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OK. So you may or may not know that in Books we’ve been compiling a list of nominations for the Barbelith Big Read Project, which is our version of the BBC Big Read Competition currently underway in the UK.
Here is the list of the 38 nominations, in no particular order.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut VOTES: 2
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Life's Lottery by Kim Newman
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Stand by Stephen King
The Swords of Corum by Michael Moorcock
Frisk by Dennis Cooper
Guide by Dennis Cooper
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller VOTES: 2
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin VOTES: 2
The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Secret History by Donna Tarrt
The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Man who was Thursday by GK Chesterton
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Once and Future King by T.H.White VOTES: 2
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Generation X by Douglas Coupland
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The idea is for you all to vote ONCE ONLY for a book from this list, so that we can compile the wondrous and definitive Top Ten Barbelith Big Read Books.
So. In order to stop the voting from descending into utter chaos, please use the following format to vote for your choice of book from this list:
name of book author of book current number of votes
So for example, my vote will be:
The Secret History by Donna Tarrt VOTES: 1
The next person to vote for this book would put VOTES: 2 and so on and so forth.
Please don’t copy and paste the whole list, because it’ll make the thread big, silly and boring. I’ll post up the current status list at various intervals. And just in case, if you’re not sure how to do the html to get bold and italics it’s all lovelily and simply explained in the wiki.
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