Book Chain

[Abbynormal92243]

Here's how it works: I'll name a book, along with its author. The next person takes a word from the title and names another title and author, then the next person takes a word from her title and does the same ---forever and ever :)

I'll start with Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.

[Harriet]

Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Do you perhaps mean Laurie Lee?

[Harriet]

Yup. I've edited it.

[Abbynormal92243]

Cider House Rules
~ John Irving

[Dream Weaver]

The House At Pooh Corner - A A Milne

[ceedoubleu]

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

[My Friend Jack]

The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin - David Nobbs.

[ceedoubleu]

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon

[Mad Dog and Glory]

Decline And Fall - Evelyn Waugh

[Lulu]

Religion and the Decline of Magic - Keith Thomas

[My Friend Jack]

The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

[Dream Weaver]

The Colour Of Light - William Goldman. On to the next.

(I could have said Magic by William Goldman, and killed the thread stone dead. Am I right in thinking the game should be played by carrying over a different word from the previous one carried over?)

[Lady Lazarus]

The Colour Purple, Alice Walker.

[Harriet]

Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story - Dave Thompson

[Abbynormal92243]

The Colour Of Light - William Goldman. On to the next.

(I could have said Magic by William Goldman, and killed the thread stone dead. Am I right in thinking the game should be played by carrying over a different word from the previous one carried over?)


You are indeed right :)

[Barbara]

Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story - Dave Thompson

Hard water by Jean Sprackland (this is a book of poems. is it allowed?)

[Abbynormal92243]

Hard water by Jean Sprackland (this is a book of poems. is it allowed?)


If it's a book, it's allowed!!

The Water-Method Man
John Irving

[Harriet]

The Man Who Walked Between The Towers, Mordicai Gerstein

[purplebongowoman]

First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton

[Harriet]

Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, JRR Tolkein

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

[Abbynormal92243]

Lord Jim

[Darkstar]

Lord Foul's Bane : Stephen Donaldson

[BrumB]

Precious Bane - Mary Webb

[Harriet]

The Precious Present - Spencer MD Johnson

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

[Mad Dog and Glory]

A Midnight Clear - William Wharton

[Deinonychus]

'Tom's Midnight Garden' Philippa Pearce

(This was one of my favourite books as a kid and came up in conversation this very weekend...)

[Opal]

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

[BrumB]

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: James Thurber

[Opal]

Life, The Universe And Everything - Douglas Adams

[Darkstar]

Life Expectancy - Dean Koontz

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

[Harriet]

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges - Guy Browning

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

The Never-Ending Story - Michael Ende

[My Friend Jack]

The Story of Slade - George Tremlett

[BrumB]

Mysterious Miss Slade: Dick King Smith

[Opal]

Little Miss Sunshine - Roger Hargreaves

Sorry, I saw the word "Miss", and felt there had to be at least one on here.... And I don't recall anyone saying they had to be adults books! :P

[Harriet]

The Sunshine of Your Smile - Joan Jonker

[Mad Dog and Glory]

Secret Smile - Nicci French

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry

[Harriet]

Eternal Highlander - H. Howell

[Dream Weaver]

Hmmm, danger of thread dying so Amazon Advanced Search required...

The Dark Highlander - Karen Marie Moning

[My Friend Jack]

The Dark Tower - volume 1 - The Gunslinger - Stephen King

[Opal]

The Two Towers - JRR Tolkein

[BrumB]

Two Cheers for Democracy: E.M. Forster

[Opal]

Three Cheers, Secret Seven - Enid Blyton

[Dream Weaver]

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - T E Lawrence

[Opal]

Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Paperback Health Communications)) - Jack Canfield

Ok, I hunted on Amazon. But I do own a few Chicken Soup books! (Is that something that should be admitted to...?) :o

And the next person has lots of words to play with! :D

[My Friend Jack]

Dark Night of the Soul - Thomas Moore

Have to admit, I also looked on Amazon for this - it was either that or let the thread die (if only Chocolate Soup for Diabetics had been a book rather than an LP).

