Directors Writers Draft (1 Viewer)

[JenB]

John Dhein -Both are great lists though.

 

[Dheiner]

Well, I'll vote for me.

 

[Angelo.M]

Jan H
William Shakespeare: one of the blueprints
William Faulkner: amazing
Philip Roth: one of my faves; Martin Dressler is sublime
Don DeLillo: good pick
Larry McMurtry: haven't read
W.B. Yeats: another blueprint
Edgar Allan Poe: oh man
Nathanael West: great stuff, essential, but not my taste
John Kennedy Toole: not that familiar
Flannery O'Connor: good pick

vs.

John Dhein
Jules Verne: good pick
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: good pick
Hans Christian Andersen: good pick
Lawrence Block: not that familiar
Homer: another blueprint
Raymond Chandler: not that familiar
John D. MacDonald: haven't read
Ann Rule: haven't read
Thomas Jefferson: good pick
Terence Dickinson: tried, not a fan

JanH

 

[george kaplan]

Well Shakespeare, Faulkner and Poe are great, but that's pretty much it for me on Jan's list.

John on the other hand has Verne, Doyle, Andersen, Chandler & Jefferson, all of which I like better than the three I like on Jan's list.

So a pretty easy vote for John

 

[Gabe D]

Each has one I really wanted (Shakespeare and Ann Rule). John also has Chandler, who I would've been happy to have. I'll go with John, whose list is really more to my taste.

 

[Jan H]

Jeez, my list sucks! What was I thinking??

John

 

[george kaplan]

I'm not sure if that's irony, sarcasm, an epiphany, regret or what, but it's sure as hell one of the most interesting votes I've seen in a while.

 

[Jan H]

It was all of the above, George.

 

[George_W_K]

Jeez, my list sucks! What was I thinking?? JOHN

 

[Justin Doring]

Jan H with an awesome list! Of course John's list is excellent as well.

 

[Brian Lawrence]

Jan H

 

[SteveGon]

Jan - By a hair or two.

 

[Angelo.M]

Jeez, my list sucks! What was I thinking??

 

[Jan H]

I know that's an odd thing to do, but I guess it's my own strange way of saying the whole "voting for yourself" thing is unnecessary and, to be frank, rather tacky.

 

[george kaplan]

I disagree. The reason for voting for yourself is because sometimes you might not. This is a draft, not a top 10 list, and so sometimes someone else might end up with a better list. Case in point, the music draft, where I like my list better than everyone except the one with the Beatles on it. I'm going to vote for that one and against myself they're ever matched up. If we didn't vote on our own matches, then we'd be voting for ourselves by default. And if I don't vote for myself when I think I have the best list, and then my opponent votes for himself, and by the time I get back the match is called, I've voted against myself by default.

 

[Jan H]

I suppose you have a point, though I find it difficult to believe that anyone would seriously vote for another's list over his/her own, under any circumstances (your Beatlemania notwithstanding).

 

[Dheiner]

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...27#post1337427

Here's the proof.

 

[george kaplan]

Let me put that to the test. Let's you and I have a 2 person, 2 round draft of NBA teams. I'll go first and pick the Lakers. You pick two teams, then I'll pick one more. Then let's see if you vote for your list or mine.

 

[ChuckDeLa]

John wins 7-4. Next match coming up!

 

[ChuckDeLa]

Brian Lawrence
Joyce Carol Oates
Robert A. Heinlein
Thomas Hardy
Robert R. McCammon
D.H. Lawrence
Anne Tyler
Peter Straub
Truman Capote
Ed Gorman
Dan Simmons

vs.

Angelo.M
Albert Camus
Ernest Hemingway
Jorge Luis Borges
Jean-Paul Sartre
Anton Chekhov
Dashiell Hammett
Salman Rushdie
Robert Frost
Samuel Beckett
Sylvia Plath