Let the Humiliation begin [S. Worthen

Update: Thank you to everyone who voted! The results of the game are now posted here.

Thank you to all of you brave enough to publicly compete in a game of Humiliation. Now, it's time to vote, and find out just which book(s) are the most and least read among the entrants. (You can participate even if you don't have an entry in the running. I'm afraid you don't be able to vote if you don't have a LiveJournal account - that's just the way LJ polls work.)

Go through the following list and check the boxes next to ALL of the books you have read. What counts as reading a book is ultimately up to you, but here are some guidelines: A few chapters doesn't count. Skipping just the epilogue does. (See this post for the full rules of the game.)

[Poll #565917]

The winner will be whoever is ahead as of 4 pm BST on Friday. It might well be obvious who's winning well before that, but if it's not, that's when a narrow lead will matter most. May the worst-read contestant win.

Notes: The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit are also collected in The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus. Peter Rabbit collected in a number of comprehensive Beatrix Potter collections, including Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter and The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter.

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I guess, I'm the first one to vote -poll results look funny this way.

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It should look more and more normal soon. Four people have voted now - and I'd like to commemorate this moment, in case the results start changing dramatically - Black Beauty and Little Women are currently tied in first place!

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hmm i suspect my lack of books read form this list is because from quite an early age i was mostly reading SF or pixie-shit (till i grew out of it).

er, grew out of what?

pixie-shit
fantasy books just annoy me these days.

Whew! I thought you meant sf! (not that I've grown out of either -- just particular types)

I have to say, I'm pleased to see that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is still beating Harry Potter, if only by one vote!

cant say i am. :)

Are you betting on it being the most read? ;)

i probably should have picked a more obscure book. i dont really want to end up reading the book with the wardrobe.

Why not? It's a good book. And it involves ham at at least one point.

Yes, it's a very good book, in my opinion!

The wardrobe is incidental, really--it's not like it's running around the story on four little legs ;p

You don't have to read the book if you "win". We'll just all mock you for it - which shouldn't much matter, so long as you don't care to read it.

At least it's a fairly short book.

Just to be pedantic (and because it's the book which made me into the woman I am today, ie. got me thrown out of Sunday School for wanting to be The Morrigan when I grew up, ahem) it's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, not The Weird Stone of Brisingamen.

But as only myself and one other have read it, it hardly matters.

FF, not sulking really.

Thank you for the correction. I did quite a bit of error-checking on the names and authors for the poll. (How is Terabithia spelled exactly? How many Ls in Pollyanna?) Yet I somehow failed to check the most longest and most unusual title in the whole lot. Thanks for letting me know, and I'm sorry that polls are done such that I can't go back and edit it into correctness.

At least six people have now admitted to reading it. I'm intrigued by its influences that I've run into lately - a good incentive to read it myself.

It's one of my fave fantasy books, that and The Moon of Gomrath and The Owl Circle...I love Alan Garner. :-)

with a US mom who was raised in England - and then who worked as a children's librarian back in the US for several years - I was cursed. read even the noddy books, every one, even as a US kid.

and there's no enid blyton in here (is there?)! or the misty of chincoteague books, for that matter, on the US side.

Perversely, given the way you wrote your comment, the Noddy books were written by Enid Blyton.

There is a notable preponderance of bunny books and a real lack of horse books on this list. Very few cat or dog books too.

you are kidding!! I just remembered all the Snubby/ Diana and Fatty books. And all the so and so in First form, Second form, etc. never realized noddy was enid as well.

I hadn't even thought of the Marguerite Henry books. Not that I read them all or anything.

Interesting that many of these books I read for my brother and sister and not for myself. Hrm...

Scary how many of those books I actually have read... I think I have all but 4.

That was my reaction too. I hadn't realized I was so well-read in children's and young adult literature. I don't own as many, but I've read most of them.

Thanks for the poll recommendation, by the way!

I wanted to participate, but it's damn hard to think of anything! I was trying to think of highschool books that I never read ... like To Kill a Mockingbird ... but I don't know if that counts.

I'm better at "I haven't done" games when they don't involve books. Like, when I can say I've never eaten meat ... and then everyone else loses ;-)

I struggled to come up with an entry too. Hosting is fun, but I'm not that good at actually playing.

If you've never eaten meat, then presumably your parents were vegetarian?

yes, my parents are.

I tried Chicken once, but I promptly felt like throwing up, and that was the end of that.

You have to read TKAM. It really is one of the best American novels ever. It is just so beautifully written/crafted.

Oh I have nothing against it, I was just never assigned the book. I seriously doubt I'll ever get to it though. If I can even see past my comps list and my dissertation to some future point where I have a brief moment where I can read non-school stuff, it's going to be Eco's new book, and then Gibson's (which is not so new anymore).

I have totally forgotten--are you waiting to see if your book gets the lowest number of votes, or the highest? (Still haven't had morning coffee--very slow here. ^-^;;)

Both give you distinction, but the goal is to get the most votes - because the game is Humiliation, and it's most humiliating not to have read a book which more or less everyone else has.

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