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Steve H
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This is a popular game on another forum I'm a member of. Post the title and author of a book which has some sort of connection with the previous one. The connection can be, for example, a major word in common in the titles (by 'major word' I mean not "and", "of", "the", "a", etc.), another book about the same subject, a sequel or prequel to the previous book, or anything, including something quirky and not obvious, though in that case, explain the link. NOT allowed is another book by the same author, unless there's another link as well, because otherwise we could just run through all the books by one well-known author, and then move on to the next, which would be boring and unimaginative.
An example of how the game might proceed would be:
Strange Days Indeed - Francis Wheen
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell (Link - both titles are personal names)
Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel - W.A.Craik
etc.
OK, to start the game off:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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'Galaxy in Flames' by Ben Counter
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The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
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Steve H
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The New Book of Apples - Joan Morgan and Alison Richards
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The Golden Apples of the Sun Ray Bradbury
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Steve H
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A Ride in the Neon Sun - Josie Dew
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Chorister
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'The Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess.
(both titles involve orange spheres)
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Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson.
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Steve H
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Father and Son - Edmund Gosse (Link - both books about troubled childhoods with extreme puritanical parents.)
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Steve H
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Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Chorister
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'One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Steve H
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George Orwell: a Life - Bernard Crick.
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Ariston
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The Double Helix—Watson & Crick
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Zoey
Broken idealist
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle (narrated by John Watson)
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birdie
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The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco (protagonist William of Baskerville).
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"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness."
Captain Jack Sparrow
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QLib
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The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay.
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Chorister
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'Third Year at Malory Towers' by Enid Blyton
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The Two Towers (vol.2 LoTR)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
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Lyda*Rose
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Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Steve H
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English Bread and Yeast Cookery - Elizabeth David (Link - rye bread)
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Plats du Jour* by Patience Grey and Primrose Boyd
*trans "Dishes of the Day" - book on French-style cookery, inspired by Elizabeth David.
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Steve H
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The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl - Belle de Jour
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Lyda*Rose
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For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Ariston
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John Donne, "Meditation 17"
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Steve H
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Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Lyda*Rose
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
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Ariston
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Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Lyda*Rose
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The Rule of St. Benedict by Benedict of Nursia (another book of precepts for a spiritual/philosophical community)
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A Candle for St.Jude by Rumer Godden, which is sitting sulking on my bookshelf, waiitng for me to read it.
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Steve H
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Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
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Hold to Christ, and for the rest, be totally uncommitted.
Herbert Butterfield.
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Lyda*Rose
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The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon (the first Hardy Boys mystery)
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Zoey
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Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
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Gracious rebel
Rainbow warrior
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The island by Victoria Hislop
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Fancy a break beside the sea in Suffolk? Visit my website
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Lyda*Rose
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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scot O'Dell
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Ariston
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Lord of the Flies William Golding
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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.
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Steve H
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Chapman's Homer.
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Herbert Butterfield.
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QLib
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Collected Poems of John Keats
(Contains 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer')
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Steve H
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John Keats: a Life - Stephen Coote
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Herbert Butterfield.
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Lyda*Rose
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Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
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Pearl B4 Swine
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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Lyda*Rose
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede
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Beowulf
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Albertus
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Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (Angus Wilson)
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My beard is a testament to my masculinity and virility, and demonstrates that I am a real man. Trouble is, bits of quiche sometimes get caught in it.
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Lyda*Rose
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Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (where the antidotes to the faintness brought on by Anglo-Saxon Attitudes are ham sandwiches and hay)
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The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
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Albertus
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
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