls/ SWEENEY TODD
Second
The old man and the sea
My Stephen King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...on-Stockerlone
Non-King collection
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...rlone-Non-King
Old Man seconded. Nominating Tarzan of the Apes.
May I suggest that the latest updated list be copied and pasted into the very first post for easy reference? Guess I'm getting old and lazy!!! LOL
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11/22/63 0
1984 14
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 6
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 13
Against the Day 0
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (and Through the Looking-Glass) 11
All Quiet on The Western Front 5
All the King’s Men 1
American Gods 2
American Psycho 1
American Tragedy, An 2
And Then There Were None 5
Andromeda Strain, The 6
Animal Farm 8
As I Lay Dying 1
Ball and the Cross, The 0
Battle Royale 2
Battlefield Earth 2
Bear Went Over the Mountain, The 0
Bel Canto 1
Bell Jar, The 0
Beloved 1
Ben-Hur 0
Black Water 1
Blechtrommel, Die 0
Bonfire of the Vanities, The 2
Brave New World 5
Breakfast of Champions 2
Broken Sword, The 0
Candide 4
Captain Blood: His Odyssey 1
Carrion Comfort 1
Casino Royale 0
Castle, The 3
Catch-22 7
Catcher in the Rye, The 8
Charlotte's Web 4
Children of Men 1
Clockwork Orange, A 6
Cloud Atlas 2
Contact 0
Count of Monte Cristo, The 4
Crime and Punishment 9
Da Vinci Code, The 3
Dark Tower, The 13
David Copperfield 4
Don Quixote 5
Dracula 8
Dragonriders of Pern 0
Dune 4
Earth Abides 0
East of Eden 3
Ender’s Game 3
Everything is Illuminated 1
Exorcist, The 7
Fahrenheit 451 14
Fight Club 4
Finnegan's Wake 0
First Deadly Sin, The 0
Foucault's Pendulum 0
Foundation 3
Frankenstein 5
Geek Love 1
Ghost Story 4
Giver, The 0
Glass Bead Game, The 3
Godfather, The 3
Gone with the Wind 4
Grandes Familles, Les 0
Good Omens 0
Grapes of Wrath, The 4
Great Expectations 4
Great Gatsby, The 3
Gulliver's Travels 7
Handmaid's Tale, The 2
Harry Potter 9
Haunting of Hill House, The 4
Heart-Shaped Box 0
History of a Town, The 1
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The 7
Hobbit, The 2
Hound of the Baskervilles, The 6
Hour of the Dragon, The 0
I Am Legend 7
Illusions 0
Inifinite Jest 0
In Search of Lost Time 0
Interview With The Vampire 4
Invisible Man 2
Island of Dr.Moreau, The 3
It 13
Ivanhoe 3
Jane Eyre 7
Jaws 2
Journey to the Center of the Earth 4
Jurassic Park 3
Karamazov Brothers, The 2
Kim 2
Kiss Me, Deadly 1
Kite Runner, The 0
Koko 1
Last of the Mohicans, The 2
Leatherstocking 1
Let the Right One In 0
Liaisons dangereuses, Les 0
Life of Pi 2
Little Prince, The 4
Little Women 2
Lolita 7
Lonesome Dove 2
Long Walk, The 9
Lord Of The Flies 14
Lord of the Rings 8
Lost World, The 4
Loved One, The 1
Lucky Jim 0
Man in the High Castle, The 2
Master and Margarita, The 2
Metro 2033 0
Middlesex 0
Midnight's Children 0
Misérables, Les 6
Moby Dick 5
Monk, The 1
Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The 0
Murder on the Orient Express 1
Musashi 1
Northanger Abbey 3
Neverending Story, The 3
NOS4A2 0
Notes From Underground 2
Octopus, The 0
Of Mice and Men 8
Old Man and the Sea, The 9
Old Yeller 1
On the Beach 2
On the Road 2
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 5
Only Forward 0
Our Man in Havana 2
Out of the Silent Planet 0
Outsiders, The 4
Pastime 0
Peau de Chagrin, La 0
Picture of Dorian Gray, The 2
Pilgrimage: The Book of the People 0
Plot Against America, The 0
Portnoy's Complaint 1
Prayer for the Dying, A 0
Pride and Prejudice 4
Princess Bride, The 2
Psycho 3
Quo Vadis 0
Rabbit Series 0
Ready Player One 0
Rebecca 2
Red Badge of Courage, The 2
Ringworld 0
Road, The 5
