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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
Gender: Male
Age: 40
- #1
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:13
- Post subject: Builder Game: Greatest Books Of All Time
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Ripping off many that have come before.
If you don't know the rules for how builder games work, go here:
http://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/vi...mp;start=0
EDIT: Definition of valid entires
- Novel or Novella
- Graphic Novel
- Series of Works deemed to follow an uninterrupted storyline.
- Picture Books
- Biographies / Autobiographies
- Poetry Anthologies
- Play Anthologies
We will see if we can get 100.
EDIT (27/05): Not looking likely. 50 will be the max I think.
1984 +1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? +1
Fahrenheit 451 +1
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde +1
The War Of The Worlds +1
ELIMINATIONS
Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
River God - Wilbur Smith
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
The Book of Negroes - Lawrence Hill
Chasing The Dime - Michael Connelly
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Crash - J. G. Ballard
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Steve Larsson
Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
The Magus - John Fowles
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
Scott Pilgrim comic book series - Bryan Lee O'Malley
The Sea of Fertility - Yukio Mishima
Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
Born On the Fourth of July-Ron Kovic
Day Of The Triffids - John Wyndham
Fight Club - Chuck Palanuik
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen R. Donaldson
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Riders - Tim Winton
Solanin-Inio Asano
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Things They Carried-Tim O'Brien
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal
Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
Collected Shorter Plays - Samuel Beckett
Demonata series - Darren Shan
Earth X - Jim Krueger
Elmer - David McKee
Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Odyssey- Homer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rosie's Walk - Pat Hutchins
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Sleeping Dogs - Sonya Hartnett
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Last edited by videoheadcleaner on 06/02/2012 05:15; edited 5 times in total
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Facetious
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been 
- #2
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:17
- Post subject: Re: Builder Game: Greatest Novels Of All Time
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Haha, I was gonna create this myself, but somebody beat me to it, huh?
I think this should have been posted in the Games forum, with the other Builder Games. Doesn't matter, though, somebody will probably move it soon. Anyway,
1984 +2
The Catcher in the Rye +1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? +1
Fahrenheit 451 +1
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde +2
The War Of The Worlds +2
The Westing Game +1
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- #3
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:19
- Post subject: Re: Builder Game: Greatest Novels Of All Time
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? +1
1984 +2
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? +1
Fahrenheit 451 +1
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde +2
The War Of The Worlds +2
The Book Thief +1
The Catcher in the Rye +2
River God +1
Jessica +1
Animal Farm +1
The Westing Game +1
Last edited by Polythene Pam on 05/18/2012 08:21; edited 1 time in total
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albummaster
Janitor
Gender: Male
Location: Spain
Site Admin
- #4
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:21
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1984 - George Orwell +2
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis +1
Animal Farm +1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick +2
The Book Thief +1
The Catcher in the Rye +2
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas +1
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury+1
Iliad - Homer +1
Jessica +1
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo +1
River God +1
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson +2
The War Of The Worlds +2
The Westing Game +1
(crossed over)
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Facetious
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been
- #5
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:21
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Corrected:
1984 - George Orwell +2
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis +1
Animal Farm - George Orwell +1
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak +1
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger +2
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas +1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick +2
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury +1
Iliad - Homer +1
Jessica - Bryce Courtenay +1
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo +1
River God - Wilbur Smith +1
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson +2
The War Of The Worlds - H. G. Wells +2
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin +1
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- #6
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:21
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Stop!
Still needs more work eggman
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albummaster
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Location: Spain
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- #7
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:29
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Eggman's latest edit looks okay now...
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Facetious
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been
- #8
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:33
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Did I do it right?
Haha, great way to start a builder game, with three people voting at the same time!
Anyway, is this gonna be moved to "Games"?
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 Moved: 05/18/2012 08:34 by albummaster
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- #9
- Posted: 05/18/2012 08:53
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1984 - George Orwell +2
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis +1
Animal Farm - George Orwell +1
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak +1
Brave New World +1
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger +2
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas +1
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick +2
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury +1
Iliad - Homer +1
Jessica - Bryce Courtenay +1
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo +1
River God - Wilbur Smith +1
Scott Pilgrim comic book series +1 - does this count?
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson +2
The War Of The Worlds - H. G. Wells +2
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin +1
That's all I got 
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
Gender: Male
Age: 40
- #10
- Posted: 05/18/2012 09:23
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Scott Pilgrim comic book series +1 - does this count?
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Graphic novels can count since they are becoming more prolific.
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