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I have an idea for a new game. Post alliterative titles or authors or characters in alphabetical order. Think this might be fun.

Some rules and guidelines:

Please state the letter first. This helps everyone to keep track when people comment in between postings.

Skipping awkward letters is Ok but please give everyone a few hours to let the little grey cells work before doing so and say which letter/letters you are skipping. As you are allowed to post characters names as well as book or author names we might get through the whole alphabet a few times.

You can post in any of the three categories but say which it is and add book name and author if you are posting a character from a book.

Use the "add book/author" link above when posting so everyone can quickly look up a book or author they are interested in.


I will start us off:

A

Sir Andrew Aguecheek from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

B:
The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett

do I get a bonus point for having a semi-alliterative author too please?

Too clever by half.....but Maybe you should have left out the first name!
Are we dishing out points then?

I take it you like my game idea....

Definitely! (But that's why he's only "semi"-alliterative ;)

Jean wrote: "B:
The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett

do I get a bonus point for having a semi-alliterative author too please?"

Hey Jean, BBC Radio 4X is doing a Simon Brett Charles Paris drama Saturday; you can listen on the radio or online ()...

Thanks very much Leslie!! I would have missed that as it's late, so have just set it up to record. I also just put a "radio alert" on the General Chat thread. Perhaps we need a radio thread? ;)

C:
Charles Crichton His book The Lavender Hill Mob was famously filmed as an Ealing Comedy, and he also directed "A Fish Called Wanda".

The there's Charles Chilton who wrote all the Journey Into Space - Operation Luna series. I remember listening to these on cassettes. He played one of the characters too, I think.

Easy to mix those two up. I always thought they were the same man until I sorted them out just now!!

So c'mon, surely I deserve a bonus now, Tweedledum!!(Noticed you have expanded the rules, by the way! :) )

Ok Jean I award you 6 points for 3 posts and a bonus point for a matching surname.

Jean's score : 7

I don't want a score thanks, but I like the idea of this thread, Tweedledum

Daniel Deronda (and to carry on the same theme! Daniel Defoe)

LOL! No, I don't think we should score points either. But I was hoping for a golden crown... ;)

Well if you are both sure about that then.....

Ok confession time.

I set up this thread so I could put in

Eight Energetic Elephants from Is There Room on the Bus? by Helen Piers

Frederick Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol (the title isn't really alliterative but sort of goes with the F's in the author's name)

Jean - I love Alec Guiness in The Lavender Hill Mob!! I didn't know that was based on a book. Guiness was in a bunch of great comedies done by Ealing Studios :)

Oh I do so agree, Leslie. Real feel-good movies :D

G:
Germaine Greer , author of The Female Eunuch - a powerfully impressive Feminist book when I was growing up.

Headlong Hall - another book by Thomas Love Peacock which I am going to try to read this month...

Leslie wrote: "Frederick Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol (the title isn't really alliterative but sort of goes with the F's in the author's name)

Jean - I love Alec Guiness in The La..."

Indeed!

I'm stuck now. Looked for "Inchworm, Inchworm" in the catalogue, hoping it might be a picture book, but all I can find is a book on classroom techniques with that title, which isn't quite what I wanted.

How about The Indian in the Cupboard? In fact, it's quite a good one because it's "in" and another "in"!

That is a good one!

J:
jerome k jerome for example Three Men in a Boat - The Original Classic Edition

Kate Kingsley - no idea, the name just came to me! I must have seen it in discussions on GR somewhere...

L
Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Major Major Major Major in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Ha ha that's a good one!

Oh Excellent!! :D Hope you've not set a precedent there Leslie!

I just came across a good one for F... Hope I remember it when it rolls around again!

N: Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Yes both the book title and the eponymous hero!

O
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
I came across this through a Penguin 60 mini book.

P:
Oh so obviously - sorry - Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

No apologies needed! An excellent choice!

I can't think of any Q ones...

Me neither. Though someone probably wrote an antiques book called "Quite Quaint" or something. Can anybody think of a non-fiction quirky book?

Maybe we could make an exception
Q
Queequeg from Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is Alliterative all by himself!

Q

Or how about?
The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son

I love google!

Oh that's fantastic! Who is it by?

R: Roderick Random in The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett This is a book I want to read - this was on my list last year but I never got to it :(

S: Scarlett O'Hara Gone with the Wind

Nicole wrote: "S: Scarlett O'Hara Gone with the Wind"

Hi Nicole not sure how this entry is alliterative? You could use the author though when we get to M!

Well, I should really let someone else go but I have a good S one:

Sylvia Scarlett from The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton Mackenzie

T:

Tom Towers from The Warden by Anthony Trollope (the newspaper journalist who led a campaign against the allocation of Hiram Hospital's funds)

I don't see why Leslie! I'd called into this thread myself but as yet had got no inspiration for "S"! Yours is a good one!

Now we are getting to the hard part of the alphabet...

U: hmmm... Other than Uriah Heep I don't know any U characters off the top of my head. Maybe there is some ukelele U person somewhere :)

U Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill I have this book on my bookshelves but haven't started it yet.

Oooo well done Tweedledum! I have been racking my brains over "U" !

V
Vanessa Vallely Heels of Steel: Surviving & Thriving In The Corporate World
Looks like my kind of book. Would never have found it if I hadn't been looking for double v authors!

lots of W ones... I'll go with Walt Whitman.

Leslie wrote: "lots of W ones... I'll go with Walt Whitman."

Nice that name!!! HArd to read his poetry though ...

Tweedledum wrote: "Nicole wrote: "S: Scarlett O'Hara Gone with the Wind"

Hi Nicole not sure how this entry is alliterative? You could use the author though when we get to M!"

SORRY, I guess I didn't get the game! Will go back and read the directions!

X is hard... and I can't even think of a Y one.

me too!

Well I once met a consultant with the wonderful name of Zenobia Zaiawallah! If only someone would put her in a book....

Shall we race on to A?

Tweedledum wrote: "Well I once met a consultant with the wonderful name of Zenobia Zaiawallah! If only someone would put her in a book....

Shall we race on to A?"

Go for it!

Anna Akhmatova
A Russian poet whose books were banned between 1925 and 1940.
I submit this as evidence that playing this game can broaden your mind..... Well my mind anyway..... Now I just need to actually check out her poems! Any soviet banned author deserves a wider readership in my view....

You can find some here.