The OLN HOF: Inagural Class Results; New Nomination Time!

[Lord Macbeth]

So our first round of Online Literature Network Hall of Fame voting has ended!

And to the surprise of absolutely no one...

William Shakespeare is the first inductee! :)

To the surprise of most...he is the ONLY inductee this round, as no one else got even close to 75% (Homer was second in the voitng with 58%.)

So...

THE ONLINE LITERATURE NETWORK HALL OF FAME:

Class of January 2011:

William Shakespeare




Moving on...it's time for the next round of nominations for February 2011 (wherein, hopefully, we can get in more than one nominee!) ;)

First, those retained on the ballot from last time, as they got at least 5% of the vote:

Homer
Dante
T.S. Eliot
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemmingway
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Sophocles
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Fydor Dostoyevksy
James Joyce
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Anton Chekov
Victor Hugo
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Geoffrey Chaucer
Michel de Montaigne
Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas Hardy
Emile Zola
Gustave Flaubert
H.G. Wells
Aeschylus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virgil
Albert Camus
Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell
Vladimir Nabokov
Virginia Woolf
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope

We have 36 returning (with 13 having been dropped for at least this round for falling under the 5% mark and Willy S. leaving the ballot for the greater graces of the illustriously-anagrammed OLN HOF) so that means 14 spots are open.

Smaller amount, so let's say two per person, to get a good variety.

Let the nominations begin, and as soon as we have enough for 50 again, we'll fill the ballot back up for the February 2011 Ballot!

[Lord Macbeth]

I nominate:

Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett

[Patrick_Bateman]

John Keats
Honore de Balzac

[Lord Macbeth]

Homer
Dante
T.S. Eliot
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemmingway
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Sophocles
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Fydor Dostoyevksy
James Joyce
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Anton Chekov
Victor Hugo
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Geoffrey Chaucer
Michel de Montaigne
Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas Hardy
Emile Zola
Gustave Flaubert
H.G. Wells
Aeschylus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virgil
Albert Camus
Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell
Vladimir Nabokov
Virginia Woolf
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope
Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett
John Keats
Honroe de Balzac

40 on the ballot, 10 more to be named...remember, 2 nominees per person...

[AlfredtheGreat]

Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker

[Lord Macbeth]

Homer
Dante
T.S. Eliot
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemmingway
Mark Twain
Alexander Pushkin
Sophocles
Christopher Marlowe
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Fydor Dostoyevksy
James Joyce
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Anton Chekov
Victor Hugo
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Geoffrey Chaucer
Michel de Montaigne
Miguel de Cervantes
Thomas Hardy
Emile Zola
Gustave Flaubert
H.G. Wells
Aeschylus
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Virgil
Albert Camus
Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell
Vladimir Nabokov
Virginia Woolf
Percy Shelley
Alexander Pope
Franz Kafka
Samuel Beckett
John Keats
Honroe de Balzac
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker

8 more slots available...

[kelby_lake]

Can we have playwrights?

[Alexander III]

Can we have playwrights?

If you had read the opening post you would have realized that, no, we clearly cannot have playwrights. I mean playwrights don't write literature...or rather serious literature for that matter...

[Seasider]

Virginia Woolf
Emil Zola

[B. Laumness]

Baudelaire
Leopardi
Proust
Racine
Milton
Wordsworth

Just a few giants that don't appear in the list...

[Lord Macbeth]

If you had read the opening post you would have realized that, no, we clearly cannot have playwrights. I mean playwrights don't write literature...or rather serious literature for that matter...

Since I nominated BECKETT and SHAKESPEARE made the Hall...

How do you say that?

[Lord Macbeth]

Can we have playwrights?

Contrary to what you've been told--yes, you can name playwrights. :)

Of course, the play shoudl probably have literary merit...so the Tom Stoppards and Samuel Becketts and Athur Millers? Yes.

The guys who made Rent? NO...that thing is one part teen-pandering and just cheap theatre and one part a HORRIBLE exploitation and ripoff of the great Giacomo Puccini and his famous opera La Boheme.

[Lord Macbeth]

Virginia Woolf
Emil Zola

Both of them are already on the ballot.

[mayneverhave]

If you had read the opening post you would have realized that, no, we clearly cannot have playwrights. I mean playwrights don't write literature...or rather serious literature for that matter...

Don't worry, I chuckled.

[Wilde woman]

Ovid
Edmund Spencer

[The Rainmaker]

Herman Melville
Thomas Mann

[OrphanPip]

The guys who made Rent? NO...that thing is one part teen-pandering and just cheap theatre and one part a HORRIBLE exploitation and ripoff of the great Giacomo Puccini and his famous opera La Boheme.

I'm not so crazy about Rent, but Larson did win the Pulitzer for it, it's not a ripoff it's a deliberate rewrite, and that's typical of a lot of postmodern work. I'm not sure how any off-broadway musical could be accused of teen-pandering... teenagers aren't exactly big theatre goers. Plus, La Boheme, was based on a pre-existing work as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es

As to the plot itself though, the Team America parody is kind of accurate.

[kelby_lake]

As for the playwright bashing, may I remind everyone that the only current inductee is a playwright? So there :P

I want F. Scott Fitzgerald on there and...I haven't thought of another...

[Seasider]

John Dryden
Lord Byron