The 100 Greatest Books, according to PD.com

[Requia ☣]

I guess the question now is, do we actually try to pare it down to 100.

[Phox]

Off the top of my head, I'd add
The Dancers at the End of Time - Michael Moorcock
The Jungle Books - Kipling
Foucalt's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Historical Illuminatus - R.A.W
The Ilead - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
Soldier in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

(Spot the joke entry?)

Clearly, you can't be serious about The Jungle Books. 

I guess the question now is, do we actually try to pare it down to 100.

Why? Why not just keep adding?

[Requia ☣]

To start a fight over which books should go. 

[BadBeast]

Well, we could start by splitting down the multiple volumes, into the best part. For instance, The Two Towers bit of "Lord of the Rings" goes on a bit about quite boring stuff. And "So long and thanks for all the fish" is clearly heads above the rest of the "Hitch Hikers".   

[Phox]

And there are parts of the Martian Chronicles that I simply cannot stand.

[BadBeast]

And there are parts of the Martian Chronicles that I simply cannot stand.

I've always found Ray Bradbury a little tedious, to be honest. Let's chuck the lot. Moorcock's "Dancers" should go in it's place. Plus it has the bonus of a really hilarious H.G Wells as a main character.

[Placid Dingo]

So there's 175 all together. That's me putting all the suggestinops in a big list

We could probably use this thread to crank it up to ONLY 200 and another to whittle it down to 100?

Sound OK?

[BadBeast]

So there's 175 all together. That's me putting all the suggestinops in a big list

We could probably use this thread to crank it up to ONLY 200 and another to whittle it down to 100?

Sound OK?

Sounds good to me.

[Placid Dingo]

I'll go start the book murder thread.

Done ; http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=27616.0

[Triple Zero]

I'd suggest we use an upvote/downvote system like Reddit has (meaning everyone can either give +1 or -1 to an entry, or abstain from voting about it, and then entries are sorted by their Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter aka clever statistical formula that calculates "expected" upvote ratio regardless how many votes an entry got in total)

yeah. but don't hold your breath for me implementing that, do it the easier way first :-P

[BadBeast]

Is that like they do it in Elections?

[AFK]

And there are parts of the Martian Chronicles that I simply cannot stand.

That's because you are an unwashed heathen who doesn't enjoy good Literature.  And you probably like Pie. 

[AFK]

Also, Discordians trying to shoehorn a list into a neat number like 100 is kind of amusing. 

[BadBeast]

Also, Discordians trying to shoehorn a list into a neat number like 100 is kind of amusing. 

I was thinking of maybe somehow re-quantifying the unit value of the decimal numerical system, so that we could increase the number of books on the list, as required,  yet keep to the "100" figure as a technically relevant parameter. But I'm not anally retentive awesomely clever enough to actually work out any details.

[LMNO]

A logarhythmic scale, then.