Robinson Crusoe 4
Room 0
Rosemary's Baby 5
Scarlet Letter, The 5
Series of Unfortunate Events, A 0
Shining, The 11
Siddhartha 2
Silence of the Lambs, The 7
Silmarillion, The 0
Simple Plan, A 0
Slaughterhouse-Five 5
Something Wicked This Way Comes 2
Song of Ice and Fire, A 6
Sound and the Fury, The 0
Stand, The 15
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 7
Stranger in a Strange Land 0
Stranger, The 3
Strangers on a Train 3
String of Pearls, The (aka Sweeney Todd) 0
Summer of Night 1
Sun Also Rises, The 3
Taiko 0
Tales of the City 0
Tarzan of the Apes 0
Terror, The 3
Thief of Always, The 2
Time Machine, The 3
To Kill a Mockingbird 18
Treasure Island 7
Trial, The 2
Tunnel in the Sky 0
Turn of the Screw, The 3
Underworld 0
Up the Down Staircase 1
Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, La 1
War and Peace 3
War of the Worlds 5
Water for Elephants 1
Watership Down 2
We 1
Weaveworld 3
Where the Red Fern Grows 2
White Fang 2
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 0
Wuthering Heights 4
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
only three days left for nominations and secondings!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please look at the list below. These novels still have zero secondings. Unless something changes, they have no chance to make it even to the first round of voting.
11/22/63
Against the Day
Ball and the Cross, The
Bear Went Over the Mountain, The
Bell Jar, The
Ben-Hur
Blechtrommel, Die
Broken Sword, The
Casino Royale
Contact
Dragonriders of Pern
Earth Abides
Finnegan's Wake
First Deadly Sin, The
Foucault's Pendulum
Giver, The
Grandes Familles, Les
Good Omens
Heart-Shaped Box
Hour of the Dragon, The
Illusions
Inifinite Jest
In Search of Lost Time
Kite Runner, The
Let the Right One In
Liaisons dangereuses, Les
Lucky Jim
Metro 2033
Middlesex
Midnight's Children
Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The
NOS4A2
Octopus, The
Only Forward
Out of the Silent Planet
Pastime
Peau de Chagrin, La
Pilgrimage: The Book of the People
Plot Against America, The
Prayer for the Dying, A
Quo Vadis
Rabbit Series
Ready Player One
Ringworld
Room
Series of Unfortunate Events, A
Silmarillion, The
Simple Plan, A
Sound and the Fury, The
Stranger in a Strange Land
String of Pearls, The (aka Sweeney Todd)
Taiko
Tales of the City
Tarzan of the Apes
Tunnel in the Sky
Underworld
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
These have 1 seconding each. With the number of novels already nominated, only these that have at least one more vote will get to the first round:
All the King’s Men
American Psycho
As I Lay Dying
Bel Canto
Beloved
Black Water
Captain Blood: His Odyssey
Carrion Comfort
Children of Men
Everything is Illuminated
Geek Love
History of a Town, The
Kiss Me, Deadly
Koko
Leatherstocking
Loved One, The
Monk, The
Murder on the Orient Express
Musashi
Old Yeller
Portnoy's Complaint
Summer of Night
Up the Down Staircase
Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, La
Water for Elephants
We
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe Room has not been seconded.
I second Room.
And I third Children of Men
awesome!!!
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not quite finished but its so good I'm nominating Blindness by Jose Saramago. Hopefully enough have read this it will receive a few seconds before the limit is up.
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Was the game Metro 2033 based on the book?
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Another vote for "Murder on the Orient Express" if I may
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
How many can I second or third?
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"