Favorite Book Tournament 2016 (The Lord of the Rings wins!)

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Post Post #375 (ISO) » Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:04 pm

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Post Post #376 (ISO) » Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:08 pm

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The Brothers Karamazov
And Then There Were None
The Shining
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Post Post #377 (ISO) » Wed Jul 27, 2016 1:18 am

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Match 41:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell


Match 42:

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Bonus Match 7:


Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Bonus Match 8:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Bonus Match 9:

The Shining by Stephen King
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Post Post #378 (ISO) » Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:40 am

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Match 41:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Match 42:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Bonus Match 7:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Bonus Match 8:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Bonus Match 9:
The Shining by Stephen King
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Post Post #379 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 1:36 am

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Post Post #380 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:09 am

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stand by Stephen King
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Post Post #381 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:36 am

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Post Post #382 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 9:40 am

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Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Lord of the Rings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Stand

I'm pretty happy with the bottom half of the bracket - as mentioned, all four were in my personal top 10 (Ender's Game getting blown out is sad, but I don't have it much higher than HHGTTG; maybe 6 vs 8 or something like that). Nineteen Eighty-Four doing well is understandable - I don't remember it all that well, read it in a day in middle school. Odyssey is a bit of a surprise, but it's a fine representative of that period of literature.
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Post Post #383 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:08 pm

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In post 370, Kublai Khan wrote:The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Bonus Match 7:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Bonus Match 8:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Bonus Match 9:
The Stand by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
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Post Post #384 (ISO) » Thu Jul 28, 2016 11:59 pm

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Post Post #385 (ISO) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:54 am

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Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax
The Brothers Karamazov
And Then There Were None
The Stand

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Post Post #386 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:40 pm

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Previous Results:


Match 41:
1984
d. Odyssey, 12-2
Match 42:
The Lord of the Rings
d. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 8-7
Bonus Match 7:
The Brothers Karamazov
d. Anna Karenina, 4-1
Bonus Match 8:
And Then There Were None
d. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 6-5
Bonus Match 9:
The Stand tied The Shining, 3-3

Final Round


Match 43:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Bronze Match:

Odyssey by Homer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Post Post #387 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:09 pm

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Post Post #388 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:10 pm

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Post Post #389 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:12 pm

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Match 43:
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Bronze Match:
Odyssey by Homer
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Post Post #390 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:16 pm

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Lord of the Rings
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Post Post #391 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:28 pm

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1984
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Post Post #392 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:31 pm

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1984
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Post Post #393 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 7:33 pm

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1984
Odyssey
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Post Post #395 (ISO) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:35 pm

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The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Post Post #396 (ISO) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 1:03 am

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Post Post #397 (ISO) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 2:27 am

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1984
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Post Post #398 (ISO) » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:42 am

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