Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 352495 times)

hats · « **Reply #200 on:** February 26, 2009, 09:09:14 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

.East of Eden

By Steinbeck

Posted on rodanthE

Is there a limit per person for answering?

hats · « **Reply #201 on:** February 26, 2009, 09:10:04 AM »

I don't want to come too often. Well, I don't know enough books to come to often. I guess that's not a problem for me.

ANNIE · « **Reply #202 on:** February 26, 2009, 09:22:19 AM »

Naked and the Dead, The by Norman Mailer

From N at end of East of Eden

Fran · « **Reply #203 on:** February 26, 2009, 09:52:46 AM »

Daughter of York

by Anne Easter Smith

d, from dead

Gumtree · « **Reply #204 on:** February 26, 2009, 09:54:12 AM »

Hi Adoannie &Hats - good to see you.

This surely is a bit of fun to play -I don't think it matters how often you come in so long as someone has responded to your last post -

Dusklands

ON The Naked and the DeaD

Another one by J.M. Coetzee - one of his early pieces, it is really 2 novellas. One is set in the Vietnam War - the other during Boers exploration of South Africa. Both deal with imperialism and the protagonists in each have power over people they considered inferior. I think Dusklands foreshadows a lot of his later work.

hats · « **Reply #205 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:02:59 AM »

(The) Sula

by Toni Morrison

Posting on Dusklands=====usingS

hats · « **Reply #206 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:03:42 AM »

Hi Gumtree and Everybody

Fran · « **Reply #207 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:17:03 AM »

I see, we can use either the first or last letter of the "title?"

Fran · « **Reply #208 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:19:45 AM »

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

k, from york

I couldn't pass up the one book I have that starts with"K"

Fran · « **Reply #209 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:22:48 AM »

Getting back to "A" from sula

Act of Will

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

PatH · « **Reply #210 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:37:55 AM »

Letters from my Mill

Alphonse Daudet, on WilL

PatH · « **Reply #211 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:48:13 AM »

To answer some questions on rules: this is how I understand it. There's no limit on number of times you can post, but you can't post on your own entry. Your title begins with the last letter of the latest title you see. Sometimes someone else will post while you are writing, so it makes things less confusing if you say what you are posting on, but it should be the most recent one as of the time you started writing.

Fran · « **Reply #212 on:** February 26, 2009, 11:58:47 AM »

Legacy of Silence

by Belva Plain

L, from Mill

Rules explanation much appreciated, Fran

ALF43 · « **Reply #213 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:25:33 PM »

Exodus

-by Uris

That was an easy one that came to me right away. Usually I sit here and recite the alphabet for a long while until something comes to mind.

Frybabe · « **Reply #214 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:40:19 PM »

Seven Pillars of WisdoM
by T.E. Lawrence

from Exudus

Fran · « **Reply #215 on:** February 26, 2009, 12:40:34 PM »

The Silver Pigs

by Lindsey Davis

s, fron exodus

PatH · « **Reply #216 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:31:42 PM »

(The) Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut, on PigS

PatH · « **Reply #217 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:33:20 PM »

Hi, hats, good to see you here.

Gumtree, I didn't even attempt to read Oryx and Crake, because the reviews convinced me I wouldn't like it.

hats · « **Reply #218 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:40:25 PM »

Hi PatH, I'm glad to see you.

It's funny. Sometimes I can remember a title and not the author. Other times I can remember an author but not a title. Then, at other times both come to me smoothly.

I didn't read that Atwood book, "Oryx and Crake" because the two words intimidated me. $:-\$

hats · « **Reply #219 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:45:20 PM »

Nancy Drew (series)

by Carolyn Keene

Posted on N

Steph · « **Reply #220 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:55:21 PM »

C from Hotel DuLac
Circus of the Damned by Laurell Hamilton..

hats · « **Reply #221 on:** February 26, 2009, 01:57:01 PM »

Devil in The Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley

Post on damnedD

PatH · « **Reply #222 on:** February 26, 2009, 02:02:57 PM »

Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe, on DresS

hats · « **Reply #223 on:** February 26, 2009, 02:10:41 PM »

The Rainmaker

by John Grisham

Post on "R"

mabel1015j · « **Reply #224 on:** February 26, 2009, 03:31:35 PM »

Royal Murder

an Elliot Roosevelt mystery

on rainmaker
I love them, but i've read almost all of them and he died a few yrs ago....boohoo.............

