The Wiki is about to be zapped (actually it already has been), so here
is the final accounting of our exercise on who has read what books. No
further voting accepted. All decisions are final. Void where
prohibited by law. No purchase necessary.
UNREAD BY ANY OF US:
A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Under the Net
Iris Murdoch
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
BOOKS WHICH HAVE BEEN READ (BY AT LEAST ONE AFCA DENIZEN)
The Adventures of Augie March (1)
Saul Bellow (Boron)
All the King's Men (4)
Robert Penn Warren (Rick B., Jon M, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth)
American Pastoral (1)
Philip Roth (M C Hamster)
An American Tragedy (2)
Theodore Dreiser (Mary Shafer, Boron)
Animal Farm (32)
George Orwell (M C Hamster, snidely, Erich, Greg Johnson, V., Tim
Wright, Opus, JRBauer, Sanford Manley, Rick B., Lesmond, Jim Beaver,
Heather, Jen, Lisa Ann, Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre, darkon,
Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, D.F. Manno, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary
Shafer, groo, Guillermo el Gato, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul L.
Madarasz)
Appointment in Samarra (2)
John O'Hara (V., Mary Shafer)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (11)
Judy Blume (V., Opus, JRBauer, Lesmond, Heather, Lisa Ann, darkon,
Cheetah, QueBarb, Kajikit, Kevin)
The Assistant (3)
Bernard Malamud (Rick B., Mary F, Paul Madarasz)
Atonement (1)
Ian McEwan (Artyw2)
At Swim-Two-Birds (1)
Flann O'Brien (Heather)
Beloved (3)
Toni Morrison (Mary F, QueBarb, Kevin)
The Berlin Stories (1)
Christopher Isherwood (landotter)
The Big Sleep (16)
Raymond Chandler (Greg Johnson, Opus, Jim Beaver, Jen, Peter Boulding,
Jon M, Pierre, darkon, Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, D.F. Manno, Kevin,
Mary Shafer, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
The Blind Assassin (1)
Margaret Atwood (Kevin)
Blood Meridian (3)
Cormac McCarthy (V., Jim Beaver, Artyw2)
Brideshead Revisited (5)
Evelyn Waugh (M C Hamster, V., Peter Boulding, Mary F, Mary Shafer)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (5)
Thornton Wilder (snidely, Greg Johnson, Mary F, Mary Shafer, Mike
Muth)
Call It Sleep (2)
Henry Roth (Rick B., Paul Madarasz)
Catch-22 (31)
Joseph Heller (M C Hamster, Lesmond, snidely. Erich, Greg Johnson, V.,
Tim Wright, Opus, TedTheCat, JRBauer, Sanford Manley, Rick B., Jim
Beaver, Heather, Jen, Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre, darkon, Cheetah,
Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, D.F. Manno, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer,
groo, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
The Catcher in the Rye (23)
J.D. Salinger (M C Hamster, Erich, V., Opus, TedTheCat, Rick B., Jim
Beaver, Heather, Lisa Ann, Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre, darkon,
Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo, Charlie
Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
A Clockwork Orange (17)
Anthony Burgess (M C Hamster, V., Tim Wright, Opus, JRBauer, Sanford
Manley, Rick B., Jim Beaver, Jon M, Pierre, darkon, QueBarb, Kajikit,
Kevin, groo, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
The Confessions of Nat Turner (7)
William Styron (M C Hamster, TedTheCat, Jon M, Mary F, QueBarb, Mary
Shafer, Mike Muth)
The Corrections (2)
Jonathan Franzen (M C Hamster, V.)
The Crying of Lot 49 (5)
Thomas Pynchon (M C Hamster, Jim Beaver, Pierre, Kevin, Paul Madarasz)
The Day of the Locust (6)
Nathanael West (Opus, Rick B. Artyw2, D.F. Manno, Mary Shafer, Paul
Madarasz)
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1)
Willa Cather (Mary Shafer)
A Death in the Family (2)
James Agee (Mary Shafer, Boron)
The Death of the Heart (1)
Elizabeth Bowen (Rick B.)
