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Post by Hermes on Dec 8, 2014 16:55:39 GMT -5
Does anyone else want to attempt my quiz, or shall I post the answers? I think people who have guessed already can guess again now.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Dec 8, 2014 19:34:51 GMT -5
4. The Thirteen-Gun Salute. - Patrick O'Brien 10. 'The Library Policeman'. - Stephen King
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Dec 9, 2014 2:13:23 GMT -5
i could work out some more if i had the effort
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Dec 9, 2014 5:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Dec 9, 2014 9:06:06 GMT -5
4. The Thirteen-Gun Salute. - Patrick O'Brien 10. 'The Library Policeman'. - Stephen King Both correct. OK, some clues. The Thirteen Clocks is by the same author as 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'. Can You Forgive Her is by the author of the Barchester Novels. The Strange Library is by a Japanese author mentioned in the works of Lemony Snicket. The Figure of Beatrice is a work of criticism, not fiction, though its author was also a novelist. He is known as one of the Inklings.
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Post by Charlie on Dec 10, 2014 6:29:33 GMT -5
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Dec 11, 2014 3:50:25 GMT -5
yayyyyyyy
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Post by BSam on Dec 11, 2014 23:01:09 GMT -5
apologies for day 11, it will be late. will post here when it's done.
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Post by bandit on Dec 12, 2014 1:46:45 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Dec 12, 2014 14:31:02 GMT -5
OK, here are the answers to the quiz.
1. The Thirteen Clocks. James Thurber. 2. The Thirteenth Tale. Diane Setterfield. (Answered by Tryina.) 3. Thirteen at Dinner. Agatha Christie. (Answered by Tryina.) 4. The Thirteen-Gun Salute. Patrick O'Brian. (Answered by Terry). 5. What is the Name of this Book? Raymond Smullyan. (Answered by Terry.) 6. Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope. 7. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick. (Answered by BSam.) 8. Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Gary K. Wolf. (Answered by Tryina.) 9. The Body in the Library. Agatha Christie. (Answered by Mister M.) 10. 'The Library Policeman'. Stephen King. (Answered by Terry.) 11. 'The Library of Babel'. Jorge Luis Borges. (Answered by Linda.) 12. The Strange Library. Haruki Murakami. (Not answered by anyone, even though he was being discussed elsewhere on the board.) 13. The Figure of Beatrice. Charles Williams.
I would especially recommend The Thirteen Clocks. It's a surrealistic kind of fantasy of a kind that I think would appeal to Snicket readers. I'm not sure if it was originally published as a children's book, but it was being sold as one, along with The Wonderful O, when I was young. It includes a lot of strange words like Golux and Todal, which derive from Thurber's military service as a code clerk.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Dec 12, 2014 14:59:35 GMT -5
Is anyone very spontaneous and wants to do something for tomorrow? (It's okay if it's something you found somewhere, not something that you made yourself) Also we have some other days left, it would be awesome if someone could fill those too.
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Post by Hermes on Dec 13, 2014 16:53:57 GMT -5
Here is an ersatz. It's a poem that was popular when I was young (when, as you can see, computers were a bit different from what they are now).
The Computer's First Christmas Card by Edwin Morgan.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on Dec 14, 2014 11:10:30 GMT -5
OK, I am perfectly sure the computer in the ersatz is non-functioning.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Dec 15, 2014 3:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Dec 16, 2014 15:58:42 GMT -5
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