Hi Hats - jean

Fran · « **Reply #225 on:** February 26, 2009, 03:56:08 PM »

The Road From Chapel Hill

by Joanna Catherine Scott

r, from murder

mabel1015j · « **Reply #226 on:** February 26, 2009, 06:42:34 PM »

LONDON!

by Rutherford

we had a good discussion here on it a few yrs ago.

l on Hill

jean

Fran · « **Reply #227 on:** February 26, 2009, 07:04:45 PM »

Not As A Stranger

by Morton Thompson

n, from London

mabel1015j · « **Reply #228 on:** February 26, 2009, 08:35:06 PM »

Ohhh yeah Fran, I had forgotten that that good movie was first a book. I don't remember if i saw the movie first and then read the book - but i think that's the way it was. Was it in the 60's? .................

just looked it up - the novel was 1954, one of the top seeling ones of the year......the movie was 1955. It was Stanley Kramer's debut as a director, Olivia DeHaviland, Robt Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Broderick Crawford and Charles Bickford, it was nominated for an Oscar............I saw Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity the other night and i never realized how small a man he was. His body was smaller in stature than Montgomery Cliff and i always tho't of Monty as being a small man...............maybe since Frank became such a "big" personality, i tho't he was bigger. .......interesting how as you look back on things, the perspective is often different than you remembered. ...........................jean

Gumtree · « **Reply #229 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:07:54 PM »

Good afternoon Title Maniacs!

Rites of Passage

William Golding - first of a trilogy- filmed as 'To the Ends of the Earth'

on Not as a StrangeR

pedln · « **Reply #230 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:28:00 PM »

The Elephant Man

by Bernard Pomerance
on
Rites of Passage

Gumtree · « **Reply #231 on:** February 26, 2009, 10:59:30 PM »

Nibelungenlied

By an unknown poet...

on Elephant MaN

PatH · « **Reply #232 on:** February 26, 2009, 11:08:07 PM »

Dracula

Bram Stoker, onNiebelungenlieD

Gumtree · « **Reply #233 on:** February 27, 2009, 03:50:36 AM »

Andre

Georges Sand -
she wrote this one towards the end of her affaire with Alfred de Musset

on DraculA

PatH · « **Reply #234 on:** February 27, 2009, 06:26:29 AM »

Edge of Reason

Helen fielding, on AndrE

It's the sequel to Bridget Jones' Diary.

Gumtree · « **Reply #235 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:01:16 AM »

The Next Big Thing

Anita Brookner - a book about what it really means to be old - what to do with the time left...

on Edge of ReasoN

hats · « **Reply #236 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:19:04 AM »

GumTree,

How do you like books written by Anita Brookner? I've never tried one. She seems like an author who would provoke me to think and rethink what I thought I knew already.

hats · « **Reply #237 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:22:45 AM »

Gone with The Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Post on G

Gumtree · « **Reply #238 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:47:15 AM »

The Dubliners

James Joyce - a collection of short stories - some of the characters turn up again in Ulysses...

On Gone with the WinD

Gumtree · « **Reply #239 on:** February 27, 2009, 08:56:36 AM »

Hats You asked about Anita Brookner...she's not everyone's cup of tea. Some friends of mine find her either boring or depressing. A lot of her work deals with lonliness - of people living mundane but usually dignified lives alone. Her characters are often searching for something - they're often boringly married, separated or divorced and are hoping to find a new life, maybe a new lover or a new spouse. She has a great insight but she is pretty serious though sometimes quite funny. Her writing is very precise and sometimes she reminds me of Virginia Woolf. I find her rewarding - worth the time and effort she takes but you certainly can't pick her up for a quick read.

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