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PatH

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« Reply #2080 on: August 04, 2010, 06:34:07 PM »
Daywatch

Sergei Lukyanenko, on BroaD

This is the second in Lukyanenko's Soviet-style "the fight between good vs evil reduced to a bureaucracy" trilogy.  I know I've used Nightwatch, but the very unreliable search function doesn't come up with this one.

JoanK

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« Reply #2081 on: August 04, 2010, 07:16:57 PM »
House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

on watcH

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2082 on: August 05, 2010, 05:14:10 PM »
On H in MirtH

Huckelberry Finn
by
 Mark Twain

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2083 on: August 06, 2010, 05:06:44 PM »
Not the dreaded "N"

Nostradamus 2003-2025 : A History of the Future

Hah!

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2084 on: August 07, 2010, 05:00:55 PM »
On R from FutuRe

Republic
by
Plato

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2085 on: August 07, 2010, 06:43:55 PM »
Captain's Courageous

Rudyard Kipling, on RepubliC

Frybabe

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2086 on: August 07, 2010, 07:04:20 PM »

The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkien

on the S from CourageouS

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2087 on: August 07, 2010, 08:00:26 PM »
Curses! Another N!  Fortunately, I found one:

No Room in the Ark

Alan Moorhead, on SilmarillioN

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2088 on: August 07, 2010, 09:19:34 PM »
Kapital

by Karl Marx

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2089 on: August 07, 2010, 09:36:05 PM »
Last Watch

Sergei Lukyanenko, on KapitaL

The 4th book in Lukyanenko's trilogy (yes, I know) of the conflict between good and evil.

By the way, JoanK is probably the only person I know who has actually read Das Kapital.

JoanK

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« Reply #2090 on: August 07, 2010, 09:39:33 PM »
And survived it!

How to Fix Almost Everything

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PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2091 on: August 07, 2010, 10:03:53 PM »
Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon, on EverythinG

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2092 on: August 08, 2010, 05:54:38 PM »
What is the What

by Dave Eggers

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PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2093 on: August 08, 2010, 06:24:41 PM »
Take a Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis, on WhaT

Gumtree

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2094 on: August 09, 2010, 01:28:10 AM »
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

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PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2095 on: August 09, 2010, 01:34:40 AM »
Girl, 20

Kingsley Amis, on BeinG

I would say you could either use the number or spell it out--twenty.

Frybabe

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2096 on: August 09, 2010, 09:08:10 AM »
Okay, you asked for it!

0 to 60
by Susan Slater


This on is on my wishlist TB at Amazon. I think her Ben Pecos series also looks interesting. Anyone read it?

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2097 on: August 09, 2010, 03:15:12 PM »
mmm. is that an o, a 0 or a sixTy?

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2098 on: August 09, 2010, 03:57:23 PM »
OK, I'll assume I can use an oh.

Of Mice and Men

by Steinbeck

Sorry for the "n"

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2099 on: August 09, 2010, 08:14:41 PM »
On N in MeN

Notes from the Underground and other Stories
by
Dostoevski

(Are we "sorrying" now for our ubiquitous ending letters? If so, sorry for S and E.)

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2100 on: August 09, 2010, 08:36:19 PM »
(The) Songs of Distant Earth

Arthur C. Clarke, on StorieS

S and E are optional.  The only one anyone apologizes for is N, which isn't optional, but a lot of us are running out of Ns.  Thanks for getting us off the hook.

Frybabe

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2101 on: August 10, 2010, 09:40:51 AM »
Howard Hughes: The Untold Story
by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske

on the H from EartH

Gumtree

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2102 on: August 10, 2010, 10:58:42 AM »
Now I generally don't mind an N or S E and Y but X is a bit tricky.

Y2K

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JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2103 on: August 10, 2010, 12:49:58 PM »
Oh K!

King Solomon's Mines
by
Rider Haggard

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2104 on: August 10, 2010, 10:32:26 PM »
She

Also by H. Rider Haggard

on mineS

We don't have to apologise for e's and s's, because we can skip them. But "n" is becoming a problem.

Remember, we can skip the letters S E X Y.

We could make a rule to skip "n"s, but then it would be "SNEXY" WICH DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME RING.

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2105 on: August 12, 2010, 12:08:53 AM »
Half Life

Hal Clement, on SHe

Sci-fi, in which the happy ending is that the scientists in an off-world colony, dying of various environment-related diseases, realize that they will be able to get a bit more research done before they collapse.  (Don't laugh, for a scientist that is a happy ending.)

PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2106 on: August 12, 2010, 12:16:27 AM »
I would be glad to settle for being SNEXY rather than SEXY if I could get rid of the dreaded N.  I had a really neat title for She, but it ends in N, and I won't do that. We tried to put it to a vote once, but got only a tepid response.

Gumtree

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2107 on: August 12, 2010, 06:00:17 AM »
Hey PatH - you just got a mental block on N  :)

Elder Edda

Anonymous though sometimes attributed to Saemundr the Learned

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JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2108 on: August 12, 2010, 03:05:56 PM »
Anne of Green Gables

on eddA

Do you read the Eddas, Gum?

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2109 on: August 12, 2010, 07:00:54 PM »
On S in Gables

She Stoops to Conquer
by
Oliver Goldsmith

Gumtree

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2110 on: August 13, 2010, 05:33:41 AM »
Remembering Babylon

David Malouf  (Aussie)

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Do you read the Eddas, Gum?

Have read a couple - the Elder Edda was in my mind as my son and I were talking about it a little earlier.
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

Frybabe

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2111 on: August 13, 2010, 08:43:34 AM »

News from Nowhere
by William Morris

on the N from BabyloN

This is THE William Morris of wallpaper and fabric design fame.

Fran

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2112 on: August 13, 2010, 10:33:13 AM »
Rachel's Garden

by Marta  Perry

R, from nowheRe

JoanK

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2113 on: August 13, 2010, 02:41:26 PM »
Nowhere to Run

by CJ Box

One "n" deserves another.

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2114 on: August 14, 2010, 08:14:34 PM »
Now, Now aNother N..Here you are....

(The) Noonday Demon
 by
 Andrew Solomon     

This is one of the most famous non-fiction books on Depression.  It is sub-titled "An Atlas of Depression"

Fran

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2115 on: August 15, 2010, 11:04:10 AM »
Never Wave Goodbye

by Doug Magee

N, from demoN

Gumtree

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2116 on: August 15, 2010, 12:01:02 PM »
Exodus

Leon Uris

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PatH

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2117 on: August 15, 2010, 02:12:21 PM »
Unnatural Death

Dorothy L. Sayers, on ExodUs

Frybabe

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« Reply #2118 on: August 15, 2010, 03:18:31 PM »
(The) History of Mr. Polly
by H. G. Wells


on the H from DeatH

JudeS

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2119 on: August 15, 2010, 04:15:53 PM »
On Y in PollY

Yesterday's Child
by
 Sonia Levitan

(A teen novel)