New game: title/author word association

[Ell]

Here's how it goes:

Start with a title of book and its author.

Next person names a book that has something to do with the title, author, subject matter. It might be a play on words, one of the words in the title, same subject, another book by the author, . . . lots of possibilities.

Example:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Next: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Next: Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
etc., etc.

So I'll go on with "Boys from Brazil" by Ira Levin

 

[lies]

"About a Boy" by Nick Hornby is the first that comes to mind.

 

[Martin]

Err... 'I, Lucifer', by Glenn Duncan.

I'll explain. Hornby ---> Lucifer has horns (or is this too far-fetched?).

Cheers, Martin

 

[member 737]

'I, Claudius' - Robert Graves

 

[Martin]

'Stranger in a Strange Land' - Robert A. Heinlein.

Cheers, Martin

 

[PatrickBateman]

Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Robert A. Heinlein.

 

[lies]

A Midsummer Night's Dream -- William Shakespeare

 

[J_D]

Tek War by William Shatner

hahahahahaha

ps didn't Phillip K. Dick write Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

 

[Martin]

'War And Peace' by Leo Tolstoy

(And yes, Philip K. Dick did write 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', but that doesn't influence the game.)

Cheers, Martin

 

[Ell]

Crime and Punishment - by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[Beatrycze]

"Pamela"- by Samuel Richardson

 

[J_D]

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

By the way, Crime and Punishment would have been pretty appropriate to follow Tek War don't you think.

 

[phil_t]

The Diary of Anne Frank

 

[Martin]

'Diary: a Novel' by Chuck Palahniuk.

Can somebody explain the link between 'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky and 'Pamela' by Samuel Richardson. Or am I missing something extremely obvious here?!

Cheers, Martin

 

[phil_t]

No idea frankly, but then ive missed half the links between these books!!

Phil

 

[Martin]

Hahaha... welcome back, Phil!!

Cheers, Martin

 

[phil_t]

Thanks Martin Im afraid that this thread requires lateral thinking to a large degree, and that just makes my head hurt

Phil

 

[Martin]

You know what helps? Slamming your head down on the table, preferebly the edge, three of four times. Remove your keyboard first, of course. You wouldn't want to damage anything expensive, right?

's true!

Cheers, Martin

 

[Beatrycze]

In the book of Dostoevski crime is punished, and of Richardson virtue is rewarded.

 

[Ell]

In the book of Dostoevski crime is punished, and of Richardson virtue is rewarded.

Love it! (the clue, that is, not the book)

To follow "The Diary: a Novel" by Chuck Palahniuk

Memoirs of a Geisha by Aurthur Golden