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Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

jackbrown8786 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:44:52 GMT

Author: jackbrown8786

Posted: 03/01/2017 03:44

inb4 Storm of Swords is #1 of all time, A Tale of Two Cities doesn't make the top 100, and I rage (even though I like the game of thrones books).

EDIT: actually, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows might end up with the #1 spot to the embarrassment of us all (even though, again, I like HP)

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

mickilennial — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:50:48 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/22/2017 22:50

My taste is pretty much centered around traditional literature, myself (my favorite novel of all time is a tie between The Count of Monte Cristo and Ivanhoe)—with some experience with early 20th Century works and of course the pulp/sci-fi/adventure boom from 1930-1970.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Patman360 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 07:07:09 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 02/22/2017 12:07

Honestly anything goes, but for reference my most recent reads include On The Map by Simon Garfield, dealing with the development and history of mapmaking and cartography, Thirty One Nil by John Montague, about the worlds weakest footballing nations and their bid to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, the entire collection of Brian Azzarello's comic book series, 100 Bullets and one of my favourite novels, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, so make of that what you will, I'm pretty happy to give anything a shot though that may grip my attention.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

mickilennial — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:37:28 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/21/2017 18:37

I'd have to know what you enjoy out of prose to even give a recommendation from my pool.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Patman360 — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:50:22 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 02/21/2017 13:50

Hayden wrote:

Right now I'm reading The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor and William Carlos Williams' epic poem Paterson. Recommend both of them. Especially for long journeys. 😄

Also, if you're looking for something free and potentially terrible, I could send you and early ebook of what will hopefully be a finished version of my first novel 😨

Cheers for the recs! That sounds pretty cool actually, I'd love to have a read of it sometime if you're comfortable sharing it, could be the start of great things! 😎

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Hayden — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:51:13 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/21/2017 00:51

Patman360 wrote:

Bump, because this thread is probably as good a place as any, I'm going to be on the road a fair bit over the next few months so I'm loading up on (e)books and I'm just looking for recs. Throw anything my way!

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Patman360 — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:58:34 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 02/20/2017 23:58

Bump, because this thread is probably as good a place as any, I'm going to be on the road a fair bit over the next few months so I'm loading up on (e)books and I'm just looking for recs. Throw anything my way!

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:17:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/13/2015 04:17

Tap wrote:

where would the following books go, if anywhere?

Mindsploitation by Vernon Chapman

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Stockhausen On Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Hmmmmm gonna have to look into this. Not quite sure where any of these fit atm. Probably non-fiction

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Tap — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 02:00:08 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 10/12/2015 06:00

where would the following books go, if anywhere?

Mindsploitation by Vernon Chapman

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Stockhausen On Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:51:23 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/10/2015 07:51

Norman Bates wrote:

Don't agree. Plays are written to be performed onstage and involve much more than a writer and a reader. Poetry and novels involve a writer and a reader.

Plays classically are poetry, to be performed or sung, whilst novels and short stories are prose to be strictly read. I'm not sure we even disagree here.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:44:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/10/2015 07:44

... but we are going to have the poll for gay erotic fanfiction, right???

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Norman Bates — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 03:01:19 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 10/10/2015 07:01

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

If we split it, plays and poetry are much more connected than poetry and novels

Don't agree. Plays are written to be performed onstage and involve much more than a writer and a reader. Poetry and novels involve a writer and a reader.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Fri, 9 Oct 2015 21:55:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/10/2015 01:55

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

I think it's a bit more fun and higher stakes if we do one list for all literary works, from Homer to Tennessee Williams to Pablo Neruda to Kafka to Alan Moore to Homestuck. If we don't do it all in one though, I'd like everything separated, and believe we should rank poems and short stories by each, rather than collections; I might think Birches is the bee's knees, but not Mountain Interval, or Bartleby but not Piazza Tales, and that would affect the ranking. Also, how many people have read hundreds of poetry our short story collections?

agreed re: individual poems and short stories. Thinking that this first poll should just be novels. Gonna be up in a bit unless significant protest goes down before then

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Applerill — Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:48:49 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 10/09/2015 17:48

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Do you think we can sell BEA on It's Donkey Time, Keith?

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:31:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/09/2015 17:31

I think it's a bit more fun and higher stakes if we do one list for all literary works, from Homer to Tennessee Williams to Pablo Neruda to Kafka to Alan Moore to Homestuck. If we don't do it all in one though, I'd like everything separated, and believe we should rank poems and short stories by each, rather than collections; I might think Birches is the bee's knees, but not Mountain Interval, or Bartleby but not Piazza Tales, and that would affect the ranking. Also, how many people have read hundreds of poetry our short story collections?

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Fri, 9 Oct 2015 05:13:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/09/2015 09:13

Yeah Im more than fine with seperate polls (although short stories individually would be a... bit of an odd one to do).

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Muslim-Bigfoot — Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:24:12 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 10/08/2015 22:24

I think if we don't do it just for novels it'll be too much; I've been trying to come up with a list of top 100 novels past couple of days and it's really hard to organize it and omit some. We can then lump the other ones together if you want or do them separately but novels gotta be one poll. And no series like Lord of the Rings or In Search of Lost Time because that'd be cheating.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:16:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/08/2015 22:16

yeah I'm fairly torn myself. Gonna delay the poll a tad more so this can get some debate

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:15:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/08/2015 22:15

I'd argue poetry and plays should both be ranked individually and short stories should be by collection but I'm up for debate.

Re: Best Ever Books (preliminary discussion)

Anonymous — Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:12:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/08/2015 22:12

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

If we split it, plays and poetry are much more connected than poetry and novels

also agreed. Right now I'd say the separate polls should be

Novels
Poems
Plays
Graphic Novels/Comic Books
Short Stories

the question being should short stories be ranked separately or among novels? (also should we be ranking individual stories or collections/anthologies? Same question goes for poetry and plays)