Happy Ent Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Just save the thread. Theres your data.Ah, but that’s raw data, not the spreadsheet document or normalised text file (or whatever) that Wastrel will produce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turinqui-Calima Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 My short list (I don't read a lot of fantasy and didn't want to fill it up with ok stuff):Silmarillion - TolkeinThe Long Ships - Frans G. BengtssonWatership Down - R. AdamsA song of ice and fire - GRRMLord of the Rings - TolkeinDiscworld Series - PratchettHitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - D. AdamsDune - HerbertThe Winter King - CornwellLast light of the Sun - KayThe Darkness that comes before - BakkerThe Shining - King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 I:Shalimar the Clown - Salman RushdieCat's Cradle - Kurt VonnegutThe Dwarf - Per Lagerkvist1984 - George OrwellII:Watchmen - Alan MooreHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas AdamsAfter Dark - Haruki MurakamiMagister Ludi - Herman HesseA Clash of Kings - GRRMA Clockwork Orange - Anthony BurgessPicture of Dorian Grey - Oscar WildeLord of the Rings - JRRTIII:Satanic Verses - Salman RushdieNever Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Smithsonian Institution - Gore VidalA Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia MarquezDance, Dance, Dance - Haruki MurakamiCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald DahlBrave New World - Alduous HuxleyJonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - Susanna Clarke(I know Ishiguro doesn't consider himself genre, but I've seen Atwood on the list as well, so I'm putting him up there) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Ah, but that's raw data, not the spreadsheet document or normalised text file (or whatever) that Wastrel will produce.But i'm assuming the person specific data is exactly whats getting lost in the carryover, since as best I recollect he only needs a tally of authors and books. Thus you're either asking him to do twice the work, or you could just save the thread - the only existing format of the data - for use if ever the whim strikes you or anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facedanser Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Here are mine:Dune Series (the original 6 books) - Frank HerbertLord of the Rings - TolkienSong of Fire and Ice - GRR MartinThe Earthsea Trilogy - LeGuinChronicles of Amber - ZelaznyLord of Light- ZelaznyElric Series - MoorcockThomas Covenant the Unbeliever (1st trilogy) DonaldsonAt the Mountains of Madness - LovecraftThe Stand - Stephen KingSlaughterhouse Five - VonnegutGardens of the Moon - Steven EricksonChronicles of Xanth - Piers AnthonyThe Fionavar Tapestry - Guy Gavriel KayWatchmen - Alan MooreBrave New World - HuxleyShadow of the Torturer- Gene WolfeThe Metamorphisis - KafkaRingworld - Larry NivenInferno - Dante AlligheriIt will be interesting to see the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facedanser Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Ooh. I forgot about The Road. Great choice! The most beautiful unbelievably depressing book ever written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx4allthefish Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 The Orphan's Tales duology - Catherynne M ValenteOtherland - Tad WilliamsThe Scar – China MiévilleThe Drowned World – J. G. BallardAssassin Trilogy – Robin HobbThe Myth series – Robert AsprinThe Company – K. J. ParkerThe Tooth Fairy – Graham JoyceUnLunDun - China MiévilleCryptonomicon - Neal StephensonThe Disc World series – Terry PratchettThe Crystal World – J. G. BallardGood Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry PratchettASoIaF- G. MartinLoTR – J. R. R. TolkienSewer, Gas, Electric – Matt RuffThe Penultimate Truth – Philip K. DickThe Book Of The New Sun – Gene WolfeThe Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott LynchThe Sundering – Jacqueline Carey---Edited: I saw someone combine most of T. Pratchett's works as 'The Disc World series' - and I followed that example ... I hope this is allowed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paran Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Memories of Ice - Steven EriksonThe Thousandfold Thought - R Scott BakkerPerdido Street Station - China MeivilleThe Sarantine Mosaic - GGKLord of the Rings - J R R TolkeinNever Let Me Go - Kazuo IshiguroBlade of Tyshalle - StoverThe Scar - MeivilleAmerican Gods - Neil GaimanDeclare - Tim PowersThe Anubis Gates - Tim PowersChronicles of Amber - Roger ZelazneyFarseer Trilogy - Robin HobbStorm of Swords - GRRMDiscworld - Terry PratchettCovenant chonicles - DonaldsonLong Price Quartet - Daniel AbrahamBerserk - Kentarō MiuraMonarchies of God - Paul KearneyBlack Company - Glen CookUggh... so much left off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shryke Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 But i'm assuming the person specific data is exactly whats getting lost in the carryover, since as best I recollect he only needs a tally of authors and books. Thus you're either asking him to do twice the work, or you could just save the thread - the only existing format of the data - for use if ever the whim strikes you or anyone else.Bah, someone start creating a database already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaerv Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. TolkienDiscworld -Series - Terry Prattchett Illiad - HomerThe Second Apocalypse - Series - R.Scott Bakker A Song of Ice and Fire - Series - G.R.R. Martin A Canticle for Leibowitz – W.M. Miller Jr.War with the Newts - Karel Capek The Silmarillion - J.R.R. TolkienThe Last Man - Mary Shelley Dracula - Bram Stoker*Faust - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe** Brave New World - Aldous Huxley A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia MarquezSarantine Mosaic – duology - G. G. KayBest Served Cold - Joe AbercrombieLiveship Traders – Series - Robin HobbGodless World – Series – Brian RuckleyChalion - Series - Lois McMaster-BujoldSandman - Series - Neil GaimanDer Untergang der Stadt Passau - Carl Amery (not translated into Englisg afaik)* Dracula was very live-changing for me because I read it for the first time when I was 8 years old. Afterwards, I developed an anxiety neurosis. I could not leave my room at night. I collected silver coins and crucifixes, stole holy water from our village's church and constantly tried to persuade my mother to put more garlic into our food. My parents were quite concerned about my mental stability for some months… ** lots of Magic in it, witches, the devil – definitely fantasy! