Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 295965 times)

ALF43 · « **Reply #160 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:56:39 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 Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** 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

THE GARGOYLE

-by Andrew Davidson

Has anyone read this book yet? I think I chose it from the Bookmarks Magazine. It was weird. It was a story about a severely burned accident victim's recovery. A woman (she is a sculptress) comes to him while he is in the hospital claiming that they were lovers in medieval Germany.
I would be interested in someone else's take on this novel. Actually as weird as it was, I liked it.

PatH · « **Reply #161 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:03:42 AM »

Contact

Carl Sagan, on LaC

Gumtree · « **Reply #162 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:06:18 AM »

PatH: About Frances Trollope - I knew she was Anthony's mum but feel I should have read something by her - not so...I imagine all I really know about her was gleaned from a biography of Anthony. I think he took his work ethic from her by rising very early and writing certain amount before breakfast...

Apart from Domestic Manners of the Americans - Wikipedia says she wrote:

...strong novels of social protest, Michael Armstrong:Factory Boybegan publication in 1840 and was the first industrial novel to be published in Britain. Other socially conscious novels included Jonathan Jefferson Whitelaw, 1836, the first anti slavery novel, influencing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) about the evils of slavery and The Vicar of Wrexhill, which took on church corruption. Possibly her greatest work is the Widow Barnaby Trilogy which set a pattern followed by anthony in the frequent use of sequels in his oeuvre.

In later years she continued to write novels and books on miscellaneous subjects, writing in all over 100 volumes. Though possessed of considerable powers of observation and a sharp and caustic wit, such an output was fatal to permanent literary success and few of her books are now read.

Maybe I should try the library for the Widow Barnaby...
Hope this post doesn't intrude into the game too much.

PatH · « **Reply #163 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:06:32 AM »

Oops, I missed the new page. In Rubbish, that could cost me points.

I never heard of Gargoyle, but it sounds like my kind of thing.

PatH · « **Reply #164 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:08:48 AM »

Gumtree, half the point of the game is those little side bits. Glad to be enlightened about Mrs. Trollope.

ALF43 · « **Reply #165 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:11:04 AM »

It is very explicit Pat and extremely bizarre. It has a supernatural, grotesque and mysterious weight to it.

Gumtree · « **Reply #166 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:22:24 AM »

To the Island (on ContacT)

Randolph Stow (Aussie) This one deals with the confrontation between the black and white cultures and questions the value of European culture as it is imposed upon the Aborigines. It was written around 1960? and is particularly meaningful here today.

nancymc · « **Reply #167 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:30:54 AM »

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

D from To the IslanD

Gumtree · « **Reply #168 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:50:05 AM »

Nostromo

Joseph Conrad

on Dombey & Son

It's a long time since I looked at either of those...

ALF43 · « **Reply #169 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:35:26 AM »

Ordinary People

-by Judith Guest

PatH · « **Reply #170 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:46:07 AM »

Elephants can Remember

Agatha Christie, not one of her best, on peoplE

Fran · « **Reply #171 on:** February 25, 2009, 11:54:49 AM »

Rome's Greatest Defeat

by Adrian Murdoch

r, from remember

PatH · « **Reply #172 on:** February 25, 2009, 12:15:38 PM »

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume, on DefeaT

Fran · « **Reply #173 on:** February 25, 2009, 12:19:10 PM »

The Golden Cup

by Belva Plain

g, from nothing

PatH · « **Reply #174 on:** February 25, 2009, 12:21:38 PM »

ParadiseLost

Milton, on CuP

Fran · « **Reply #175 on:** February 25, 2009, 12:43:27 PM »

Three Cups of Tea

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

T, from Lost

nancymc · « **Reply #176 on:** February 25, 2009, 02:29:09 PM »

Absolution by Murder

Peter Tremayne

A from Three cups of Tea

Janice · « **Reply #177 on:** February 25, 2009, 02:35:25 PM »

A Raison In The Sun

PatH · « **Reply #178 on:** February 25, 2009, 03:57:41 PM »

Njal's Saga

Author unknown, on SuN

JoanK · « **Reply #179 on:** February 25, 2009, 04:39:29 PM »

ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie.

This looks like fun. Are we not allowed to repeat?

ANNIE · « **Reply #180 on:** February 25, 2009, 04:40:36 PM »

Absolom, Absolom by Wm Faulkner

PatH · « **Reply #181 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:06:12 PM »

Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson, on AbsaloM

PatH · « **Reply #182 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:07:24 PM »

JoanK, I'm assuming it's like Rubbish, where you can't repeat your own or someone else's title.

ginny · « **Reply #183 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:12:56 PM »

Everyone Worth Knowing, from Mona Lisa OverdrivE

Joan, I think it's more fun if we try not to repeat, I guess after several hundred posts it may be inevitable, as most people will not read back that far. I'd say no repeats in 40 posts (that's a page here).

