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- Posted: 10/10/2015 02:04
- Post subject: Best Ever Novels [VOTING CLOSED]
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Here it is folks! First in a series of BEA literary polls. Gonna be using Hayden's formula so the longer your list the more points it's worth. Please list books from a series individually (e.g. if you give me just "Harry Potter" it's either not counting or I'll just count it as Sorcerer's Stone) No deadline yet, let's see how this goes. Number your lists if you wouldn't mind, and submit any way that tickles your fancy
questions/clarifications encouraged and graphic novels need not apply
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THINGS NOT ALLOWED
-Plays
-Poems/poetry anthologies
-Short stories/short story collections
-Epic poems
-Interactive fiction (hypertext fiction, Homestuck, etc.)
-Graphic novels/comic books
-Photography/art collections
-Books consisting most prominently of images rather than text (Be Here Now and the like)
-The Art of War
THINGS THAT ARE A-OK
-Novellas
-Ergodic literature (House of Leaves, etc.)
DEADLINE DECEMBER 15
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED
Thanks for everyone who participated 
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BrandonMiaow
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- #2
- Posted: 10/10/2015 03:10
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Have a bit of a question, should I decide to participate. The Once And Future King is considered one novel of four parts, but its just as often considered a series of four books. My heart tells me to go with the one novel way, mostly because it rattles my bones to consider ranking them by part, but it also feels a bit cheaty do it that way. What is the official take on this?
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- #3
- Posted: 10/10/2015 06:32
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| BrandonMiaow wrote: | | Have a bit of a question, should I decide to participate. The Once And Future King is considered one novel of four parts, but its just as often considered a series of four books. My heart tells me to go with the one novel way, mostly because it rattles my bones to consider ranking them by part, but it also feels a bit cheaty do it that way. What is the official take on this? |
based on extensive research 5 minutes of googling I think I'll say that it counts as 1
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Saoirse
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- #4
- Posted: 10/10/2015 07:40
- Post subject: Re: Best Ever Novels [POLL]
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| dividesbyzero wrote: | Here it is folks! First in a series of BEA literary polls. Gonna be using Hayden's formula so the longer your list the more points it's worth. No deadline yet, let's see how this goes. Number your lists if you wouldn't mind, and submit any way that tickles your fancy
questions/clarifications encouraged and graphic novels need not apply
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did you take a picture of me while I was reading tonight?
So I guess we have to choose single novels instead of lumping a series intogether? Anyways cool beans, cuz Prisoner of Azkaban was always my favorite.
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- #5
- Posted: 10/10/2015 07:45
- Post subject: Re: Best Ever Novels [POLL]
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| Saoirse wrote: | | So I guess we have to choose single novels instead of lumping a series intogether? Anyways cool beans, cuz Prisoner of Azkaban was always my favorite. |
Azkaban is def the best. Yeah individual rather than series. Also I very nearly captioned the picture "actual photo of Saoirse in (au)natural(e) habitat"
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Hayden
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- #6
- Posted: 10/10/2015 13:51
- Post subject: Re: Best Ever Novels [POLL]
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| dividesbyzero wrote: | | Azkaban is def the best. Yeah individual rather than series. Also I very nearly captioned the picture "actual photo of Saoirse in (au)natural(e) habitat" |
Azkaban is the best movie  Second best book in my opinion.
Anyway, best of luck DBZ I'll probably send in a list of 20 or so soon.
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Applerill
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Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago
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- #7
- Posted: 10/10/2015 14:33
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Okay, here's my tentative list. I'm really not very happy with these rules (and if you guys end up allowing Hunter S Thompson without me, I'll be even more ticked), but I tried to follow the regulations the best I could. Some were sorta vague as to whether they were abstract novels of anthologies, like Harmony Korine's A Crack-Up at the Race Riots. I'll add the authors to the list later, though yes, this does included Anne Rice, Anais Nin and several children's books.
1. Infinite Jest
2. The Bell Jar
3. Ulysses
4. The Picture of Dorian Grey
5. Antic Hay
6. The Illuminates Trilogy
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. American Psycho
9. Swann's Way
10. To The Lighthouse
11. The Pilgrim's Progress
12. Lolita
13. Richard Yates
14. Finnegan's Wake
15. Middlemarch
16. A Clockwork Orange
17. Flowers For Algernon
18. Through the Looking Glass
19. Crash
20. The Sound and the Fury
21. Blood Meridian
22. Cat's Cradle
23. Bridget Jones's Diary
24. The Screwtape Letters
25. Hard Times
26. Brave New World
27. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
28. Animal Farm
29. High Fidelity
30. The Color Purple
31. I Am Not Joey Pigza
32. Ham On Rye
33. Of Mice and Men
34. The Pale King
35. The Metamorphosis
36. S.
37. Breakfast at Tiffany's
38. Taipei
39. Holes
40. The First Bad Man
41. What Would Joey Do?
42. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
43. Gravity's Rainbow
44.House of Leaves
46. A Crack-Up at the Race Riots
47. Anthem
48. Great Expectations
49. Maniac Mcgee
50. Misery
51. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
52. Jane Eyre
53. The Scarlet Letter
54. The Melancholy of Resistance
55. The Road
56. Pink
57. The Catcher in the Rye
58. Tristram Shandy
59. Delta of Venus
60. The Island of Dr. Moreau
61. Naked Lunch
62. Barry Lyndon
63. FlashMan's Lady
64. The Corrections
65. Inherent Vice
66. The Man Who Sleeps
67. War of the Worlds
68. Death in Venice
69. A Confederacy of Dunces
70. Ms. Dalloway
71. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
72. House Rules
73. Irene Iddesleigh
74. Don Quixote
75. The Vampire Armand
76. Revolutionary Road
77. Hidden Talents
78. The Last Battle
79. White Noise
80. I, Robot
81. Trout Fishing in America
82. Forrest Gump
83. The Shining
84. It's Donkey Time
85. Carrie
86. Don Juan
87. JR
88. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
89. The Stranger
90. Things Not Seen
91. The Great Gatsby
92. Valley of the Dolls
93. The Invention of Hugo Cabaret
94. Gone Girl
95. Things Fall Apart
96. Snot Stew
97. Invisible Monsters
98. The Outsiders
99. The Help
100. War & War
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PanduArya
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Age: 25
Location: Jakarta
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- #8
- Posted: 10/10/2015 14:55
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Best Ever Novels: Ring
End of Poll.[/i]
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Muslim-Bigfoot
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Age: 33
Location: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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- #9
- Posted: 10/10/2015 15:03
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20. The Sound and the Fury
43. The Metamorphosis
46. The Sound and the Fury
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Repetition and Not a novel.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Location: Chicago
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- Posted: 10/10/2015 16:39
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| Muslim-Bigfoot wrote: | | Applerill wrote: |
20. The Sound and the Fury
43. The Metamorphosis
46. The Sound and the Fury
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Repetition and Not a novel. |
Fixed
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