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Jan 22, 2010 12:00PM
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I have one... this is more puzzler than it is literary, but you can use up multiple letters in your title (fiction or nonfiction):"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" uses both the "A" and the "B" and so the next person needs a title starting with "C."
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So since the title I chose has C, D, E, F, and G in order, the next person starts with H, right?
In an effort to add at least a modicum of play to this round, I was thinking (and did not specify earlier) that the letters must be the first of a word. So for your submission, Joseph, you score a "C" and a "D." Does that sound fair?
Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Legacy #1 by Jacqueline CareyK&L
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U & V
and W
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Can I get away with a cheat so we can move on to the next theme? XYlophones above Zarundi = XYZ? :-)
How about memoirs, autobiographies, biographies that either the title or the last name of the subject starts with the appropriate letter. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House or
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
would work.
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John Neihardt
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim by David Sedaris
I tripped up on my initial response to this...... so how about Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl?
brian wrote: "I tripped up on my initial response to this...... so how about Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl?"
That works fine!
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956by
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
about his, the author's, time in the Soviet Prison system.
How to Build a Tin Canoe: Confessions of an Old Salt by Robb White
John Adams by David McCollough. I feel old for some reason for getting into McCullough's works.
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milkby
Randy Shilts
Two 'M's for the price of one.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by F Douglass
Ten Thousand Sorrows, The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by E Kim
I give up on the X's, in perpetuity...
The only X's I have already are used as in Xenia Hausner: Hide And Seek
So let's skip to Y with
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance stretching it? (R Pirsig?)
brian wrote: "Is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance stretching it? (R Pirsig?)"That works fine! I'd even thought of that one as a 'Z'.
Now, does someone want to start another one on the way to probably skipping X or modifying the rules :)?
brian wrote: "Where did everyone go, CD?"I don't know?? Hopefully they didn't go away mad.
How about some variation of this topic by titles that are in alphabetic order but need not start with the next letter?
Example:
"The Adventures of Augie March" would be followed by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I just don't have a theme or a way in mind to end this topic such as the natural arrival at Z?
I welcome any suggestions or someone can start a new topic!
Ha -- how do we ever leave the "A's"!?
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