Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296029 times)

JudeS · « **Reply #1200 on:** May 08, 2009, 01:23:20 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!

Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny

D from GrounD

Defend and Betray
by
Anne Perry

PatH · « **Reply #1201 on:** May 09, 2009, 05:17:50 PM »

Aeneid

Vergil, on BetraY

Gumtree · « **Reply #1202 on:** May 10, 2009, 01:12:02 AM »

Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brian

on AeneiD

Frybabe · « **Reply #1203 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:18:05 PM »

Desert Flower
by Waris Dirie

The is her story. She is a model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa and a native of Somalia.

on the D from Island

Gumtree · « **Reply #1204 on:** May 10, 2009, 12:44:25 PM »

Rich Man Poor Man

Irwin Shaw

on Desert FloweR

PatH · « **Reply #1205 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:01:55 PM »

No But I Saw the Movie

Peter deVries, on MaN

I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel for "n"s. I've taken to browsing my shelves.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1206 on:** May 10, 2009, 08:13:51 PM »

Evan's Gate
by Rhys Bowen

on the E from Movie

This is one of the Constable Evans Mystery series. Set in Wales.
I bought this for my Mom who is Welsh, but she didn't finish it. Apparently she didn't like so many twists and turns (or more than one subplot going on at once). One of these days I am going to borrow it back from her to read.

PatH · « **Reply #1207 on:** May 10, 2009, 10:43:20 PM »

Tittivulus

(or, the Verbiage Collector), Michael Ayrton, on GaTe

Tittivulus is a minor demon who has been assigned the task of collecting the excess foolish words of mankind. Eventually the task gets too big for him and something has to be done. It's been almost 50 years since I read it, so I don't remember it well, but it was pretty funny.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1208 on:** May 11, 2009, 06:56:23 AM »

PatH - I think you should win first prize for that one!

Frybabe · « **Reply #1209 on:** May 11, 2009, 11:16:44 AM »

I wanted to look up Tittivulus last night, but my computer was acting up, go real, reeeeeeaaaaalllll slow on me. It was the same way this morning, so I shut down everything, including the modem (my suspect). That seems to have worked. It is fine now. I believe I will have to go modem shopping in the near future, but am putting it off as long as I can.

The Spook's Apprentice: No.1
by Joe Delaney

on the S from Tittivulus

Gumtree · « **Reply #1210 on:** May 11, 2009, 11:55:06 AM »

Children of the Sun

Morris West

on ..Spooks ApprentiCe

- had a big day and am weary so took the easy option tonight

Fran · « **Reply #1211 on:** May 11, 2009, 12:44:24 PM »

Now The Drum Of War

by Robert Roper

N, from SuN

PatH · « **Reply #1212 on:** May 11, 2009, 07:58:19 PM »

Rosemarie

Erich Kuby, on WaR

JudeS · « **Reply #1213 on:** May 11, 2009, 11:48:35 PM »

I from RosemarIe

I, Claudius
by
Robert Graves

Frybabe · « **Reply #1214 on:** May 11, 2009, 11:59:03 PM »

Sahara
by Clive Cussler

on the S from Claudius

PatH · « **Reply #1215 on:** May 12, 2009, 12:16:40 AM »

Andivius Hedulio

Edward Lucas White, on saharA

PatH · « **Reply #1216 on:** May 12, 2009, 12:23:39 AM »

I'm sure Andivius Hedulio isn't really a very good book, but it made quite an impression on me when I read it as a child. Andivius Hedulio is a roman nobleman in the time of Commodus who, falsely accused of a crime, has to flee, and has many adventures before eventually clearing himself. The book is packed with details of life and politics of the time.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1217 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:03:58 AM »

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

on Andivius HeduliO - haven't even heard of that one...