PatH · « **Reply #184 on:** February 25, 2009, 05:52:52 PM »

Gilgamesh

on KnowinG

Gumtree · « **Reply #185 on:** February 25, 2009, 06:44:25 PM »

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

on GilgamesH

PatH : you quite took me by surprise with Burnt Njal's Saga...what next will you come up with.

PatH · « **Reply #186 on:** February 25, 2009, 06:56:46 PM »

Quote from: Gumtree on February 25, 2009, 06:44:25 PM

PatH : you quite took me by surprise with Burnt Njal's Saga...what next will you come up with.

That depends on how desperate I get. How about:

Egil's Saga

probably written by Snorri Sturluson, on TalE

PatH · « **Reply #187 on:** February 25, 2009, 07:11:29 PM »

Egil was a real piece of work; he committed his first murder when he was six, and his last when he was blind and dying, with lots in between, but he was also highly regarded as a poet. His best one is a lament for the death of his two sons, in which he complains that Odin has given him the gift of poetry, but taken away his sons, yet it is the gift of writing poetry that helps him cope with his loss. Most of them don't do much for me.

Gumtree, have you read "The Handmaid's Tale"?

Gumtree · « **Reply #188 on:** February 25, 2009, 08:10:03 PM »

PatH: The Icelandic sagas are pretty bloodthirsty - to say the least - so full of conflict and angst. The heroes besetting sin seems to be their pride coupled with a touchy fuse and Egil Skallagrimsson is no exception - doesn't he try to make out he is a poor misunderstood fellow who loves his country and his fellowmen.

Interestingly, Icelanders all love their genealogy and can tell who's related to whom right back to settlement - thanks to Ari the Learned who was the first to write it all down.

And yes, I have read The Handmaid's Tale - three or four times. Twice for myself and then I did it with a couple of F2F groups. This was several years ago around the time it first came out. Atwood's science fictioney style is not my favourite but the story is absolutely compelling and so pertinent today. The scenario she sets up to subjugate women could so easily be achieved overnight - all with the help of our trusty computers....

Gumtree · « **Reply #189 on:** February 25, 2009, 08:12:10 PM »

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

on Egil's SagA

PatH · « **Reply #190 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:25:59 PM »

Equal Rites

Terry Pratchett, on InnocencE

PatH · « **Reply #191 on:** February 25, 2009, 09:54:04 PM »

Gumtree, everything you say about the sagas is true. I have no idea why I like them, given that almost everything about them is totally different from my own personality. But for some reason I do, and am even willing to skim through three chapters of genealogy to get to the point. Egil seems to be outside the norm, though--pretty pathological.

Since I'm a Sci-Fi fan, that aspect of "The Handmaid's Tale" was congenial to me.

Frybabe · « **Reply #192 on:** February 25, 2009, 10:31:36 PM »

Sense and SensibilitY
by Jane Austin

from Equal Rites

Gumtree · « **Reply #193 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:28:07 AM »

The Years

Virginia Woolf - During her lifetime this book was her most popular work - an indictment on Victorianism...powerful writing but nowadays it is overlooked in favour of a couple of her others...

on Sense and SensibilitY

Gumtree · « **Reply #194 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:36:57 AM »

Quote from: PatH on February 25, 2009, 09:54:04 PM

Gumtree,
Since I'm a Sci-Fi fan, that aspect of "The Handmaid's Tale" was congenial to me.

PatH -In that case you'd probably just love Oryx and Crake - I've tried it two or three times and just can't get into it. Whether I take to a Sci-Fi or not depends a lot on how I feel at the time.

What I like about the old sagas is simply that they were written so long ago and speak so clearly to us today - the same with all medieval and ancient lit. Oddly enough I enjoy the genealogy bits...takes all sorts I guess.

hats · « **Reply #195 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:25:24 AM »

This is hard but fun. I have to really, really think. $:-\$

(The) Secret Life of Bees

I did see an s I think.

hats · « **Reply #196 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:26:19 AM »

Yep, I posted on The Years.

jane · « **Reply #197 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:29:11 AM »

Sea of Thunder

by Evan Thomas

based on Secret Life of Bees

hats · « **Reply #198 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:37:26 AM »

Run

By Ann Patchett

Posting on R

Fran · « **Reply #199 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:58:15 AM »

Nights of Rodante

by Nocholas Sparks

n, from Run

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