Autumn, 2011: Top 2 Top 100 Lists
As the loser of the last pentad, David made a special request: to be able to name the theme of the first podi of Pentad the Second. He decided on books that were included in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels written in the English language in the 20th century, since he has a lot of books on that list he wants to read. Will turned up his nose at this list, however, so Dave agreed to add a second list: The Telegraph’s list of 100 novels that everyone should read. Thus was born the current competition. All books listed on either list are fair game.
So let the competition commence! It shall run from November 1st, 2011 to November 1st, 2012, and it shall be epic.
Current Scoreboard
The Autumn, 2011 competition is underway. The current scoreboard is posted below:
| WILL | DAVE | |||||||
| # | Title/Author | Date Read | Pages | # | Title/Author | Date Read | Pages | |
| 1 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Telegraph) | 12/19 | 524 | 1 | Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (ML) | 11/25 | 153 | |
| 2 | — | — | — | 2 | The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse (Telegraph) | 2/1 | 222 | |
| 3 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | |
| 4 | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | |
| 5 | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | |
| 6 | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | |
| 7 | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | |
| 8 | — | — | — | 8 | — | — | — | |
| 9 | — | — | — | 9 | — | — | — | |
| 10 | — | — | — | 10 | — | — | — | |
| Total: | 524 | Total: | 375 | |||||
| Average Book Length: | 524 | Average Book Length: | 188 | |||||
* Note: It was decided mutually that books of non-epic poetry would count for half the number of their total pages, seeing as the text of many poems do not take up even half of a full page.
