book title game ( also swiped from straight dope, no more i promise) connect titles by common word yada yada
day of the jackal
day of the triffids
lord of the rings
lord of the flies
continue
Lord Edgware dies by Agatha Christie
In the House of the Lord Robert Flynn
did i misunderstand? i thought dody was asking for several degrees of seperation-
starting with WW post
In the House of the Lord Robert Flynn
to
The Houseof Seven Gables
to
Green Gables
to
How Green Was my Valley
to
Valley of the Dolls
to
A Dolls House
ok, the last one is a play.. but...
i think she wants us to string a bunch together..(and i couldn't with her selection.. so thank you WW!)
and the next poster could start with any list and add to it, or make a new list of their own.....
or did i mess up?
The House of Spirits by Isabella Allende
Bingley
the house of sand and fog - dunno who it's by, and of troy, that wuz just an example to get the ball rolling, you can put one at a time or several or whatever you want.
Out of the Fog: the Sinking of the Andrea Doria - Algot Mattsson
doesn't have to be fiction, does it?
are bad friends to have
Of Mice and Men -John Steinbeck
Men at Arms -Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms -Evelyn Waugh
Testimony of Two Men, by Taylor Caldwell
A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
Bingley
Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana
p.s. to dodyskin --
Day of the Triffids was a very good book! Thanks for the reminder. I'll read it again sometime!
note to coffeebean, it is a good book isn't it? It fairly zips along. I tend to lump it in with a whole lot of other ( fairly terrible) early sci-fi, and then I read it again and think, 'oh, that was a good book'.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabeybaby
A Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
Bingley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss
Red in the Morning (Dornford Yates)
(no WO'n, you can't have "Morning becomes Electra!" )
Good Morning Midnight -Jean Rhys
Goodnight Moon -- Margaret Wise Brown
The Moon and Sixpence Somerset Maugham
Sorry, haven't been following this thread oo closely, and hope this is not a repeat.
The Moon Is Down -- John Steinbeck
Beak of the Moon. Philip Temple.
From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
A Long Day's
Journey into Night -- O'Neill
~~~
p.s. Dody, is Jean Rhys related to you? (always quick on the uptake here...)
The Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams
Iguana Brothers by Tony Johnston
The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Cliff Notes)
Notes from Underground, by Dostoevsky
:)
Underground by David Macaulay
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners by Capt M Horace Hayes
:)
the faraway horses: adventures and wisdom of an american horse whisperer- buck branaman, william reynolds
the cat whisperer- the secret of how to talk to your cat- daft besom
secrets of the baby whisperer- how to calm, connect and communicate with your baby- two daft besoms
but, please sir, how can it be a secret if you can buy it on amazon?
the dog whisperer-a compassionate, non violent approach to dog training- what's the male equivalent of a daft besom? tofu welder?
the whisperer and other voices- brian lumley
ok, ok, i confess i haven't read these, jus' couldn't think of anything nearly as clever as mavs. i'll go with
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers - Dave Pilkey
in reply to AsP, yes she was my grandmas cousin or something, the house in 'the wide sargasso sea' is my grandmas house certainly. it's all a bit murky, they were both disowned. i've got another one to pull out of the bag, if the connections permit
hey, dody, I haven't read all that horseshhhh either ~ the vet book caught my eye because it happens to be at my right shoulder on the bookcase, presumably from the days when my DBW was studying for some horsey qualification :)
and please tell me you made up that title?!