CP LITERATURE DRAFT - (Rapid Fire Free For All Round)

[octothorp]

In the food and drink category:
A Day at elBulli
In more than 800 gorgeous photographs (all taken the same day), this book documents life at the world's best restaurant.

http://www.iainclaridge.co.uk/blog/?p=776

[Circa89]

Just got back from vacation and haven't slept for 36 hours.
Quick pick to keep this sluggish draft clipping along like a herd of turtles.

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey - Is this still considered a Memoir after he admitted to making a lot of it up? Still an excellent book and my selection im Memoir/biography.

[troutman]

A feature film is being released based on my child lit choice, Where The Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze director, Arcade Fire, Karen O on soundtrack):

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer...gs-are/trailer

This actually looks real good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_t...ings_Are_(film)

[Eastern Girl]

Someone can asskick me, cause I am just swamped right now.

[Bobblehead]

In the category of Fantasy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Covenant

1. Lord Foul's Bane – (1977)
2. The Illearth War – (1978)
3. The Power that Preserves – (1979)

The central character is Thomas Covenant, a bitter and cynical writer afflicted with leprosy, shunned and despised by society, who is destined to become the heroic saviour of an alternate world- or, perhaps, only of his own sanity. Through six novels published between 1977 and 1983, Covenant struggles against the evil Lord Foul "The Despiser" who intends to break the physical universe to escape its bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "The Creator."

http://theland.antgear.com/

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

I read those when I was like 13! I remember loving them. There was a second series too, wasn't there?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

I read those when I was like 13! I remember loving them. There was a second series too, wasn't there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Covenant

There were Second Chronicles and Last Chronicles too.

[liamenator]

Why don't we go to GirlySports' fast-track mode in order to pick things up? I think once we are this late in the game, duplicate picks are less of an issue.

I think what she did in other drafts was say, anyone can make their round X pick in any order, but each team may only make 1 pick per 12 hour period. After 12 hours, we move on to the next round (and teams that miss the window can just bank their picks and catch up when able).

Thoughts?

[driveway]

^Word to that. (pun intended of course)

In the Category of World Literature, Team Discovery Channel is proud to select:



My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk

This book won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award in 2003, and its author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

I'm reading it right now, haven't made it all the way through, but it's staggeringly good. The basic outline is that during the 17th Century, the Sultan of Istanbul has commissioned an illuminated manuscript, however he's asked that the images be rendered in a western style, which is blasphemy to many of Istanbul's muslims. The novel opens with the chapter "I am a Corpse" where one of the illustrators is lying murdered in a well and the mystery spins from there.

It's about Art, Power, Love and Sex and the writing is astonishing.

[liamenator]

Originally Posted by driveway

^Word to that. (pun intended of course)


My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk

This book won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award in 2003, and its author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

I'm reading it right now, haven't made it all the way through, but it's staggeringly good.

It's about Art, Power, Love and Sex and the writing is astonishing.

I'm reading it right now, too, actually. Not very deep into it yet, but am loving it so far.

[octothorp]

Weird, I have that one on my bookshelf, I have no idea how long it's been there or how I got it, but it seems as though I haven't even cracked the cover. I guess I'll have to read it...

[rogermexico]

In the Children's Lit category, I'm going to pick The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde.

I remember seeing the animated versions of The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant on tv as a kid. They were such strange, sad stories, and they really stuck with me. Reading the stories years later brought all that back.

[habernac]

Under Philosophy and Religion, I'll take Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. The book looks at Mormon fundamentalists and paints a disturbing picture of polygamy, child abuse and murder. I'm not much into religion but found this a very interesting read.

[kermitology]

Orhan Pamuk books are such a tough slag. They're incredibly well written, but it borders on the limits of my literary abilities. I was so happy when I finished "The Black Book" just because I didn't have to read it anymore.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Guess I'm up again.

In the category of Nonfiction-Memoir, team Bartleby and the Scriveners is pleased to select The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein.


This is sort of a double-coup for us at BB&S. I'm thrilled that this book, one of my favourites, fell this far in the draft, and thrilled that I could work out a trade for a second memoir so that I could pick it.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is the story of how "two Americans"--that is Stein and her lifetime partner Alice Toklas, came to be the central figures in the so-called "Lost Generation"--effectively at the heart of the artistic and literary movement of modernism. Sometimes called the "Mama of Dada" (a slight misnomer in my view), Stein typically wrote in a more gnomic, impenetrable style, but AABT is her first book written in plain old American English--and it was an instant sensation, rising up the bestseller lists, and even being selected for the Book-of-the-Month club, an honour that instantly secured for Stein a curious place among the American middlebrow public in spite of the fact that most of them would not even have encountered her other work, let alone have been particularly good readers of it.

Stein became famous and wealthy overnight--and lost in all of that is the book's central joke: that it is the story of Stein, written by Stein, but narrated in the voice of Alice B. Toklas. The book is sly about this, referring jokingly to Stein as "one of three geniuses that I have met" (the other two being Picasso and Alfred North Whitehead) until the final paragraph of the book reveals the trick to Stein's public. It's a clever, funny, gossipy and enjoyable read if you're at all interested in American expatriate modernism, and you can really see the influence that Stein had on younger writers such as Hemingway (a longtime protege of hers) and Sherwood Anderson. Most of all, it amounts to an aesthetics of art in the modern era, and contains a ton of pithy wisdom about "how to look at art" when it often seems to resist the very idea of "being looked at" in the manner of Fauvism, cubism, etc. etc.

[liamenator]

For my fiction wildcard pick, I'll take American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
(I can't believe it's still on the board).



I think at this point, the novel speaks for itself, but I will say the chapters on Genesis, Huey Lewis and the News, and Whitney Houston are 3 of my favourite pieces of writing, in any novel, ever.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go return some videotapes.

[troutman]

I select in the Euro Lit category, THE TRIAL by FRANZ KAFKA (1925):

My sub-conscious recognizes this story - many of my dreams are like this.

The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime.

According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Great pick, trout.

[Bobblehead]

What happened to Jammies?

I wanted to know when he was finally going to pick the book he named his team after; or what would happen if someone else picked it.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

How many rounds are left? Seems like we've slowed to a crawl now.