Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296030 times)

PatH · « **Reply #1160 on:** May 04, 2009, 01:39:11 PM »

Welcome to:

Title Mania!

Title Mania is a simple game which should be a lot of fun! NO peeking at titles and authors, this brain teaser is intended to rack the old grey cells: entirely from your own memory!

Simply give the title of a book which begins with the last letter of the title before it: *

Ex: The Good Earth:
Answer:How Green Was My Valley.
Next: A book title which starts with Y

* We'll ignore A, An, and The in titles for this game.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..

How far can we go?

Let's find out.

Enjoy!

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(The) Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco, on MandoliN

JudeS · « **Reply #1161 on:** May 04, 2009, 01:55:16 PM »

S from RoSe

Sex in History
by
Reay Tannahill

JoanK · « **Reply #1162 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:12:33 PM »

Rabbit, Run

by John Updike

Not a book I like, but any R in the storm.

I see you're into Patrick O'brien today, Gumtree.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1163 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:42:31 PM »

Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Stuart Gilbert

on the N from Run

This is about the night mail plane flights to Patagonia, Chili, Paraguay, and Argentina in the early days of commercial flight.

PatH, I really enjoyed The Name of the Rose, but I just couldn't get through Eco's Foucault's Pendulum

PatH · « **Reply #1164 on:** May 04, 2009, 02:52:22 PM »

The Two Towers

J. R. R. Tolkien, on FlighT

Frybabe, same here.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1165 on:** May 05, 2009, 03:04:10 AM »

The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brian

ON Two TowerS

JoanK: Another O'Brian -His books came to mind when I noticed my Beloved One reading one of them over the weekend.

Frybabe and PatH I had the same experience with Eco...great minds as they say.

I haven't read Saint-Exupery - will look around for something by him.

PatH · « **Reply #1166 on:** May 05, 2009, 11:07:10 AM »

Twilight Watch

Sergei Lukyanenko, on MaTe

This is the third in a trilogy by a Russian Science Fiction writer (I used Night Watch yesterday). He manages to turn the age-old conflict between good and evil into a matter of rule-ridden bureaucracy.

PatH · « **Reply #1167 on:** May 05, 2009, 11:12:00 AM »

I read Saint-Exupery's "Night Flight" as a teenager. If I remember correctly, he turns flying the mail into an almost mystic crusade. Of course, given the kind of planes he was flying, it was every bit as dangerous as he said. And I read "The Little Prince" when my children read it.

I've read all the O'Brian books except the unfinished fragment. Ther'e very good.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1168 on:** May 05, 2009, 12:01:35 PM »

PatH, My sister gave me two detective mysteries by Russian writer Boris Akunin and translated by Andrew Bromfield, The Winter Queen and The Death of Achilles. The stories are set in the late 1880s and include all the prerevolution political intrigue, and paranoia. These are part of Akunin's Fandorin mystery series. International bestsellers. Worth reading.

Off to look up Sergei Lukyanenko.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1169 on:** May 05, 2009, 12:06:29 PM »

Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

on the H from Watch

Fran · « **Reply #1170 on:** May 05, 2009, 12:08:58 PM »

Hunting Eichmann

by Neal Bascomb

H, from WatcH

Frybabe · « **Reply #1171 on:** May 05, 2009, 12:18:54 PM »

PahH, FYI when I looked up Sergei Lukyanenko on Amazon, I noticed that he now has a fourth book in the series called The Final Watch.

PatH · « **Reply #1172 on:** May 05, 2009, 01:07:05 PM »

No Immunity

Susan Dunlap, on EichmanN

PatH · « **Reply #1173 on:** May 05, 2009, 01:13:34 PM »

Frybabe, I have "The Death of Achilles" but haven't yet read it.

Lukyanenko is more fantasy than sci-fi--full of magic and witches and vampires and spells, with a huge cast, and a very Russian way of thinking. I gobbled up "Nightwatch" and "Daywatch", but bogged down in "Twilight Watch". They're being made into movies. I've seen "Nightwatch". It doesn't make much sense unless you've already read the book.

JoanK · « **Reply #1174 on:** May 05, 2009, 02:58:51 PM »

Thousand Splended Suns

probably already been done, but I can't remember it.

PatH · « **Reply #1175 on:** May 05, 2009, 03:46:17 PM »

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust, on SunS. That's probably been done too, but I can't remember it.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1176 on:** May 05, 2009, 05:00:37 PM »

The Yosemite Murders
by Dennis McDougal

on the Y from Way

PatH · « **Reply #1177 on:** May 05, 2009, 07:54:39 PM »

Ride of Your Life

Lyn St James, on MurdeRs

Reminiscences of a woman Indy 500 racer.

