Friday, September 17, 2010
Trivial Pursuit for Book-Lovers
Children's: What children's classic stars a hungry creature who chomps an apple, two pears, three plums, four strawberries and five oranges?
Classics: What story starts: "Marley was dead, to begin with"?
Non-Fiction: What Jimi Hendrix album did his bassist Noel Redding pick for his autobiography?
Book Club: Who contrasts 36 hours in the life of troubled "hex" Raitliffe with a potentially devastating atomic chain-reaction, in his novel Purple America?
Authors: What author of Strangers on a Train adopted the pseudonym Claire Morgan in the staid 1950s to write a lesbian love story, The Price of Salt?
Book Bag: What Liverpudlian saw his story The Hellbound Heart adapted for the silver screen as Hellraiser?
Classics: What story starts: "Marley was dead, to begin with"?
Non-Fiction: What Jimi Hendrix album did his bassist Noel Redding pick for his autobiography?
Book Club: Who contrasts 36 hours in the life of troubled "hex" Raitliffe with a potentially devastating atomic chain-reaction, in his novel Purple America?
Authors: What author of Strangers on a Train adopted the pseudonym Claire Morgan in the staid 1950s to write a lesbian love story, The Price of Salt?
Book Bag: What Liverpudlian saw his story The Hellbound Heart adapted for the silver screen as Hellraiser?
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Children's: The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Classics: A Christmas Carol
Non-Fiction: Are You Experienced?
Very Hungry Caterpillar (who eats a nice green leaf the next day, to soothe his aching tummy)
A Christmas Carol
Children's: And one nice green leaf -- The very hungry caterpillar.
Classics: A Christmas Carol
Non-Fiction: Are You Experienced?
Book Club: ?
Authors: Highsmith
[Uncategorized]: I know this is someone I know, but I can't remember whom
Harriet, sorry the uncategorized one is Book Bag. I've fixed it now.
Holy cow! I know more than one! :-)
Childrens: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Classics: A Christmas Carol
The only one I can even guess at is the Classic might be A Christmas Carol?
Children's: The Very hungry Caterpillar.
Classics: A Christmas Carol
Authors: Patricia Highsmith (I knew this one because I just read something about that in a review of The Talented Mr. Ripley).
Classics: A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Book Bag: Clive Barker?
Children's: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Classics: A Christmas Carol
Non-Fiction: Are You Experienced?
Book Club: Rick Moody
Authors: Patricia Highsmith
Book Bag: Clive Barker
None of us have ever heard of Clive Moody or his novel Purple America, but collectively we got the rest!
Sorry, I just confused myself. None of us have heard of Rick Moody is what I meant to say.
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