Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296034 times)

PatH · « **Reply #1240 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:16:47 AM »

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

Other languages are fair. I've got a German title or two waiting their chance.

JudeS · « **Reply #1241 on:** May 17, 2009, 01:25:06 PM »

On the R in ChanceRy

Rent Two Films and Let's talk in the Morning
by
John & Jan G. Hesley

(Bet no one ever heard of that one)

PatH · « **Reply #1242 on:** May 17, 2009, 06:10:57 PM »

(The) Ghost Brigades

John Scalzi, on MorninG

You're right, Jude, I never heard of it

Gumtree · « **Reply #1243 on:** May 18, 2009, 06:14:52 AM »

Me, either Jude -...

The Silver Castle

Clive James

on Ghost BrigadeS

PatH · « **Reply #1244 on:** May 18, 2009, 10:54:39 AM »

(The) Long Divorce

Edmund Crispin, on CastLe

Gumtree · « **Reply #1245 on:** May 18, 2009, 12:29:40 PM »

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

on DivorcE

PatH · « **Reply #1246 on:** May 18, 2009, 12:42:27 PM »

Mistress to an Age: a Life of Madame de Stael

J. Christopher Herold, on EndgaMe

She was a pretty interesting person.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1247 on:** May 18, 2009, 01:06:42 PM »

Latecomers

Anita Brookner

on...Madame de StaeL

PatH, I haven't read that biog of Madame de Stael but she was interesting - influential in her own era.

JudeS · « **Reply #1248 on:** May 18, 2009, 02:10:37 PM »

R from LatecomeRs

(The) Red and the Black
by
Stendhal

Frybabe · « **Reply #1249 on:** May 18, 2009, 02:26:39 PM »

Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester

on the K from Black

PatH · « **Reply #1250 on:** May 18, 2009, 02:34:45 PM »

(The)39 Steps

John Buchan, on 1883

Fran · « **Reply #1251 on:** May 19, 2009, 09:47:16 AM »

Playing For Pizza

by John Grisham

P, StePs

Gumtree · « **Reply #1252 on:** May 19, 2009, 11:58:23 AM »

On Playing for PizzA

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel
MacMillan & Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1908

This copy is now 101 years old - in good condition though the pages are a trifle foxed.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1253 on:** May 19, 2009, 02:16:10 PM »

DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME
by JAMES GURNEY

There is a whole series of these. I just love the name.

from the D in Wonderland.

PatH · « **Reply #1254 on:** May 19, 2009, 09:04:17 PM »

Mystery Mile

Margery Allingham, on TiMe

Frybabe · « **Reply #1255 on:** May 19, 2009, 11:41:22 PM »

Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard

on the E from Mile

PatH · « **Reply #1256 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:13:27 AM »

(The) Nursing Mother's Companion

Kathleen Huggins, on SuN

I bet no one else had that on their list. I'm visiting my new grandson.

PatH · « **Reply #1257 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:15:17 AM »

Frybabe, have you read Empire of the Sun? No wonder Ballard's Sci-Fi is so morose.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1258 on:** May 20, 2009, 06:11:00 AM »

Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

on ...CompanioN

Frybabe · « **Reply #1259 on:** May 20, 2009, 08:34:57 AM »

No I haven't read it Empire of the Sun, Pat. I haven't seen the movie either. The movie came up in a discussion (forget which) some time ago, regarding the Japanese invasion of the China, Burma, etc. Ballard's novel is based on his experience. He and his family were interred in a Japanese prison camp, I think near Shanghai, during the war. Mr. Ballard just passed away this April at age 78.

PatH · « **Reply #1260 on:** May 20, 2009, 01:59:50 PM »

Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy, on WolF

PatH · « **Reply #1261 on:** May 20, 2009, 02:05:52 PM »

Frybabe, I haven't seen the movie, but in the book, Ballard was interned separately from his parents, and they weren't reunited until after the war. I think it happened that way, although the book seems to be only partly realistic.

JudeS · « **Reply #1262 on:** May 20, 2009, 07:01:24 PM »

Somehow my message disappeared.
I wanted to mention that "Empire of the Sun" is one of my favorite movies. Stephen Spielberg who produced it also said it was one of the movies he was most proud of. It is one of the few movies that gives an in-depth view of the effects of war on a young boy in a Japanese prison camp and how he copes.
Before seeing it I never understood the Kamikaze Japanese Pilots, who were no more than 17 themselves.
A fascinating movie.

On D from Crowd

(The) Don Flows Down to the Sea
by
Shalikov

Gumtree · « **Reply #1263 on:** May 21, 2009, 01:16:28 AM »

An Accidental Man

Iris Murdoch

on ....to the SEA

PatH · « **Reply #1264 on:** May 21, 2009, 09:34:06 AM »

(The) Naked Ape

Desmond Morris, on MaN

Frybabe, several people have recommended the movie to me. Guess I'd better actually watch it.

Fran · « **Reply #1265 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:53:09 AM »

Pilgrimage

a Memoir of Poland & Rome

by James A. Michener

Frybabe · « **Reply #1266 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:34:18 AM »

Good-Bye to All That
by Robert Graves

from the G in Pilgrimage

PatH, I read The Naked Ape years ago when it first came out. I remember finding it interesting at the time.

kidsal · « **Reply #1267 on:** May 21, 2009, 03:47:37 PM »

Grapes of Wrath

from the W in Dust Bowl

Gumtree · « **Reply #1268 on:** May 22, 2009, 01:53:57 AM »

Hamlet

Shakespeare

on WratH

PatH · « **Reply #1269 on:** May 22, 2009, 02:19:25 AM »

Tents of Wickedness

Peter deVries, on HamleT

Gumtree · « **Reply #1270 on:** May 22, 2009, 12:18:43 PM »

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad

on WickednesS

JudeS · « **Reply #1271 on:** May 22, 2009, 12:45:18 PM »

On T from AgenT

(The) Time Machine
by
H.G.Wells

PatH · « **Reply #1272 on:** May 22, 2009, 11:06:44 PM »

Evil Under the Sun

Agatha Christie, on MachinE

Gumtree · « **Reply #1273 on:** May 23, 2009, 02:40:01 AM »

Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook

Andrew Kippis

on Evil Under the SuN

And I just bet that no-one here has read that one !

Frybabe · « **Reply #1274 on:** May 23, 2009, 09:38:24 AM »

Knights Templar: The Essential History
by Stephen Howarth

on the K from Cook

Gumtree · « **Reply #1275 on:** May 23, 2009, 12:33:37 PM »

Youth and Age

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

on ....HistorY

PatH · « **Reply #1276 on:** May 23, 2009, 05:57:29 PM »

(The) Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Soltzhenitsyn, on AGe

JudeS · « **Reply #1277 on:** May 23, 2009, 08:11:19 PM »

On the O
O, Wilderness
by
Willa Cather

PatH · « **Reply #1278 on:** May 23, 2009, 08:57:56 PM »

(The) Stars

H. A. Rey, on WildernesS

This is a reworking of the traditional way of viewing constellations by the author of "Curious George". I don't find it very useful, but I had already been looking at the constellations for decades by the time I saw it.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1279 on:** May 24, 2009, 01:49:32 AM »

The Sea Gull

Anton Chekhov

on STARS

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