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An Aficionado’s Guide to the top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time: VOTE & Final Nomination List
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No Tolkien? Was he disqualified for some reason? I'm voting now, but my #1 choice would be Lord of the Rings.
Susinok wrote: "No Tolkien? Was he disqualified for some reason? I'm voting now, but my #1 choice would be Lord of the Rings."I imagine Lord of the Rings was taken out of the second running for getting all the votes ;-) Mrs. Joseph took out all the clear front runners so that it'd be easier to narrow down the rest.
I am confused. Last round I voted for books like Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind. And these were not on your list of books that received 1 or fewer votes but they are not on the Round 2 poll list. Where did they go?
They were probably books in the top 5, Brad. This poll is the bottom books that got more than one vote.
*This poll is for the 2nd round. Books were removed from the previous nomination list for 1 of 3 reasons:1. The book had enough votes to be placed on the Final List for top 100.
2. The book received 1 or less votes during the last poll.
3. The book was duplicated and/or a part of a series. Please search for that series.
Susinok wrote: "No Tolkien? Was he disqualified for some reason? I'm voting now, but my #1 choice would be Lord of the Rings."
Brad wrote: "I am confused. Last round I voted for books like Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind. And these were not on your list of books that received 1 or fewer votes but they are not on ..."
Yall know...this is a reading site. Yall are going to have to start reading these emails I send. :) I'd imagine that a lot of your questions would be answered... :-D
This poll is for the 2nd round. Books were removed from the previous nomination list for 1 of 3 reasons:1. The book had enough votes to be placed on the Final List for top 100.
2. The book received 1 or less votes during the last poll.
3. The book was duplicated and/or a part of a series. Please search for that series.
MrsJoseph explains this second list in message 101.
What were the two books from 2010 M.R? i am just curiuos.
M.R. wrote: "I am an avid fantasy reader and have never even heard of most of these books. The best two books of 2010 were removed and I think if you try and call this a goodreads official list I will protest. ..."Excuse you? Have you volunteered to help in any way? At all? Have you even READ the previous messages, emails and posts??
Cause your "protest" amounts to a hill of beans.
MrsJ,Thank you for putting so much work into this. I'd love to see some of the people who are complaining do nearly half the work you have.
Just saying :)
I just voted on the second round (didn't even make to 10 choices).
Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind and Eye of the World is not on the list so i guess they are the top four books, what is the last book?
Mach wrote: "Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind and Eye of the World is not on the list so i guess they are the top four books, what is the last book?"I suppose that's for us to find out once all the votes are compiled!
You know. I'm feeling a little pissed off and unappreciated right now. Thanks, M.R. You've been a big help.
I'll get back to yall later.
Just voted for the round two books. Thanks for your hard work MrsJ!
Yeah thanks for doing this MrsJ.
No one has ever called this an official GR reading list. It's for this club. FA. And I might not have heard of every book a year ago but I recognized most today.Thanks Mrs.J for the extra work. :)
M.R. wrote: "I am an avid fantasy reader and have never even heard of most of these books. The best two books of 2010 were removed and I think if you try and call this a goodreads official list I will protest. ..."First of all, no one claimed Goodread's Best. We claimed FA's best. What I am finding fascinating about the poll is that it has brought out all sorts of FA members that do not regularly participate in book reads or discussions. The very fact that anyone is protesting rules/ nominations/ etc. at this point when we've been discussing it for about 3 months means that you aren't really an active FA member, and frankly, I feel your vote shouldn't count towards "FA's Top 100." But the other moderators are nicer than I, so it does.
Mach, just chill and wait. Don't you think if she wanted to unveil the top 5, she would have? Just follow the rules.
MrsJ, you rock! I know this took a crazy amount of time and your plate is full with personal and professional obligations, so I can't say enough how awesome you are for doing it.
Thanks, Mrs. J, you're doing an awesome job. People need to get over it. In response to:"I am an avid fantasy reader who didn't read the:
"1. The book had enough votes to be placed on the Final List for top 100."
If the book was that good it was probably removed from the list because it got enough votes.
Anyway, what were those two top books of 2010, cause I'm sure different people would have different opinions on those. For me the two books I enjoyed the most that year were Wise Man's Fear and Way of Kings. I could swap any one of those for Towers of Midnight.
Second Round...man was this hard. I changed a couple of votes multiple times.
Wise Man's Fear was published this year.
*bear hug*This was the best part of my day - thanks so much for organizing the vote!!!
Mach wrote: "Wise Man's Fear was published this year." Yeh I realized when I went back and checked. So then it would be the 2 Sanderson books for me.
It must have been a good year for Sanderson he sure wrote alot of pages that year.I have been thinking about reading Way Of Kings soon.
Terry wrote: "Anyway, what were those two top books of 2010, cause I'm sure different people would have different opinions on those. For me the two books I enjoyed the most that year were Wise Man's Fear and Way of Kings. I could swap any one of those for Towers of Midnight. "He probably means his own books.
Thank you Mrs. J! You've been awesome!
^ this from me to. Thanks MrsJ.
I voted! I used my name, Jason. I think that there's more than a few other Jasons, so I hope that this isn't confusing, MrsJ. If it is, let me know and I'll vote again.
I have read everything ever written in fantasy and I must protest the lack of the obviously superior Twilight from this list. Without it, you can't call this the best of the internets list. If you do, I'll call my congressman. You've been warned.
Voted. Second round I had to really stretch.Thanks for putting this together MrsJ. It'll be fun to see if there are any surprises.
Ala, I've just heard from MrsJ and she needs your address to forward to some guy named Jimmy the Bullet....could you help?
Voted. And it gets tougher each timeBut the fact I haven't read most helps a bit. :)
And MrsJ, Ignore the protests. They just mean you are doing something right.
Come down from the clocktower Ala. Twilight is on the list. Lol.
It better not be! It was thrown out on the Ineligible thread :)
Traci wrote: "Come down from the clocktower Ala. Twilight is on the list. Lol."Wait, are you saying Ala is a hunchback?
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