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2014 Third Quarter Long Read Elimination Poll

 
  20 votes, 12.3%

 
  17 votes, 10.4%

 
  15 votes, 9.2%

 
  13 votes, 8.0%

 
  12 votes, 7.4%

 
  11 votes, 6.7%

 
  10 votes, 6.1%

 
  9 votes, 5.5%

 
  9 votes, 5.5%

 
  5 votes, 3.1%

 
  5 votes, 3.1%

 
  5 votes, 3.1%

 
  5 votes, 3.1%

 
  4 votes, 2.5%

 
  4 votes, 2.5%

 
  4 votes, 2.5%

 
  3 votes, 1.8%

 
  3 votes, 1.8%

 
  2 votes, 1.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.2%

 
  2 votes, 1.2%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

 
  1 vote, 0.6%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%


Poll added by: Bob



This Poll is About

Authors:
John Irving, Ken Follett, V.S. Naipaul, Alexandre Dumas, T.H. White, George Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Elizabeth Gaskell, Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigrid Undset, John Dos Passos, John Galsworthy, Doris Lessing, Henry Fielding, Vasily Grossman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Vikram Seth, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand, Victor Hugo, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne

Books:
The Iliad David Copperfield The Canterbury Tales A House for Mr Biswas The Golden Notebook Don Quixote A Prayer for Owen Meany The Brothers Karamazov The Count of Monte Cristo The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #3) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame The Lord of the Rings Kristin Lavransdatter Bleak House The Three Musketeers Resurrection The Way We Live Now The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5) Wives and Daughters Atlas Shrugged The Glass Bead Game Great Expectations The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) Middlemarch A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3) Life and Fate U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money Anna Karenina The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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message 1: by Bob (last edited May 01, 2014 02:02PM) (new)

Bob Mod
Here is a link to the nominations page, all books, number of pages, and year of 1st publication are listed in message #158

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Edit: The top voted books move on to the next poll.


message 2: by David (new)

David Do we vote for what we want to keep or what we want to eliminate?


message 3: by Bob (new)

Bob Mod
David wrote: "Do we vote for what we want to keep or what we want to eliminate?"

Good question David, I plan on taking the books with higher vote count to the finial poll starting on May 16th.

Thanks for keeping me straight. Do you think it would cause a stir if I used the bottom of the list for the next round?


message 4: by David (new)

David Bob wrote: "Thanks for keeping me straight. Do you think it would cause a stir if I used the bottom of the list for the next round?"

I don't know. They are all good books. If you announce that intention now it might make for some interesting strategy.


message 5: by Cathy (new)

Cathy David wrote: "Bob wrote: "Thanks for keeping me straight. Do you think it would cause a stir if I used the bottom of the list for the next round?"

I don't know. They are all good books. If you announce that i..."


I think it is an excellent idea!


message 6: by MK (new)

MK Sooooo hard to pick!!!

I need to think awhile. How fun.


message 7: by MK (new)

MK Bob wrote: "... Thanks for keeping me straight. Do you think it would cause a stir if I used the bottom of the list for the next round? "


LOL !!!!!!


message 8: by MK (new)

MK David wrote: "Bob wrote: "Thanks for keeping me straight. Do you think it would cause a stir if I used the bottom of the list for the next round?"

I don't know. They are all good books. If you announce that intention now it might make for some interesting strategy. "



LOL some more !!!!!!!!!!!!


message 9: by Pink (new)

Pink Ahh well, I thought we were voting for books that we don't want to read, seeing as this is an elimination poll. Confused! No matter which books get cut, or go through to the next stage, I'm sure we'll still have enough to choose from. I might go and change my vote now though!


message 10: by MK (new)

MK Pink wrote: "Ahh well, I thought we were voting for books that we don't want to read, seeing as this is an elimination poll. Confused! No matter which books get cut, or go through to the next stage, I'm sure we..."

Oh boy, now I feel like a dork :p. I guess because I had been talking with Bob about it in PM I knew it was the top pollers that would be going on to the next round. I apologize for laughing, I didn't realize it wasn't clear.

Bob will be sending the winning (some number, not sure how many), on to the next/final round. The winner of the next one will be our 3rd quarter reads.


message 11: by Katy (new)

Katy Mod
So Bob, how many books will advance to the next level?


message 12: by Bob (new)

Bob Mod
Matt wrote: "Is the Lord of the Rings option for the entire trilogy, or just one book? I think Tolkien meant them to be one book, but the publisher refused."

Matt it is for the trilogy, the individual books do not meet page requirements for the Long Read.


message 13: by Bob (last edited May 16, 2014 08:21AM) (new)

Bob Mod
This poll is CLOSED. The top 10 books have moved on to the final poll.

Link to Top 10 Poll:

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Voting is open till May 31st.


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