Reading:
The Last Town on Earth
by
Thomas Mullen
Venue: Bull & Castle, Dublin
Date: Sunday, 2nd December 2012
One Sentence Summaries
McGavin: "These boys were jamming in the days of the war." (Tumbleweeds were observed)
Clay: I wood saw that this is a fir to middling book that just lumbered long, I wished it flu."
Webb: "It's a good book, I am surprised it did not go viral."
McCarthy: "If only it flu past."
Syme: "A poor physician was the bane of that town."
Jameson: "I flu through it!"
The Scores
Whitby Syme:
Plot - 12/20
Execution - 11/20
Characters - 15/20
Food for thought - 5/10
Extra points - 7/13
Total: 50/83
Tiger McGavin:
Action - 10/13
Well Writteness - 10/13
Sexiness - 5/8
Quincey Morrisness -11/14
Interestingness - 14/15
Unputdownableness - 16/20
Total: 66/83
Carl Jameson:
Falling Man +10 = 51/83
Atticus McCarthy:
Interestingness - 10/15
Quincey Morrisness - 10/18
Action-ness - 6/10
Execution - 12/20
Unputdownableness - 12/20
Forgettableness -2/0
Total: 48/83
William Clay:
Total: 39/83
Mycroft Webb:
Action - 8/12
Well Writteness - 13/16
Quincey Morrisness - 8/14
Interestingness - 14/15
Unputdownableness - 6/15
Characters - 10/11
Total: 59/83
Average for The Last Town on Earth: 52.16
Nominations
McGavin:
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Clay:
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
Jameson:
The 39 Steps - John Buchan
McCarthy:
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
Syme:
Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
The Hour of the Dragon - Robert Howard
The Hour of the Dragon - Robert Howard
Webb:
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Voting
There was a tie between Cloud Atlas and The 39 Steps which when put to the customary show of hands saw the seminal spy thriller selected as the next book by the QMBC.
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