Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296006 times)

Fran · « **Reply #720 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:40:30 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.

How far can we go?

Let's find out.

Enjoy!

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The Human Story

by James C. Davis

H, from AsHes

( Our History From The Stone Age To Today)

Gumtree · « **Reply #721 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:32:13 AM »

The YoungEinstein - the Advent of Relativity

Lewis Pyenson

on The Human StorY

PatH · « **Reply #722 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:00:01 PM »

Tales from the White Hart

Arthur C. Clarke, on RelativiTy

PatH · « **Reply #723 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:04:40 PM »

No, Gumtree, I don't have any background in Anglo Saxon language and literature, so I would definitely find Finn and Hengist too strong also, though possibly having some interesting bits. I have read Tolkien's translations of "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pearl", though.

lucky · « **Reply #724 on:** March 20, 2009, 08:37:44 PM »

The White Hart

Posting on T

Tender Is The Night ( Fitzgerald)

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #725 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:06:37 PM »

The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik

T --Tender is the Night

PatH · « **Reply #726 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:27:11 PM »

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez, on PolkA

pedln · « **Reply #727 on:** March 20, 2009, 09:51:58 PM »

Smilla’s Sense of Snow

by I don’t remember the Danish(?) author

posting on Dreams

Harriet Doerr – an author mentioned earlier. That name is so familiar, but I can’t think of thing she wrote.

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #728 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:00:04 PM »

Wrath of the Lion by Jack Higgins

from --Smilla’s Sense of Snow

PatH · « **Reply #729 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:26:00 PM »

Pedlin, it's Peter Hoeg. (My memory isn't better than yours, my bookshelf is serendipitously arranged.)

PatH · « **Reply #730 on:** March 20, 2009, 10:31:54 PM »

Nightwatch

Sergei Lukyanenko, on LioN

This is the first of a conflict-between-good-and-evil triology. Only a Russian could reduce this classic conflict to a bureaucrocy.

Gumtree · « **Reply #731 on:** March 20, 2009, 11:35:08 PM »

The Hand that Signed the Paper

Helen Demidenko

on NightwatcH

Demidenko's book caused something of a furore here. It won the prestigious Miles Franklin award but the author spoiled it all by lying about her background claiming the book was the true story of her family in Ukraine prior to their migration to Aust. It gained her notoriety and she now has a reputation of not being trustworthy. The whole case has become a classic Aussie hoax. Rather a good read though.

Frybabe · « **Reply #732 on:** March 21, 2009, 12:01:22 PM »

Revolt in the Desert
by T. E. Lawrence

on the R in Paper

This was, if I remember correctly, an abridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I read Seven Pillars when I was in high school. Dad thought I wouldn't get through the tome saying that it would be too dry. I was fascinated and hated to take the book back to the library. It had an oversized mousy brown cover with a pub date of 1926. That would have made it one of only a small number printed early on.

PatH · « **Reply #733 on:** March 21, 2009, 02:24:22 PM »

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, on DeserT

lucky · « **Reply #734 on:** March 21, 2009, 03:35:55 PM »

Treasure Island

Posting on D

Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde ( Robert Louis Stevenson)

hats · « **Reply #735 on:** March 21, 2009, 04:22:38 PM »

Daughter of The Queen of Sheba

by Jackie Lyden

Post on D

niecie · « **Reply #736 on:** March 21, 2009, 06:38:09 PM »

Audition

on ShebA

Barbara Walters

lucky · « **Reply #737 on:** March 21, 2009, 09:36:55 PM »

Audition

Posting on N

Netherland ( Joseph O'Neil)

lucky · « **Reply #738 on:** March 21, 2009, 10:17:41 PM »

Netherland

Posting on D

The Devil And Daniel Webster ( Stephen Benet?)

PatH · « **Reply #739 on:** March 21, 2009, 11:52:22 PM »

(The) Raphael Affair

Iain Pears, on WebsteR

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #740 on:** March 22, 2009, 12:38:19 AM »

Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard

from the r in Affair

Gumtree · « **Reply #741 on:** March 22, 2009, 02:30:23 AM »

Quote from: Frybabe on March 21, 2009, 12:01:22 PM

Revolt in the Desert
by T. E. Lawrence

on the R in Paper

This was, if I remember correctly, an abridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I read Seven Pillars when I was in high school. Dad thought I wouldn't get through the tome saying that it would be too dry. I was fascinated and hated to take the book back to the library. It had an oversized mousy brown cover with a pub date of 1926. That would have made it one of only a small number printed early on.

