Cpt. Smurf

Trident, be our guest! With all of us putting suggestions here, we're confusing ourselves. An organisational touch would improve it no-end!

Shall we see how many get nominated first? if it's well over 25, but not enough for a top 50 then the Top 25. If it's well over 50 but ...

I suppose we're judging this on number of nominations per book? The less nominations there are, the further down the list they go? Wow, this is going to take a ...

Pride and Prejuidice Jane Eyre

Are there any rules? Not as of yet :P You can tell this is going to be organised! XD

Hitch Hikers' Guide - Douglas Adams Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Animal Farm/1984 - George Orwell Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ...

We need a seperate thread for this, I think, otherwise we're going off-topic. I've posted one in the Randomness forum.

The place to nominate the books you think should go in the unofficial YWS Top 100.

Well, I suppose Lord of the Flies should be on there too. And I completely forgot about Hitch Hikers'

Dracula and Frankenstein? They were pretty influential...

I apologise for my ignorance, but what exactly is P&P? For other things, His Dark Materials and The Silmarillion, off the top of my head. EDIT:But, yes, we do need ...

Here's an idea: how about we create our own Top 100, with everyone voting on the nominations and their placements on the list? Excellent idea. I second the notion. Great ...

Of course Tolkein used other languages to influence his own, that is how languages are created. His was actually a proper language which, if one was to learn it, could ...

I WIN. How mature. Win what exactly? It wasn't a contest, merely a debate, in which far more evidence against Paolini's so called "originality" has been put forth than for.

Well, you're entirely missing the point. Yes, many high fantasy worlds are alike LOTR, but having a similar world is acceptable. Tolkein has set the traditional fantasy world setting, which, ...