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stego Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 So this project is dead?For the record: I do not hate to say I told you so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Hat Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 No, I believe Wastrel's coming back tomorrow to finish it. It's only AFTER that that he's contemplating leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Robert of Dobolina Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 If for any reason Wastrel doesn't come back to finish it, I'm about halfway through tabulating the results myself, in part because I've found it genuinely interesting and educational -- there's clearly some good speculative fiction out there that I've been missing out on -- and in part because I was disquieted by his parting crack about how he could probably get away with just making up the results. Of course, I have no idea at all how he intended his three-tiered voting system to work, but I have an approach to it that I think probably does get at what he said he wanted to get at. But I'd much, much rather see him finish it himself before offering my own half-baked take on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liadin Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I:Shalimar the Clown - Salman RushdieInteresting choice. I agree with you that it was an excellent book, but fantasy? Of course a couple of my nominees' place in the genre is questionable as well, but I don't recall much in the way of speculative elements in the book--unless you take the plane scene and that bit of telepathy literally (which is fair enough I suppose, although then would Jane Eyre be genre because she has that moment of telepathy?).At any rate, you have good taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wastrel Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 If for any reason Wastrel doesn't come back to finish it, I'm about halfway through tabulating the results myself, in part because I've found it genuinely interesting and educational -- there's clearly some good speculative fiction out there that I've been missing out on -- and in part because I was disquieted by his parting crack about how he could probably get away with just making up the results. Of course, I have no idea at all how he intended his three-tiered voting system to work, but I have an approach to it that I think probably does get at what he said he wanted to get at. But I'd much, much rather see him finish it himself before offering my own half-baked take on it.I'm here, I'm here. I've got nearly all the votes tabulated.My plan is to leave this for the rest of the day, and then unsticky it and put a "vote now or never" thing in the title, giving people a few more days to rush to add any additional votes (10-15 more and we'll have 100, which would be nice).And no, I'm not going to just make up the results. That was a joke.[And THEN I'm going to go on to another, similar, project: aggregating 'top 100' lists. I reason that, having now got a big list of 550-or-so novels entered, typing in the rankings others have given them shouldn't be too hard. But I'll make another thread for that.I may whine, but I do finish things in the end.]Anyway: VOTE NOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Interesting choice. I agree with you that it was an excellent book, but fantasy? Of course a couple of my nominees' place in the genre is questionable as well, but I don't recall much in the way of speculative elements in the book--unless you take the plane scene and that bit of telepathy literally (which is fair enough I suppose, although then would Jane Eyre be genre because she has that moment of telepathy?).At any rate, you have good taste.Oh, I was hoping nobody would call me on that one, I was struggling with wether it would fit or not, I excluded both Life of Pi and Dante's Inferno because I just wasn't sure, but I love Rushdie and Shalimar for me is just the greatest thing that man has created, I hoped it would fit as both Midnight's Children had been listed and Satanic Verses (I do see how the both of them are a lot more 'speculative' though).Also Spoiler The priest who comes to live in the neighboring village (made of metal, cannot remember his name, shame on me) , presents some pretty otherworldy characteristics. I also thought of all the ghosts throughout the book, but those could easily have been part of insanity. I could change it if it not too late and deemed unfit.At any rate, you have good taste.Thank you. Although I know I have not even half the repertoire that most boarders here have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liadin Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Also Spoiler The priest who comes to live in the neighboring village (made of metal, cannot remember his name, shame on me) , presents some pretty otherworldy characteristics. I also thought of all the ghosts throughout the book, but those could easily have been part of insanity. Ha, I'd forgotten that. Also after posting I remembered the prison break--it seems like there was flying involved.Both of those seem like more objectively speculative elements, while the other two I listed seemed to me to be part of her insanity.Well, if I can get away with House of the Spirits, you can get away with Shalimar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I may whine, but I do finish things in the end.]Anyway: VOTE NOW.Lol, cheers. I'm glad you are back. My sister did make a list, though I think it might have gotten lost since last week. I'll see if I can find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vrana Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Ha, I'd forgotten that. Also after posting I remembered the prison break--it seems like there was flying involved.Both of those seem like more objectively speculative elements, while the other two I listed seemed to me to be part of her insanity.Well, if I can get away with House of the Spirits, you can get away with Shalimar.Right, I remember.Anyway I haven't seen anyone else list it so I'm not sure whether it will make the list in the end either way, hopefully, no harm done.Had to look up House of the Spirits just because you mentioned it. Now I know what I'll be reading next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vethnar Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 This is hard, but I'll try:The Book of the New Sun - Gene WolfeFicciones - Jorge Luis BorgesOrphan's Tales - Catherynne ValenteOne Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia MarquesThe Book of the Long Sun - Gene WolfeThe Book of the Short Sun - Gene WolfeSilmarillion - JRR TolkienGormenghast - Mervy PeakeThe Story of Your Life and Others - Ted ChiangInvisible Cities - Italo CalvinoEl Aleph - Jorge Luis BorgesSoldier series (Soldier of the Mist, Soldier of Arete, Soldier of Sidon) - Gene WolfeThe Scar - China MievilleA Song of Ice and Fire - George RR MartinThe Lord of the Rings - JRR TolkienThe Dispossessed - Ursula K Le GuinThe Sarantine Mosaic - Guy Gavriel KayThrough the Looking-Glass - Lewis CarrolThe King Must Die & The Bull from the Sea - Mary RenaultThree Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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