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All-Time Writers Draft II
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Since the other thread is a bit controversial and slow, I thought we should switch over.
It'll be 10 participants but maybe we'll extend to 12 if there are couple more who want in before the end of round 1.
10 rounds total, 8 hrs to pick for first round and 7 hrs for the remaining rounds. PM your picks in advance, there shouldn't be any reason to get skipped.
Any category that falls under literature can be selected. Your pick can be a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, journalist etc, provided their work is written. Posters who declared for the other draft get first dibs.
Draft Order/PHP:
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RND PICK OWNER SELECTION
1 1 Snoop Cat William Shakespeare
1 2 MasterDurant24 Leo Tolstoy
1 3 boozehound Marcel Proust
1 4 Fatal Charles Dickens
1 5 Timmy D Aristotle
1 6 Jasi Dostoevsky
1 7 iamgine Isaac Newton
1 8 Fuhqueque George Orwell
1 9 raiderfan19 Homer
1 10 Jailblazers7 James Joyce
1 11 Lebowsky Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 1 Lebowsky Franz Kafka
2 2 Jailblazers7 Vladimir Nabokov
2 3 raiderfan19 J.R.R. Tolkien
2 4 Fuhqueque Geoffrey Chaucer
2 5 iamgine Lao Tzu
2 6 Jasi Dante Alighieri
2 7 Timmy D Edgar Allan Poe
2 8 fatal Cervantes
2 9 boozehound Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2 10 MasterDurant24 William Faulkner
2 11 Snoop Cat Mark Twain
3 1 Snoop Cat Victor Hugo
3 2 MasterDurant24 Aesop
3 3 boozehound Oscar Wilde
3 4 Fatal John Milton
3 5 Timmy D Sophocles
3 6 Jasi Jane Austen
3 7 iamgine Plato
3 8 Fuhqueque Nietzsche
3 9 raiderfan19 Ernest Hemingway
3 10 Jailblazers7 Walt Whitman
3 11 Lebowsky Voltaire
4 1 Lebowsky Jorge Luis Borges
4 2 Jailblazers7 Samuel Beckett
4 3 raiderfan19 Alexander Dumas
4 4 Fuhqueque Anton Chekhov
4 5 iamgine Adam Smith
4 6 Jasi John Steinbeck
4 7 Timmy D Herman Melville
4 8 fatal Virgil
4 9 boozehound Albert Camus
4 10 MasterDurant24 Jin Yong
4 11 Snoop Cat St Paul
5 1 Snoop Cat William Golding
5 2 MasterDurant24 Rabindrath Tagore
5 3 boozehound Joseph Conrad
5 4 Fatal Thomas Mann
5 5 Timmy D Samuel Coleridge
5 6 Jasi TS Eliot
5 7 iamgine Rene Descartes
5 8 Fuhqueque Euripides
5 9 raiderfan19 Moses
5 10 Jailblazers7 James Baldwin
5 11 Lebowsky WB Yeats
6 1 Lebowsky Benito Perez Galdos
6 2 Jailblazers7 Julio Cortazar
6 3 raiderfan19 Robert Louis Stevenson
6 4 Fuhqueque Ralph Waldo Emerson
6 5 iamgine Charles Darwin
6 6 Jasi Aleksandr Pushkin
6 7 Timmy D Isaac Asimov
6 8 fatal John Keats
6 9 boozehound Venedict Yerofeyev
6 10 MasterDurant24 Albert Einstein
6 11 Snoop Cat Galileo Galilei
7 1 Snoop Cat Stephen King
7 2 MasterDurant24 John Hersey
7 3 boozehound Mikhail Bulgakov
7 4 Fatal Du Fu
7 5 Timmy D Wu Cheng'en
7 6 Jasi Pablo Neruda
7 7 iamgine Jean-Jacques Rousseau
7 8 Fuhqueque Aldous Huxley
7 9 raiderfan19 Ayn Rand
7 10 Jailblazers7 Haruki Murakami
7 11 Lebowsky Sir Arthur Conyan Doyle
8 1 Lebowsky Yasunari Kawabata
8 2 Jailblazers7 Tennessee Williams
8 3 raiderfan19 Machiavelli
8 4 Fuhqueque Fernando Pessoa
8 5 iamgine Saint Augustine
8 6 Jasi Balzac
8 7 Timmy D Aristophanes
8 8 fatal Jonathan Swift
8 9 boozehound V.S. Naipaul
8 10 MasterDurant24 Alan Moore
8 11 Snoop Cat St. Benedict
9 1 Snoop Cat Confucius
9 2 MasterDurant24 Thomas Jefferson
9 3 boozehound Ben Okri
9 4 Fatal Gustave Flaubert
9 5 Timmy D Arthur C. Clarke
9 6 Jasi Aeschylus
9 7 iamgine Sigmund Freud
9 8 Fuhqueque PG Wodehouse
9 9 raiderfan19 Jules Verne
9 10 Jailblazers7 Philip Roth
9 11 Lebowsky Philip K Dick
10 1 Lebowsky Herodotus of Halicarnassus
10 2 Jailblazers7 CS Lewis
10 3 raiderfan19 JK Rowling
10 4 Fuhqueque Umberto Eco
10 5 iamgine Karl Marx
10 6 Jasi David Grossman
10 7 Timmy D Michael Chrichton
10 8 fatal F Scott Fitzgerald
10 9 boozehound Cormac McCarthy
10 10 MasterDurant24 Eugene O Neill
10 11 Snoop Cat
