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The Trial by Franz Kafka | 15 | 20.27% | |
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | 8 | 10.81% | |
Persuasion by Jane Austen | 4 | 5.41% | |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | 8 | 10.81% | |
The Picture (or Portrait) of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | 12 | 16.22% | |
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne | 11 | 14.86% | |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edward Abbott | 6 | 8.11% | |
Orlando by Virginia Woolf | 6 | 8.11% | |
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo | 4 | 5.41% | |
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10-24-2009, 05:03 PM | #17 |
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Thanks Brian!
Hey, maybe that's another element of the definition of a classic -- "available free for download from the public domain" |
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10-24-2009, 10:39 PM | #18 |
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10-25-2009, 09:59 AM | #19 |
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So, if the biggest vote takes the election, I guess that means that a minority is pretty much guaranteed to win? There should be runoffs till someone gets a majority, or the disenchanted might go out and burn bookstores...
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10-25-2009, 10:10 AM | #20 |
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10-25-2009, 10:40 AM | #21 |
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Thanks for those links, AO!
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Well, for the respondent who seemed confused -- the part about burning bookstores was a joke. But if the poll stops now, 10 people will have voted for The Trial, and 31 people for other books. That would make The Trial in the minority, right? Voting should continue till a book gets a majority, with the least-favored book or books eliminated each round and made to leave the island, with the remaining books participating in a new poll till a book finally wins a majority. Political conventions used to work that way.
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10-25-2009, 11:24 AM | #24 |
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Ok, you're running the show, but (a) it really wouldn't be that complicated to do it the way I indicated, and (b) the method you are using guarantees that the same tired small list of classics will be chosen; that it, is just about impossible for lesser-known classics to be read because multiple people won't think about voting for them in one round. It tends to mean that the poorest read people (of classics) will make the choice of what the group will read, if you think about it, because they won't have heard of many classics except for a few super-famous ones, and the well-read people will think of many classics but they will split their votes among them.
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10-25-2009, 11:42 AM | #25 |
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But I wouldn't have thought 'The Trial' would be the obvious choice from the list.
I didn't vote for it - my choice never wins sniff. |
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I can't agree. You forget we are an international group I have read well-known (in Denmark) Danish classics, but few, if none, English classics - though apparently well-known in English speaking countries. My favourite in this list is Orlando - certainly not super-famous. I'm sorry, but I'm not quite sure what your point is? Most of the books nominated got three nominations and were listed - it might be the same 'tired' list of classics, but one that was support for. It wasn't like a lot of books were left by the wayside after a bloody battle (so to speak).... |
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Secondly if you go back to the previous classic months you will see that while I think there were one or two duplicates each poll has had different and unique selections. BOb |
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