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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 11:45:21 GMT -4
I thought this would be fun.... I'm going to post a question, you guys answer... first person to get an answer gets the points. I intend to make them hard to Google This one will be book related, since that's my thing.. sorta in honor of the new Song of Fire and Ice Book. According to Ingram (the wholesaler I use at the store) George RR Martin holds 10 of the top 25 best selling fantasy books right now... Dance with Dragons is #1, and the rest of the series (3 different editons of Game of Thrones, 2 of Sword of Swords, each of the other 2, and the box set of all four paperbacks) make up 10 of the top 15 titles. Name the other books in the Fantasy Category of the top 25 (15 all together). Two of them are 'classic' titles, those two will be worth 2 points each, the others 1 point each. Answer with Author and Title Scoreboard: Havoc: 2 Jasonjaconetti: 2 Mike M: 1
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Post by Havoc on Jul 15, 2011 11:48:48 GMT -4
All three Lord of the Rings novels Tolkien
DragonLance Chronicles - Weiss and Hickman
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 12:01:43 GMT -4
An Excellent guess, but no. Fellowship of the Ring was pretty high (#78) but not in the Top 25. There was actually no Dragon Lance/Forgotten Realms stuff at all.. I was kinda surprised by that.
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Post by Havoc on Jul 15, 2011 12:08:03 GMT -4
Definitely Wise Man's Fear and maybe even Name of the Wind - Rothfuss
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 12:11:16 GMT -4
*Ding* Wise Man's fear is actually 3rd (Behind Dance with Dragons and Storm of Swords... I guess the HBO show drove alot of new readers) and Name of the Wind is #21.
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Post by Mike M on Jul 15, 2011 12:26:29 GMT -4
I'd guess Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling as one. Depending on what time period the list covers, all 7 books could be in there (and I can name them all, if necessary).
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 12:34:18 GMT -4
They classify Harry Potter as 'Juvenile Fiction' so it's not considered fantasy by this particular outfit. They don't have cross-sectional lists, but the Harry Potter series is 4,5,6,8,10, and 11 of the Juvenile Fiction category.. behind the newest books Rick Riodan's two series (the guy that wrote Percy Jackson) and one by someone named Cassandre Clare I've never heard of.
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Post by Mike M on Jul 15, 2011 12:34:55 GMT -4
OK, how about Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm?
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 12:42:40 GMT -4
Just missed.. that one is #30. Getting closer though
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Post by Havoc on Jul 15, 2011 13:42:04 GMT -4
Wheel of Time - Jordan.
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 13:53:15 GMT -4
Not the whole series, nope
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Post by Havoc on Jul 15, 2011 14:02:58 GMT -4
Not the whole series, nope Book one then, spank
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Post by Mike M on Jul 15, 2011 14:16:18 GMT -4
Towers of Midnight
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 14:20:02 GMT -4
*Ding* Towers of Midnight is correct... that's the most recent one. It was #9.
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Post by wildfire on Jul 15, 2011 14:28:10 GMT -4
Incidently, most of the rest of the stuff on the list is what I would call 'Modern' fantasy rather than 'Epic' Fantasy.
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