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Things to consider when picking:
- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)
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[QUOTE=brooks_thompson]J.K. Rowling[/QUOTE]
sweet.:cheers:
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So this here is the one?
Cause I'll be in if it is.
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This is going to be a difficult draft to judge.
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what's the criteria for judging?
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Thanks Fatal, I'm surely in.
(Thanks also to those who invited me to start the draft thread; I fell asleep before I saw those posts - and that's also the reason why I don't start draft threads: I think it's difficult to be the commish from Europe due to the different time zones)
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[QUOTE=Snoop_Cat]what's the criteria for judging?[/QUOTE]
some things to consider...
- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)
- maybe something for popularity of their work as well?
if other things come to mind, let me know and we can get down to four or five concrete categories
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[QUOTE=Fatal9]some things to consider...
- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)
if other things come to mind, let me know and we can get down to four or five concrete categories[/QUOTE]
Im in.
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i'm out. will be out of town for a week starting thursday, no certain internet access.
someone better have picked charles dickens by the time i get back
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[QUOTE=Jailblazers7]I stilll want in.[/QUOTE]
you been on the list..?..
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Count me in if you please.
If I don't win I'm going to burn all of my books.
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[QUOTE=ZeN]you been on the list..?..[/QUOTE]
Just confirming because Fatal pmed me.
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come on brahs, need two more active posters. want to get this rolling today. if no more new signups by the time I come back from class, we'll just go with 8 drafters (if others want to join they still can before end of round 1).
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sure, ill do it. should be fun to see y'all reading interests.
though I hope it doesnt become a dumb pissing contest.
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Looking forward to this draft and I will be taking notes. I'm too much out of my league on this to participate though.
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how has Zen, Rufus or Vap not got into this yet
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[QUOTE=Fatal9]come on brahs, need two more active posters. want to get this rolling today. if no more new signups by the time I come back from class, we'll just go with 8 drafters (if others want to join they still can before end of round 1).[/QUOTE]
/sheepishly points out my volunteering atop this page
Don't be put off by the post count, I'm on ISH most days, I just browse vastly more than I post
Let me participate I don't want to have to burn all my books
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[QUOTE=Fuhqueue]/sheepishly points out my volunteering atop this page
Don't be put off by the post count, I'm on ISH most days, I just browse vastly more than I post
Let me participate I don't want to have to burn all my books[/QUOTE]
alright, if you say you're active. I'll be watching you [IMG]http://assets.fallingandlaughing.com/images/shiftyEyes.gif[/IMG] :D
edit: I'll make the list at exactly 21:24:00 UTC so you know it was truly random
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Draft Order:
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Snoop is up, PHP coming...