Fran · « **Reply #1178 on:** May 05, 2009, 09:07:01 PM »

The Founders On The Founders

by John P. Kaminski

F, from LiFe

JudeS · « **Reply #1179 on:** May 05, 2009, 11:13:50 PM »

R from FoundeR

Red Chameleon
by
Stuart Kaminsky

This is the first of a fantastic series about a Russian police Inspector in Moscow . There are 15 Inspector Rostikov novels that combine mystery, politics and personal foibles.
Kaminsky has won every national and international prize for his 50 mystery novels but I got attached to the Russian series since it went so much in depth about the day to day life of the Russian citizen and their problems. Besides they are such page turners that I usually finish them in a day or two.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1180 on:** May 06, 2009, 01:54:23 AM »

Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories

Vladimir Nabokov

on ... ChameleoN

Lots of interesting titles mentioned above - will have to look in to these current Russians though I'll give the Lukyanenko fantasy a miss. Right now I'm deep into The Historian by Kostova and beginning to wonder whether I'll finish it. I can't take much vampire lore.

Fran · « **Reply #1181 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:02:55 AM »

Imperium

by Robert Harris

I, from Stories

Frybabe · « **Reply #1182 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:34:43 AM »

The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley

from the M in Imperium

Gumtree · « **Reply #1183 on:** May 06, 2009, 10:57:48 AM »

The Nonesuch

Georgette Heyer

on ...AvaloN

Takes me back to my girlhood...

PatH · « **Reply #1184 on:** May 06, 2009, 11:19:02 AM »

Her Majesty's Spymaster

Stephen Budiansky, on NonesucH

The subtitle tells it: "Elizabeth I, sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage". It's quite interesting.

Fran · « **Reply #1185 on:** May 06, 2009, 08:27:48 PM »

Ramses11

by T. G. H. James

R, from SpymasteR

Gumtree · « **Reply #1186 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:14:45 PM »

12 Edmonstone Street

David Malouf

on Rameses II

Autobiographical piece by Aussie - Malouf has amassed a creditable array of work and has just released a new novel which revisits the Iliad - it's been well received and my brand-new copy is right on top of my TBR stack. Malouf's writing can be very poetic.

PatH · « **Reply #1187 on:** May 06, 2009, 09:43:30 PM »

There are Doors

Gene Wolfe, on StreeT

Fantasy--the doors are between parallel realities.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1188 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:02:11 PM »

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

on there Are DooRs

PatH · « **Reply #1189 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:12:21 PM »

Northwest Smith

C. L. Moore, on ResurrectioN

It's 1930s sci-fi

Gumtree · « **Reply #1190 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:22:59 PM »

How Late It Was, How Late

James Kelman

on....Smith

Gumtree · « **Reply #1191 on:** May 07, 2009, 12:36:54 PM »

PatH Did you know that a new J R R Tolkien has been released this week? Title is The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - it seems to be Tolkien's reworking of the the Lay of the Volsungs and the Lay of Gudrun and derived from his study of the old Norse legends ...employing a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda

I bought a copy today - it looks interesting - there are 800 stanzas and supporting notes and commentary...375 pages in all...now all I need do is find the time to read it...not really a quick read but for one who likes to read the old sagas for fun (as do you) it should be a doddle

JudeS · « **Reply #1192 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:10:23 PM »

T from LaTe

Tarnished Icons
by
Stuart Kaminsky

PatH · « **Reply #1193 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:17:27 PM »

(A) Shropshire Lad

A. E. Houseman, on IconS

PatH · « **Reply #1194 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:24:47 PM »

Gumtree, thanks for alerting me. I had seen the review in Tuesday's Washington Post; they quoted a bit which seems very good indeed. I'm a little suspicious of "reworkings", but I think I'll make an exception here.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1195 on:** May 07, 2009, 01:55:55 PM »

The Devine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

on the D from Lad

PatH · « **Reply #1196 on:** May 07, 2009, 07:09:06 PM »

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot, on ComeDy

Gumtree · « **Reply #1197 on:** May 08, 2009, 11:35:47 AM »

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

on Daniel DerondA

Fran · « **Reply #1198 on:** May 08, 2009, 11:35:48 AM »

Agent Zigzag

by Ben Macintyre

A, from DerondA

Frybabe · « **Reply #1199 on:** May 08, 2009, 12:54:07 PM »

Ghosts of Gettysburg: Walking on Hallowed Ground
by Dave Oester and Sharon Oester

on the G from Zigzag

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Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296030 times)