Frybabe: Yes, that would have been a fairly rare copy you had in your hands.

I have a copy of Lawrence and the Arabs written by Robert Graves which is from the same period. If has a faded (and grubby) mid brown cover, a first edition by Jonathon Cape pub 1927 -it has a number of illustrations - maps etc and photos on glossy paper with titles like Feisal's Army entering Wejh and Mule Transport near Aba El Lissan and Lawrence at Versailleswhere he is dressed in his full Arab clothing. The frontispiece is a photo of Lawrence of a bust of him by Eric Kennington which is rather impressive. I found the book about 30 years ago in a secondhand booksellers and bought it for next to nothing - there are a couple of newspaper cuttings stuck onto the inside of the front cover and the flyleaf - one detailing the Defeat of the Wahabi and dated 31/1/1928 and the other showing Lawrence on his motorbike (motor-cycle to be exact), which is from the Daily Mirror and dated 10.9.1930. Wouldn't part with it even though it could bring in considerably more than I paid for it.

Also have a copy of Seven Pillars and Revolt in the Desert but they are later editions and not so interesting as editions.

Gumtree · « **Reply #742 on:** March 22, 2009, 02:35:25 AM »

ThePickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

on riding the RaP

hats · « **Reply #743 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:54:05 AM »

Salem Falls

by Jodi Picoult

Post in paperS

PatH · « **Reply #744 on:** March 22, 2009, 06:21:07 AM »

(The) Late George Apley

George P. Marquand, on FalLs

hats · « **Reply #745 on:** March 22, 2009, 08:13:27 AM »

EvenTide

by Kent Haruf

Post on E

Gumtree · « **Reply #746 on:** March 22, 2009, 09:58:59 AM »

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

on EventidE

Gumtree · « **Reply #747 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:00:59 AM »

Hats I've been meaning to ask whether you had read The Book Thief and what you thought of it. It was very popular here about a year or so ago but now seems to have fallen off the radar.

hats · « **Reply #748 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:35:47 AM »

No, I haven't read "The Book Thief." I remember when it was so popular. I think it's still popular. I just couldn't get in to that book. I don't know why.

hats · « **Reply #749 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:37:27 AM »

Norman Rockwell biography

can't remember author

I read Norman Rockwell's biography years ago. I think he had already died. I've always loved his paintings.

hats · « **Reply #750 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:40:46 AM »

GumTree,

Have you read "The Book Thief?" Do you recommend it? I often think of giving it another try.

lucky · « **Reply #751 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:52:05 AM »

Norman Rockwell biography

Posting on L

Look Homeward Angel ( Thomas Wolfe)

hats · « **Reply #752 on:** March 22, 2009, 11:40:19 AM »

Lassie Come Home

by can't remember author

Post on L

niecie · « **Reply #753 on:** March 22, 2009, 11:56:07 AM »

Magnificent Obsession

on HoMe

Lloyd Douglas

hats · « **Reply #754 on:** March 22, 2009, 12:10:31 PM »

North Frederick Street

by John O'Hara

Post on N

Frybabe · « **Reply #755 on:** March 22, 2009, 01:38:32 PM »

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne

on the T from Street

hats · « **Reply #756 on:** March 22, 2009, 02:37:08 PM »

All This and Heaven Too

by......Fields

Post on A

Not sure of author

lucky · « **Reply #757 on:** March 22, 2009, 03:47:37 PM »

All This And Heaven Too

Posting on O

Of Lena Geyer ( Marcia Davenport)

This a great book for opera buffs as it is the biography of a fictional opera singer. Marcia Davenport, better known as the author of "The Valley of Decision", which as you may recall was made into a motion picture starring I believe, Greer Garson, was the daughter of Alma Gluck, a well known concert singer of the early 20th century. It is believed that she drew on her mother's life for this book.

hats · « **Reply #758 on:** March 22, 2009, 04:59:37 PM »

Odd Thomas

by Dean Koontz

Post on O

PatH · « **Reply #759 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:04:42 PM »

(The) Star Thrower

Loren Eiseley, on ThomaS

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