Deliverance (8)
James Dickey (V., TedTheCat, Jim Beaver, Jon M, darkon, Artyw2, Kevin,
Mike Muth)
Dog Soldiers (6)
Robert Stone (Jim Beaver, Jon M, Artyw2, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth, Paul
Madarasz)
Falconer (2)
John Cheever (Pierre, Paul Madarasz)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (7)
John Fowles (V., Peter Boulding, Mary F, QueBarb, Kevin, Mary Shafer,
Paul Madarasz)
Go Tell it on the Mountain (2)
James Baldwin (Heather, Mary F)
The Golden Notebook (2)
Doris Lessing (Pierre, Paul Madarasz)
Gone With the Wind (11)
Margaret Mitchell (V., Tim Wright, JRBauer, Lesmond, Heather, Lisa
Ann, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth)
The Grapes of Wrath (19)
John Steinbeck (M C Hamster, Erich, V., TedTheCat, JRBauer, Rick B.,
Jim Beaver, Heather, Peter Boulding, Jon M, darkon, Cheetah, Artyw2,
Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth)
Gravity's Rainbow (8)
Thomas Pynchon (M C Hamster, Erich, Jim Beaver, Pierre, Kevin, Mary
Shafer, groo, Paul Madarasz)
The Great Gatsby (14)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (M C Hamster, snidely, Lesmond, Opus, Rick B., Jim
Beaver, Heather, Jen, Jon M, Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, Mary
Shafer)
A Handful of Dust (2)
Evelyn Waugh (Heather, Mary Shafer)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (3)
Carson McCullers (Lisa Ann, Artyw2, Mary Shafer)
The Heart of the Matter (3)
Graham Greene (M C Hamster, Heather, Mary Shafer)
Herzog (4)
Saul Bellow (M C Hamster, TedTheCat, Heather, Pierre)
A House for Mr. Biswas (1)
V.S. Naipaul (Heather)
I, Claudius (9)
Robert Graves (M C Hamster, Opus, Peter Boulding, QueBarb, Mary
Shafer, groo, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
Invisible Man (7)
Ralph Ellison (JRBauer, Lesmond, Lisa Ann, Cheetah, Kevin, groo, Mike
Muth)
Light in August (2)
William Faulkner (Mary Shafer, Boron)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (19)
C.S. Lewis (snidely, Greg Johnson, V., Opus, JRBauer, Heather, Jen,
Peter Boulding, darkon, Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit,
Kevin, Mary Shafer, Guillermo el Gato, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth)
Lolita (9)
Vladimir Nabokov (M C Hamster, Lesmond, Peter Boulding, Pierre,
QueBarb, Kevin, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
Lord of the Flies (26)
William Golding (M C Hamster, snidely, Erich, Greg Johnson, V., Tim
Wright, Opus, TedTheCat, JRBauer, Lesmond, Jim Beaver, Heather, Jen,
Peter Boulding, Jon M, darkon, Cheetah, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit,
Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
The Lord of the Rings (23)
J.R.R. Tolkien (M C Hamster, snidely, Erich, Greg Johnson, V., Tim
Wright, Opus, JRBauer, Heather, Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre, darkon,
Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo, Guillermo
el Gato, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth)
Loving (1)
Henry Green (V.)
Lucky Jim (2)
Kingsley Amis (Heather, Pierre)
Midnight's Children (2)
Salman Rushdie (Greg Johnson, Peter Boulding)
Money (1)
Martin Amis (Pierre)
The Moviegoer (2)
Walker Percy (Jim Beaver, Kevin)
Mrs. Dalloway (1)
Virginia Woolf (Heather)
Naked Lunch (8)
William Burroughs (Erich, V., Pierre, Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo,
Guillermo el Gato, Paul Madarasz)
Native Son (2)
Richard Wright (Rick B., Kevin)
Neuromancer (11)
William Gibson (Greg Johnson, V., Jen, Pierre, Mary F, QueBarb,
Kajikit, Kevin, groo, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
1984 (31)
George Orwell (M C Hamster, snidely, Greg Johnson, V., Tim Wright,
Opus,TedTheCat, JRBauer, Sanford Manley, Rick B., Lesmond, Jim Beaver,
Heather, Jen, Lisa Ann, Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre, darkon,
Cheetah, Mary F, QueBarb, D.F. Manno, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer,