PatH · « **Reply #1218 on:** May 12, 2009, 08:47:19 AM »

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy, on LucindA

mrssherlock · « **Reply #1219 on:** May 12, 2009, 11:16:41 AM »

Gumtree · « **Reply #1220 on:** May 12, 2009, 12:01:09 PM »

South of My Days

Judith Wright

on All thePretty HorseS

This poem just popped into my head the moment I saw the S. Judith Wright was a foremost Aussie poet, interested in environment issues and preservation of wildlife - she also knew what made her country and its people.

PatH · « **Reply #1221 on:** May 12, 2009, 01:39:55 PM »

Science Fiction: the Illustrated Encyclopedia

John Clute, on DayS

This is a very useful book, but has one of the most inadequate indexes I've ever seen.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1222 on:** May 12, 2009, 02:50:38 PM »

All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren

on the A from encyclopedia

PatH · « **Reply #1223 on:** May 12, 2009, 09:54:56 PM »

(The) Nine Mile Walk

Harry Kemelman, on MeN

This is a book of short detective stories by the author of a series involving a Rabbi as detective (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, etc). The short stories don't feature the Rabbi, but the title story is a little masterpiece, in which we start with a sentence (Nine miles is a long way to walk, especially in the rain.) and deduce that a murder is about to occur.

Fran · « **Reply #1224 on:** May 13, 2009, 10:23:51 AM »

Keepers of the Keys of Heaven

by Robert Collins

K, from WalK

PatH · « **Reply #1225 on:** May 13, 2009, 10:27:25 AM »

Nine Tomorrows

Isaac Asimov, on HeaveN

Gumtree · « **Reply #1226 on:** May 13, 2009, 11:49:05 AM »

The Small Woman

Alan Burgess

Biography of Gladys Aylward - missionary in China...

on Nine TomorrowS

PatH · « **Reply #1227 on:** May 13, 2009, 12:59:33 PM »

(The) Nine Tailors

Dorothy L. Sayers, on WomaN

I'm getting desperate for Ns here.

JudeS · « **Reply #1228 on:** May 13, 2009, 01:55:28 PM »

R from TailoRs

Roget's Thesaurus
by
Roget

PatH · « **Reply #1229 on:** May 13, 2009, 08:48:54 PM »

Good one, Jude.

Secret and Urgent

Fletcher Pratt, on ThesauruS

This is a historical story of codes and ciphers, what was invented when, how they work, how to decipher them, etc. It's way out of date for modern stuff (I read it when I was growing up, and snagged my parents' copy from the estate) but if you want to know something like how Napoleon's spies enciphered their messages and who figured out how to read them, it's pretty entertaining.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1230 on:** May 14, 2009, 09:31:13 AM »

Travelling Sketches

Anthony Trollope

on Secret and UrgenT

PatH · « **Reply #1231 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:39:24 AM »

Swan Song

John Galsworthy, on SketcheS

Frybabe · « **Reply #1232 on:** May 14, 2009, 12:09:05 PM »

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

on the G from Song

PatH · « **Reply #1233 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:41:53 PM »

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann, on GatsBy

Fran · « **Reply #1234 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:56:26 AM »

The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family

by Laurence Leamer

K, from BuddenbrooKs

JudeS · « **Reply #1235 on:** May 15, 2009, 01:17:28 PM »

Y from FamilY

Getting Desperate-going to my professional books.

Youth and Exploitation
by
McEvoy and Erickson

Gumtree · « **Reply #1236 on:** May 16, 2009, 12:22:36 PM »

None But The Lonely Heart

Richard LLewellyn

on ...ExploitatioN

Made into a film with Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant...long ago

Frybabe · « **Reply #1237 on:** May 16, 2009, 12:58:46 PM »

Three Hands in the Fountain
by Lindsey Davis

One of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries, this one is centered on the public water works and aquaduct systems providing water to Rome.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1238 on:** May 17, 2009, 12:49:09 AM »

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

on ...FountaiN

of course, in English this one is published as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame but I'm runing out of N's

PatH · « **Reply #1239 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:14:56 AM »

In Chancery

John Galsworthy, on ParIs

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