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Nominating Underworld by DeLillo.
Nominating The Octopus and seconding 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Crime and Punishment and The Scarlet Letter.
thank you Bruce!! whatever I've been lately nominating still sits there with zeros, I am happy you liked this one!Originally Posted by needfulthings
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Nominating: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart, winner of the first World Fantasy Award - a novel that beget the humanistic genre of science fiction (a thinking man's version of an apocalyptic tale). Very moving
Second: Battle Royale, The Hobbit, and The Handmaid's Tale.
bears nominate La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by Rabelais
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Seconding Gargantua et de Pantagruel
If you are going through hell - keep going
Portnoy's Complaint
Nominating A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan.
A lady always remembers her courtesies.
I nominate..."The First Deadly Sin", by Lawrence Saunders
Second, "Ghost Story", by Peter Straub. A truly scary book!!!
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63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Ghost Story was good, but I think I will nominate what I think of as Straub's best book, Koko - amazing!
And I will second the wonderfully gothic - The Monk
I'm nominating Bel Canto and voting for The Sun Also Rises.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
If we've done away with series in this competition, why is The Dark Tower still part of it? I can see why The Hobbit could be argued to stay, but DT in either facet, seventh book or series, seems to be unjust IMHO.
maybe there should be a separate top 100, top 100 greatest sequels or series?
Life is unjust, Stebbins.
Seriously, though, I've states my case a few times here as to why I considered TDT a long novel, and though not everyone supported me, I haven't heard a convincing argument to the contrary. If I disqualify TDT, then War and Peace should be disqualified from all similar lists, while it never is. (after all, it's a four-volume novel).
Why, of course, but not right now. Anything that has accepted here won't be eligible from that other contest.
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bears second Invisible Man
I assume it's a seconding
Is it the only novel you're seconding of the whole list?
Also, friends, attention please.
Please bear it in mind that you have to wait for someone to nominate at least two before you can nominate again. I have counted in only the nominations that conform to this rule. Thank you
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1984 13
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 5
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (and Through the Looking-Glass) 9
All Quiet on The Western Front 5
American Gods 0
American Psycho 1
American Tragedy, An 1
Andromeda Strain, The 5
Animal Farm 7
As I Lay Dying 1
Ball and the Cross, The 0
Battle Royale 1
Battlefield Earth 1
Bel Canto 0
Beloved 0
Ben-Hur 0
Black Water 1
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
Castle, The 3
Catch-22 5
Catcher in the Rye, The 7
Charlotte's Web 3
Children of Men 0
Clockwork Orange, A 5
Cloud Atlas 1
Count of Monte Cristo, The 3
Crime and Punishment 7
Da Vinci Code, The 2
Dark Tower, The 11
David Copperfield 3
Don Quixote 4
Dracula 7
Dragonriders of Pern 0
Dune 3
Earth Abides 0
East of Eden 2
Ender’s Game 2
Everything is Illuminated 1
Exorcist, The 6
Fahrenheit 451 13
Fight Club 4
Finnegan's Wake 0
First Deadly Sin, The 0
Foucault's Pendulum 0
Foundation 3
Frankenstein 4
Geek Love 0
Ghost Story 3
Giver, The 0
Glass Bead Game, The 3
Godfather, The 2
Gone with the Wind 3
Grandes Familles, Les 0
Great Expectations 3
Great Gatsby, The 2
Gulliver's Travels 6
Handmaid's Tale, The 1
Harry Potter 8
Haunting of Hill House, The 3
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The 6
Hobbit, The 1
I Am Legend 6
Interview With The Vampire 3
Invisible Man 0
It 12
Ivanhoe 2
Jane Eyre 6
Jaws 1
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3
Jurassic Park 3
Karamazov Brothers, The 2
Kim 2
Koko 0
Last of the Mohicans, The 1
Leatherstocking 1
Let the Right One In 0
Liaisons dangereuses, Les 0
Life of Pi 1
Little Prince, The 3
Little Women 1
Lolita 5
Lonesome Dove 1
Long Walk, The 8
Lord Of The Flies 13
Lord of the Rings 7
Lost World, The 3
Loved One, The 1
Lucky Jim 0
Man in the High Castle, The 2
Master and Margarita, The 1
Metro 2033 0
Middlesex 0
Misérables, Les 5
Moby Dick 3
Monk, The 1
Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The 0
Musashi 0
Northanger Abbey 3
NOS4A2 0
Notes From Underground 1
Octopus, The 0
Of Mice and Men 6
Old Man and the Sea, The 4
Old Yeller 0
On the Beach 1
On the Road 1
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 4
Only Forward 0
Out of the Silent Planet 0
Outsiders, The 4
Pilgrimage: The Book of the People 0
Portnoy's Complaint 1
Prayer for the Dying, A 0
Pride and Prejudice 3
Princess Bride, The 0
Psycho 2
Quo Vadis 0
Rabbit Series 0
Ready Player One 0
Rebecca 2
Red Badge of Courage, The 1
Ringworld 0
Road, The 5
Robinson Crusoe 3
Room 0
Rosemary's Baby 4
Scarlet Letter, The 4
Shining, The 10
Silence of the Lambs, The 6
Silmarillion, The 0
Simple Plan, A 0
Slaughterhouse-Five 5
Something Wicked This Way Comes 1
Song of Ice and Fire, A 6
Sound and the Fury, The 0
Stand, The 13
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 6
Stranger in a Strange Land 0
Stranger, The 3
Strangers on a Train 2
Sun Also Rises, The 3
Taiko 0
Terror, The 3
Thief of Always, The 2
To Kill a Mockingbird 17
Treasure Island 6
Trial, The 2
Turn of the Screw, The 3
Underworld 0
Vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel, La 1
War and Peace 2
War of the Worlds 4
Water for Elephants 0
Watership Down 1
We 1
Weaveworld 3
Where the Red Fern Grows 1
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 0
Wuthering Heights 3
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What would be just is to forget about doing away with series in this competition.Life is unjust, Stebbins.
Seriously, though, I've states my case a few times here as to why I considered TDT a long novel, and though not everyone supported me, I haven't heard a convincing argument to the contrary. If I disqualify TDT, then War and Peace should be disqualified from all similar lists, while it never is. (after all, it's a four-volume novel).
Why, of course, but not right now. Anything that has accepted here won't be eligible from that other contest.
Ralph Ellison, right? Not H.G. Wells.
ah! so, I've seconded the wrong novel!
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Did you? Well, I can't go out on a limb for that, but I will nominate The Time Machine.
I have got to re-read that. Cannot second it now because I intensely disliked it, but I might see differently after all this time.
Seconding Moby Dick, Watership Down.
I second The Time Machine, and nominate The Island of Dr.Moreau, which has always been my favorite Wells.
I wonder which of H.G.Wells novels will remain by the time the voting starts: only three from each author will be accepted, and if someone nominates The Invisible Man (as opposed to Invisible Man), he will have four.
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WOW, I just remembered a novel that I absolutely MUST nominate!!! Dear friends, please, please, make two more nominations!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nominating Against the Day.
I'll second American Gods.
While we're on the subject, is it unfairly biased that we are voting for books on a forum that is specifically for Dark Tower and Stephen King fans? Not saying we shouldn't, it was just a thought that crossed my mind and I'm curious about opinions.
As for series, here's my unsolicited opinion. Series such as LOTR, DT, Harry Potter, could be considered as one novel because there is one plot and the books must be read in order. But series where the books can be read out of order and understood independently (such as Dragonriders of Pern, Underworld, or Narnia) wouldn't be considered as one volume.
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