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- influence on literature and society
- overall body of work
- magnus opus (greatness of their greatest work)
- critical acclaim
- variety in your overall "team" (don't just keep picking Victorian novelists for example while ignoring other forms of literature and other genres, diversity matters)
A bit of a stereotypical pick here, but I'll take William Shakespeare.
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Is it too late to get in this?
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[QUOTE=Snoop_Cat]A bit of a stereotypical pick here, but I'll take William Shakespeare.[/QUOTE]
Probably the only no brainer consensus pick in this draft :D
sawyersauce is next...
[QUOTE=MasterDurant24]Is it too late to get in this?[/QUOTE]
you're on deck if someone else is dropped.
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I've got a pick ready, but I'm happy to give up my spot to MasterDurant. So I won't make it.
I've got another draft idea I want to put forward after the movie draft is done, and I'd rather devote my ISH-time to that. Nice idea though and glad to see you got it off the ground.
If you're (Fatal) happy to let MD take over for me, he can pick right now.
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^ alright, MasterDurant is up.
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EDIT: Nothing to see here.
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[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg[/IMG]
Leo Tolstoy is widely considered one of, if not the, best novelists of all time. He serves as an inspiration to nonviolent peacemakers like Gahndi and Martin Luther King Jr, and his War and Peace book is widely considered one of the best books of all time.
By the way, that picture is one of the first color photographs, taken in 1908.
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I thought you told me to edit my orginal post.
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Bump.
Lets get this thing rollin folks it should be a very interesting one.
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Booze is up...or maybe skipped at this point.
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disappointed in the lack of description in the choices, fellows. sure, "what hasn't been said", but i had planned on discussing that i've read, that i've not, style, tone, all that stuff.
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i recently read a great article on tolstoy, his estate, his pacifistic tendencies (which i'm not a fan of personally), and connection with gandhi, and his family.
by peter t. white. national geographic vol. 169, no. 6. june 1986.
i couldn't find a link on the web, but i figure it would be pretty easy to find for any academic search engine for those still at college/university. it's a great article. i was lucky to stumble upon a stack of old magazines.
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Yes, apparently Booze has a pending pick now, and the commish himself (Fatal) is on the clock.
And yes, let's get this thing going and trigger some debate. Motivate your picks dudes.
Btw, imo the 1st pick couldn't be but MJ... er, Shakespeare, so no negative stereotypes here.
Tolstoj may have come a bit early though.
[COLOR="White"](That's what she said)[/COLOR]
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so, third pick huh? Ill make it here in a second. Trying to decide between several worthy choices IMO.
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[QUOTE=Jasi]Yes, apparently Booze has a pending pick now, and the commish himself (Fatal) is on the clock.
And yes, let's get this thing going and trigger some debate. Motivate your picks dudes.
Btw, imo the 1st pick couldn't be but MJ... er, Shakespeare, so no negative stereotypes here.
Tolstoj may have come a bit early though.
[COLOR="White"](That's what she said)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
you guys ever buy into the shakespeare debates that the works were written as a collective or by other person(s)?
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[QUOTE=boozehound]so, third pick huh? Ill make it here in a second. Trying to decide between several worthy choices IMO.[/QUOTE]
man this is tough. trying to decide which authors will drop...... Ill make my pick within the hour, gotta work on some other stuff and IM not ready to commit yet.
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despite white text on tolstoy, i agree with the non-hidden sentiment. i think there were better or equal russian writers, who might be taken much later or even not at all. BUT popularity counts i guess, which is fair, and he is #1 in russian minds.