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I thought the toughest categories were sports, poem, and short story. As I mentioned above, my preliminary "big board" only had 2 poems - Paradise Lost and Rime of the Ancient Mariner. For short story, I thought there was only one good choice (The Dead), and then about a billion B- picks, including the Hemingways and the O'Connors and the Faulkners. For sports I considered DeLillo's End Zone, but figured not many people here had read it. I didn't really have a second choice for Rabbit, and the only question was whether I wanted it in sports or series. I'm surprised at the lack of love for the Updike pick - it seems like the kind of book that would be very popular on this board.
Somebody asked for my pre-draft top 5, here it is:
1. James Joyce, The Dead
2. John Milton, Paradise Lost
3. JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
4. Shakespeare, Richard II/Henry IV Parts 1 and 2/Henry V (series, obviously)
5. The Gospel of John (biography)
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