The Shelf of Shame V.2 - New Round Starting

Okay. I've requisitioned this game from Rogue. The original thread can be found here.

If you don't know how it works, I'll do a copy & paste from Rogue's original description:

The premise of the game is as follows: there will be ten rounds, each lasting twenty-four hours, one for each player. In your designated round, you will name a book that you are ashamed that you?ve never gotten around to reading. After you do so, each of the other nine players will state whether or not they have read the book you named.

At this point, the round ends and I?ll tally up the points. As to how the points are earned, I?ll give you an example:

Just for an example, say on my round, I say that I haven?t read The Catcher in the Rye. Now, we?ll say that, of the remaining nine players, eight have read it and one hasn?t. I get eight points. And the other player who hasn?t read it gets one.

Thus, and I hope this is all clear, it is in your best interest to name a book that you have not read but you think everyone else probably has. So, don?t name some obscure book like Selected Poems of Ondra Lysohorsky. No one but me has read that book (and a darn fine book it is!), so you won?t get any points and everyone else will.

This game will work on the honor system. There?s basically no way for me to know if you?re telling the truth or not about what you have or haven?t read. So, be honest, okay?

After all ten players have signed up, I?ll post a roster of the order in which the rounds will progress. If you miss your round, too bad, the game goes on. If you don?t post in another player?s round, again, too bad. You cannot, for instance, show up when we?re halfway through another round and attempt to post about the previous round. That?s too confusing and since I?m the creator, I?m saying no to that. Each round goes twenty-four hours, that should be plenty of time for you to get in here and post your book (when it?s your round) or respond to other?s posted books (when it?s not your round).

If for some reason, you?re not going to be here during your assigned round (say your round falls on a weekend and you?re not here on weekends, you have a couple of options. Either let me know ahead of time and I?ll see about switching you with another player or else PM me your choice ahead of time and I?ll post it for you.

So let's start this game. We are resetting the non-allowed list from last time, so you can use any book you want to.

Towards the end of the last thread, we were mixing it up with novels, films and albums. I think we'll alternate every game. So the first round will be books - the second, films, and the third will be albums. We might have an "all in" round every so often, but we'll see.

So, let's get started!


1. TheBoogieMan
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2. Zaz

 

3. Rogue1-and-a-half

 

Up for more takers.

 

what's the prize?

 

Yes, is there a prize?

 

Oh yeah, I meant to say something about that. Let's say (a little tentatively, because I have to clear this with MS first, but it should be okay) a couple of days VIP for each round winner, and two weeks for the championship winner?


EDIT: Confirmed with MS - although the duration is 24 hours for round winners, and one week for championship winners, as per MS policy.

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
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10.

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
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I'll try it again.

 

Hmmmmmm, Think I'll try this one. What the heck.

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
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8.
9.
10.

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
7. me, miss frared, that is
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9.
10.

what with the prize and all

 

Excellent. Three more slots to fill!

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
7. me, miss frared, that is
8. DarthIshtar
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10.

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
7. me, miss frared, that is
8. DarthIshtar
9. doc4converse
10.

 

Just one more. Come on, people, let's get going.

 

1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
7. me, miss frared, that is
8. DarthIshtar
9. doc4converse
10. Jedi_Master_Conor

i figure i'll give this a shot and have some fun

 

Awesome group we've got here!

 

Great. I was actually loking forward to joining.

 

yay! 'specially since we both are in it

anway, i'm getting the creeps now, what with how i'll fare in this one.

 

I've only won one round, I think; in a tie with Malcolm.

Anyway, full slate, so you're up, Boogie...

 

Indiana, I can PM you when signups are happening for the next game, if you'd like.

So, excellent, we can start! Remember, this round, it is books.


1. TheBoogieMan
2. Zaz
3. Rogue1-and-a-half
4. harpuah
5. Shackleton
6. MariahJade2
7. darth_frared
8. DarthIshtar
9. doc4converse
10. Jedi_Master_Conor

For this round, we'll go in order of sign-up, but next round, what do you say to me randomising the ten names for a random order? I think that'd be best, but I don't think I should do it for this round.

So I'm up first.

I'm ashamed to say, I have never read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Sad, I know.

 

I've read that one, Douglas Adams is very funny.

 

Believe it or not, I haven't read it either..

 

does it count to have started reading and then abandoned it?

 

Probably not..