d'oh! OK - typing I can still do, but apparently I am not longer able to read. Sorry, Irvine. Sláinte! Ooops ... it's no longer Paddy's day. Cheers!
OK, here we go: First, my draft list (thanks Ombak) 1984 The Awakening Lord of the Flies Othello The Idiot Things Fall Apart Atlas Shrugged A Separate Peace Slaughterhouse Five Wuthering Heights Le Rouge et Le Noir (The Red and the Black) And for my last pick:
It has been over 36 hours since distrunner's pick so it appears that I'm up. For my final pick, I had a difficult time. I still wanted to pick up some Ibsen (probably The Wild Duck) among other things. In the end, I wanted to pick a work from my favorite sci-fi/fantasy writer (if the draft had gone to 20 rounds I'd probably have selected another work of his as well). This book is not so much fantasy as it is an interesting retelling of the story of Jesus: My list: 1. In Search of Lost Time- Proust 2. Anna Karenina- Tolstoy 3. The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky 4. Invisible Man- Ellison 5. Eugene Onegin- Pushkin 6. The Bell Jar- Plath 7. Journey to the End of the Night- Celine 8. Lost Illusions- Balzac 9. Pelleas and Melisande- Maeterlinck 10. Nausea- Sartre 11. The Gift- Nabokov 12. Behold the Man- Moorcock
Ok... the drafter after me went, so I guess I was supposed to go. Couldn't tell there for a bit. Anyway, for my last pick, I'm certainly not going to let this go. I can't believe no one thought it was worth drafting. Some, I think called her overrated... but she must have been doing something right to have lasted all these years. Anyway, for my final draft pick, my 12th overall, definitely worth that place, I choose.... Pride and Prejudice Now, someone said that we had an Austen drafted earlier... pre 8th round... but I absolutely can not find it. If it's there, and I'm just blind or a bad searcher... then I'll change it... but that's #12. So that makes my complete draft like this: 1. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes 2. The Oedipus Cycle, Sophocles 3. The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio 4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 5. Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare 6. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein 7. Watership Down by Richard Adams 8. The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson 9. The Marrow of Tradition - Charles W. Chesnutt 10. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 11. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson 12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Oops. Guess my turn was last night. Here's my 12th and final pick. Can it be that this is really still available? If I've overlooked where someone grabbed it, I'll repick later. That makes the winning library: 1) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain 2) Ulysses - Joyce 3) The Aeneid - Virgil 4) Howl - Ginsberg 5) Metamophoses - Ovid 6) The Satanic Verses - Rushdie 7) Alice in Wonderland - Carroll 8) Perfume - Suskind 9) The Tempest - Shakespeare 10) The Arrivants - Brathwaite 11) Beloved - Morrison 12) Song of Myself - Whitman What's the payout for first place?
For my last pick, a book that is neither 'important' nor influential; it just breaks my heart: Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb. A beautiful, tragic story about an over-the-hill Country and Western musician trying to find love while struggling to keep his career alive. bigredfutbol's list: 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh 2. The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner 3. As I Lay Dying--William Faulkner 4. Winesburg, Ohio--Sherwood Anderson 5. The Beautiful and the Damned--F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. Dead Souls--Nikolai Gogol 7. Double Indemnity--James Cain 8. A Fan's Notes--Frederick Exley 9. Hunger--Knut Hamsun 10. Wait Until Spring, Bandini--John Fante 11. The Scarlet Letter--Nathaniel Hawthorne 12. Crazy Heart--Thomas Cobb
Ah, figured that was odd. What the hell was I thinking taking Howl in the 4th round with Leaves of Grass still available? Maybe a draft list would have been a good idea after all... OK, so I'll switch to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Final list: 1) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain 2) Ulysses - Joyce 3) The Aeneid - Virgil 4) Howl - Ginsberg 5) Metamophoses - Ovid 6) The Satanic Verses - Rushdie 7) Alice in Wonderland - Carroll 8) Perfume - Suskind 9) The Tempest - Shakespeare 10) The Arrivants - Brathwaite 11) Beloved - Morrison 12) The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
I swear I thought somebody took Emma, but I couldn't spot it either, so I may have just been drunk. That said, I'm off for my 4 hours of sleep before dealing with 9th graders.
The pride from knowing that sixteen of your fellow compatriots on an Internet message board felt that your taste in literature was so refined that an entire civilization could be built on it.
Alright, there were people out of order, but in all events, the last selection was at 7:40 last night, which means at a minimum, Michael K.'s clock has expired, and Yankhibee is halway through his clock. After him is Minorthreat who abandoned us for the album draft and can be skipped, and then Ombak cleans. Hurry up folks, so we can post a wrap up and vote.
First Snow on Fuji, Yasunari Kawabata my picks: 1 Notes From the Underground 2 The Stranger 3 Gulliver's Travels 4 Old Yeller 5 Trainspotting 6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 7 Raintree County 8 The Tale of Genji 9 Ulster Cycle 10 Red Badge of Courage 11 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 12 First Snow on Fuji
My last pick is The Tower by W.B. Yeats. List: Henry IV, William Shakespeare Hyperion, John Keats The Man with the Blue Guitar, Wallace Stevens Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot Housekeeping, Marilyn Robinson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe Dubliners, James Joyce The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer North of Boston, Robert Frost The Tower, W.B. Yeats
And my final pick is: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson My list: Madame Bovary, Flaubert One Thousand and One Nights Grimm Fairy Tales The Sons, Kafka King Lear, Shakespeare Os Lusíadas, Camões Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor L'Exil et le Royaume, Camus Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness, Oe Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson Attached is the current draft list, zipped. If anyone wants a copy of it unzipped, please e-mail me, via bigsoccer and I'll send it to you.
As soon as Michael K. posts his final selection, we will be done and I will post a recap and voting procedure. I would also like a moderator to make a book draft voting poll thread open to the public (the poll needs to have more choices than allowed to a non-moderator).
The most I can do is 16. Unless there's some magic I don't know about. We should also start a new thread for post-draft discussion. I'm closing this one as soon as Michael K. picks.
Sorry for being late - my two-day, multistate road odyssey ended about an hour and a half ago. Don't want to hold up the thread any longer... So here's my twelfth and final - The Wapshot Chronicles, by John Cheever. My list: Faust - Goethe War and Peace - Tolstoy The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas The Man Without Qualities - Musil The Magic Mountain - Mann A Hero of our Time - Lermontov The Counterfeiters - Gide Hedda Gabler - Ibsen Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain-Fournier Montauk - Frisch The Rubaiyyat - Khayyam The Wapshot Chronicles - Cheever
The draft is now complete. Please go to this thread to read the voting procedures, and post any further discussion you would like. Thank you. Moderators - please close this thread. Thank you.