groo, Guillermo el Gato, Charlie Pearce, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
On the Road (10)
Jack Kerouac (Rick B., Lesmond, Jen, Pierre, darkon, Mary F, Kevin,
Mary Shafer, groo, Paul Madarasz)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (17)
Ken Kesey (M C Hamster, V., Opus, TedTheCat, JRBauer, Rick B., Jim
Beaver, Lisa Ann, Jon M, darkon, Mary F, QueBarb, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary
Shafer, groo, Paul Madarasz)
The Painted Bird (3)
Jerzy Kosinski (Rick B., Pierre, Mary F, Kevin)
Pale Fire (4)
Vladimir Nabokov (JRBauer, Pierre, Mary Shafer, Paul Madarasz)
A Passage to India (9)
E.M. Forster (M C Hamster, Erich, V., Rick B., Heather, Peter
Boulding, Mary F, Kajikit, Mary Shafer)
Play It As It Lays (3)
Joan Didion (Paul, Mary Shafer, M C Hamster)
Portnoy's Complaint (14)
Philip Roth (Tim Wright, TedTheCat, JRBauer, Lesmond, Jim Beaver, Jen,
Jon M, Pierre, Cheetah, Mary F, Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo, Paul
Madarasz)
Possession (1)
A.S. Byatt (Kevin)
The Power and the Glory (7)
Graham Greene (M C Hamster, Greg Johnson, Heather, Cheetah, Artyw2,
Kajikit, Mary Shafer)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (6)
Muriel Spark (Heather, Jen, Lisa Ann, Peter Boulding, Mary F, Mary
Shafer)
Rabbit, Run (7)
John Updike (Rick B., Pierre, Mary F, QueBarb, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth,
Paul Madarasz)
Ragtime (13)
E.L. Doctorow (TedTheCat, Rick B., Lesmond, Jim Beaver, Jon M,
Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, D.F. Manno, Kevin, Mary Shafer, Paul
Madarasz)
The Recognitions (1)
William Gaddis (Paul)
Red Harvest (6)
Dashiell Hammett (Opus, Jim Beaver, Jon M, Artyw2, Mary F, Mary
Shafer)
The Sheltering Sky (2)
Paul Bowles (Pierre, Cheetah)
Slaughterhouse-Five (23)
Kurt Vonnegut (M C Hamster, Erich, Greg Johnson, V., TedTheCat,
JRBauer, Sanford Manley, Lesmond, Jim Beaver, Heather, Jon M, Pierre,
darkon, Cheetah, Artyw2, Mary F, QueBarb, Kevin, Mary Shafer, groo,
Guillermo el Gato, Mike Muth, Paul Madarasz)
Snow Crash (12)
Neal Stephenson (Greg Johnson, V., Opus, Heather, Jen, Jon M, Pierre,
darkon, Artyw2, Kevin, groo, Paul Madarasz)
The Sot-Weed Factor (4)
John Barth (Lesmond, TedTheCat, Heather, Paul Madarasz)
The Sound and the Fury (3)
William Faulkner (Jim Beaver, Kevin, Mary Shafer)
The Sportswriter (1)
Richard Ford (Artyw2)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (10)
John le Carre (Erich, Greg Johnson, V., Peter Boulding, Jon M, Pierre,
Mary F, QueBarb, Kevin, Mary Shafer)
The Sun Also Rises (11)
Ernest Hemingway (M C Hamster, Opus, Rick B., Heather, Jon M, Pierre,
Artyw2, Mary F, Kevin, Mary Shafer, Mike Muth)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2)
Zora Neale Hurston (Kevin, Lisa Ann)
Things Fall Apart (2)
Chinua Achebe (Heather, Mary F)
To Kill a Mockingbird (21)
Harper Lee (M C Hamster, Erich, V., Tim Wright, TedTheCat, Rick B.,
Lesmond, Jim Beaver, Heather, Lisa Ann, Peter Boulding, Jon M, darkon,
Mary F, QueBarb, D.F. Manno, Kajikit, Kevin, Mary Shafer, Charlie
Pearce, Mike Muth)
To the Lighthouse (3)
Virginia Woolf (Lesmond, Heather, Mary F)
Tropic of Cancer (3)
Henry Miller (JRBauer, Mary Shafer, Paul Madarasz)
Ubik (6)
Philip K. Dick (Sanford Manley the "Invisible Lurker", Jon M, Pierre,
Mary Shafer, groo, Paul Madarasz)
Under the Volcano (1)
Iris Murdoch (Paul)
Watchmen (2)
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Greg Johnson, JRBauer)
White Noise (1)
Don Delillo (Paul)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1)
Jean Rhys (Mary F)
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We could do a multidimensional scaling project with these data, to
create a map that shows who is close and who is far apart based on
their reading of these books. I nominate Mike Kruger to undertake
this project. My work here is done.
--
M C Hamster "Big Wheel Keep on Turning" -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
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