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08-17-2008, 06:37 PM
Logos

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

.... I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members.

Cool idea Dark Muse, I've stickied the thread so it remains easy to find on first page of threads :)
08-17-2008, 06:40 PM
Dark Muse

Thanks a lot
08-17-2008, 06:54 PM
JBI

Can we do this another way? how about each person just names 10 favorites, and then we add them all to a word document, and see the occurrences of each name? That way, everyone can say what they want.
08-17-2008, 07:56 PM
Virgil

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

Though this will probably be quite the project, I thought it could be fun.

I thought it would be fun if Lit Net created its own Top 100 Book list, made up of nominations by lit net members.

What books do you think should be on a top 100 list?

Each member can have up to 5 nominations if you post less than 5, that is ok, but if you post more than 5, I will only count the first 5 posted.

I will try and keep track and count of all the posts, and tally it up to make a Top 100 list created by the lit net members.

What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Oh please let us pick more. ;)
08-17-2008, 08:15 PM
Etienne

Candide by Voltaire
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
Petersburg by Bely
Petersburg Tales by Gogol
Don Quixote by Cervantes

I don't think it should be much representative with only 5 books per member though... 10 or 20 would be more like it.

EDIT: Seems like I'm not the only one of this opinion, let it be 20 or 25!
08-17-2008, 08:28 PM
mayneverhave

Hamlet

The Brothers Karamazov

Ulysses

The Sound and the Fury

The Great Gatsby
08-17-2008, 08:31 PM
papayahed

I'm thinking we should have a larger list as well 10-20.

100 years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Junky
On the Road
08-17-2008, 08:35 PM
Jozanny

Can we list books other members list? Are you doing this like the most tallied 100 titles Dark?
08-17-2008, 08:37 PM
Kafka's Crow

King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Ulysses by James Joyce
Molloy by Samuel Beckett
08-17-2008, 08:39 PM
Leabhar

Crime and Punishment
The Grapes of Wrath
War and Peace
Growth of the Soil
Hamlet
08-17-2008, 08:42 PM
Virgil

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Originally Posted by Virgil

What a fabulous idea DM!!!! I wish I had thought of it. I do think that five is too small a number. I think you need to build up a significant quantity. I would have asked for twenty from everyone. But such is life. Here are my five, though it's really hard to pick only five.

The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick by Herman Meville
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Anna Karinina by Leo Tolstoy
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Oh please let us pick more. ;)

OMG, what have I done? I've forgotten Light In August by William Faulkner. DM, you must expand this to beyond five.
08-17-2008, 08:49 PM
Kafka's Crow

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Originally Posted by Virgil

OMG, what have I done? I've forgotten Light In August by William Faulkner. DM, you must expand this to beyond five.

And I had to keep out Hamlet, War and Peace, Madame Bovary, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Long Days Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lolita, Malone Dies, The Unnamable... The list would never end. I think it is better to keep it to five. This makes it more difficult which is half the fun!
08-17-2008, 08:54 PM
kilted exile

I also like keeping it to 5 per member. There are numerous posters around here who take pride in the elitist label when it comes to lit - here it is in its purest form
08-17-2008, 09:05 PM
andave_ya

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Originally Posted by bazarov

Brothers Karamazov
Don Quijote
War and Peace
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment

NICE!! I don't like Tolstoy so much as to put War and Peace in the first five, though, so I'll replace it with LOTR. Les Mis is next on my to-read list and I can't wait to get started on it. I just saw the movie so I'm sure I'll love it ;)
08-17-2008, 09:13 PM
Jozanny

Okay, I've done this before but

mine are

Madame Bovary, Flaubert
The Golden Bowl, James
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Brideshead Revisited, Waugh
and
Grendel, by Gardner

although this was extremely difficult, I left out Proust and some others for various reasons, and picked the most emotional of impact but not too contemporary.

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