Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296040 times)

bellemere · « **Reply #1440 on:** June 16, 2009, 09:23:06 AM »

Alice, Let's Eat
by Calvin Trillin
on A in polyhedra

PatH · « **Reply #1441 on:** June 16, 2009, 09:38:45 AM »

Tales of the South Pacific

James Michener, on EaT

Fran · « **Reply #1442 on:** June 16, 2009, 12:03:16 PM »

The Class

bt Eric Segal

C, from PacifiC

PatH · « **Reply #1443 on:** June 16, 2009, 09:58:52 PM »

(A) Stillness at Appomattox

Bruce Catton, on ClasS

X is optional, but here's your big chance if you've got one.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1444 on:** June 16, 2009, 10:31:15 PM »

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
by Robin Waterfield

on the X from AppomattiX

PatH · « **Reply #1445 on:** June 16, 2009, 11:25:24 PM »

Gulliver's Travels

Johnathan Swift, on AGe

I really set that up for you, didn't I, Frybabe, but it wasn't deliberate.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1446 on:** June 17, 2009, 04:10:11 AM »

PatH So you and Joan come from a famous stable - I googled your Dad - very impressive. Which came first with him - the patents or the math?

Snow

Orhan Pamuk

Gulliver's TravelS

PatH · « **Reply #1447 on:** June 17, 2009, 07:52:04 AM »

(The) Word for World is Forest

Ursula K. LeGuin, on SnoW

PatH · « **Reply #1448 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:20:00 AM »

Gumtree, his career was in Patent Law, which he entered by the then common route of getting a B.S. in Physics, going to work at the Patent Office, and getting a law degree at night. He got a Master's degree in Math at night too, but the math was mostly a hobby, and many of the math papers were written after he retired.

It was a good family for bookworms, as he loved to share his wide-ranging interests with us, and our mother, who had been a librarian, filled in the rest.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1449 on:** June 17, 2009, 10:50:15 AM »

Thanks for that Pat - amazing what one can achieve with some hard work and dedication. You must be very proud of him.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1450 on:** June 17, 2009, 10:54:04 AM »

Taras Bulba

Nikolai Gogol

on ...ForesT

PatH · « **Reply #1451 on:** June 17, 2009, 03:08:15 PM »

Asterix le Gaulois

or, if you prefer, Asterix the Gaul

Goscinny and Uderzo

On BulbA

PatH · « **Reply #1452 on:** June 17, 2009, 03:14:23 PM »

This is the first of a series of French hardback comic books about a small outpost in Gaul, unconquered by Julius Caesar, who sometimes appears, and the hero Asterix who lives there. They are full of social satire, political satire (most of which I don't get), jokes, puns in French and occasionally in Latin (I don't get these either). They are available in English, but seem funnier in French, maybe because you have to work so hard to read them.

JudeS · « **Reply #1453 on:** June 17, 2009, 05:22:41 PM »

Obviously I prefer the L from Gaul .I can think of a whole slew of LLLLLLLLLs

Little Men
by
Louisa May Alcott

PatH · « **Reply #1454 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:48:22 PM »

Curses, another N.

New Maps of Hell

Kingsley Amis, on MeN

It's an analysis of Science Fiction writing up to 1960.

Fran · « **Reply #1455 on:** June 17, 2009, 08:48:43 PM »

Now, Discover Your Strengths

by, Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton

N, from meN

PatH · « **Reply #1456 on:** June 17, 2009, 09:01:50 PM »

Horrors! One of us wasted an N! Anyway, this gives a choice of O, E, or S.

Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes

Stephen Jay Gould, on StrengtHs

Gumtree · « **Reply #1457 on:** June 18, 2009, 05:18:18 AM »

Scaramouche

Rafael Sabatini

on Horse's ToeS

I must re-read Scaramouche someday...

Frybabe · « **Reply #1458 on:** June 18, 2009, 11:27:46 AM »

Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

from the H in ScaramoucHe

in keeping with our discussion group, The Night Villa.

PatH · « **Reply #1459 on:** June 18, 2009, 06:11:54 PM »

(A) Murder is Announced

Agatha Christie, on HerculaneuM

Gumtree · « **Reply #1460 on:** June 19, 2009, 05:06:53 AM »

Daisy Miller

Henry James

on announceD

Frybabe · « **Reply #1461 on:** June 19, 2009, 09:12:03 AM »

Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust

on the R from MilleR

Fran · « **Reply #1462 on:** June 19, 2009, 10:46:21 AM »

The Betrayal

by Beverly Lewis

T, from PasT

PatH · « **Reply #1463 on:** June 19, 2009, 11:20:57 AM »

Life With Father

Clarence Day, on BetrayaL

Fran · « **Reply #1464 on:** June 19, 2009, 12:12:46 PM »

Romeo and Juliet

(Forgotten Books)

by William Shakespeare

R, from FatheR

PatH · « **Reply #1465 on:** June 19, 2009, 02:27:33 PM »

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne, on JulieT

JudeS · « **Reply #1466 on:** June 19, 2009, 06:54:00 PM »

On E from TalEs

Ethan Frome
by
Edith Wharton

PatH · « **Reply #1467 on:** June 19, 2009, 07:32:41 PM »

Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson, on FroMe

Frybabe · « **Reply #1468 on:** June 20, 2009, 01:30:25 AM »

Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
by Ernesto De Carolis and Giovanni Patricelli

from the V in OverDriVe

Gumtree · « **Reply #1469 on:** June 20, 2009, 08:55:53 AM »

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

on ...HerculaneuM

PatH · « **Reply #1470 on:** June 20, 2009, 09:36:17 AM »

(A) Severed Head

Iris Murdoch, on FlosS

Frybabe · « **Reply #1471 on:** June 20, 2009, 10:37:43 AM »

Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot

on the D from HeaD

Fran · « **Reply #1472 on:** June 20, 2009, 02:48:52 PM »

American Wife

by, Curtis Sittenfeld

A, from DerondA

JudeS · « **Reply #1473 on:** June 20, 2009, 03:51:12 PM »

Yea an F -from WiFe

Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley

PatH · « **Reply #1474 on:** June 20, 2009, 04:32:31 PM »

Yes, but that sticks me with an N.

(The) New York Times Cookbook

Craig Claiborne, ed, on FrankensteiN

Frybabe · « **Reply #1475 on:** June 20, 2009, 06:06:34 PM »

Krazy Kat
by George Herriman

on the K from CookbooK

Remembering the old cartoons.

PatH · « **Reply #1476 on:** June 20, 2009, 06:56:29 PM »

Good one, Frybabe!

Topaze

Marcel Pagnol, on KaT

This was a book before it was a movie. We had to read it in French class. Now you've got a choice of 3 letters.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1477 on:** June 20, 2009, 11:37:54 PM »

I'll take that lovely Z

Zapata

John Steinbeck

JudeS · « **Reply #1478 on:** June 21, 2009, 01:27:27 PM »

On A

The Art of War
by
Sun Tzu

Fran · « **Reply #1479 on:** June 21, 2009, 02:55:57 PM »

The Romanovs

by Lindsey Hughes

R, from waR

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