[Andream]

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul by Douglas Adams

[Opal]

The Teatime Islands - Ben Fogle

Amazon. Again. But its written by that Castaway guy (anyone else watch that when it was on...?) so I'm thinking of getting it from my library. Of course that requires finding my library card (I beong to 3 libraries and can never find the card for the one I want!).

[My Friend Jack]

Islands of Ghosts - Gillian Bradshaw

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

The Ghost Road - Pat Barker

[BrumB]

Tobacco Road - Erskine Caldwell

[Claire]

The Road Less Travelled - by M. Scott Peck.

[Lady Lazarus]

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

[My Friend Jack]

Bring On The Empty Horses - David Niven

[Opal]

Black Horses for the King - Anne McCaffrey

[Claire]

The Man Born to be King - by Dorothy L Sayers.

(Ok, so it's a play, but it's been published in book form....Does that count?)

[Dream Weaver]

Born Free - Joy Adamson

[happyfriday]

The Morning Star (The First Born of Egypt Series) - Simon Raven

[Claire]

First Among Equals - by Jeffrey Archer

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Among the Cannibals - Jules Verne

[Dream Weaver]

Cannibals and Kings - Marvin Harris (with no help at all from Amazon).

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Cannibals and Christians - Norman Mailer

[BrumB]

The Empty Chair - Ed McBain

[Dream Weaver]

:confused: Have I missed something?

[BrumB]

Oops - wrong page - late at night - apologies!

[Dream Weaver]

Shame, we were getting stuck here.

To Amazon we will go...

Lions and Christians - Wentworth M Johnson.

Now someone must know a book title with 'Lion' in it. :cool:

[Opal]

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - C S Lewis

I'm guessing you were thinking of that one Dream Weaver? Or is there another famous "lion" Book?

[Claire]

The Worst Witch - by Jill Murphy

[BrumB]

The Worst Jobs in History - Tony Robinson

[Harriet]

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

[Claire]

Life, The Universe and Everything - by Douglas Adams

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

What You Wear Can Change Your Life - Trinny Woodall, Susannah Constantine

[Claire]

You Are What You Eat - Gillian McKeith

[BrumB]

What Happened to the Corbetts - Nevil Shute

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Something Happened - Joseph Heller

[Dream Weaver]

Something In Disguise - Elizabeth Jane Howard

[Tess]

Something Rotton - Jasper Fforde

[Rootytootytoo]

The Rotten Romans - Terry Deary

[Deinonychus]

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs - John Lydon, Keith & Kent Zimmerman

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

The Dogs of War - Fredrick Forsythe

[Jassie]

War and Peace - Tolstoy

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Up The Line To Death; The War Poets 1914-1918 by Edmund Blunden and Brian Gardner

[Jassie]

Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie

[My Friend Jack]

Noddy Goes On Holiday - Enid Blyton

;)

[Rootytootytoo]

Who's Crazee Now? - Noddy Holder

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee

[megustaleer]

Who's afraid of C++ by Steve Heller

(Hope this counts, as it's a technical manual, and is now out of print!)

[Tess]

yeah it counts!

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

[megustaleer]

How to Catch Your Man by Tessa R.Risbrough

[winterwren]

:)

[Jassie]

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

[Tess]

The Origin of Species -Charles Darwin

[megustaleer]

Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

[Darkstar]

Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter

[winterwren]

:cool:

[megustaleer]

Love Without Fear by Dr Eustace Chesser

[Deinonychus]

Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford

[winterwren]

:rolleyes:

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

[megustaleer]

The Magic Porridge Pot retold by Vera Southgate

[Tess]

Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong

[BrumB]

The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsey

[Mad Dog and Glory]

The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie

[Harriet]

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.

[winterwren]

:o

[Darkstar]

Abigail's Party - Mike Leigh

[winterwren]

The Book of Abigail and John -Selected letters of the Adams Family - Edited by L.H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender and Mary Jo Kline :eek:


This one was worth a shot as it gives one plenty to work with in coming up with the next title!

[megustaleer]

The Box of Delights by John Masefield

[winterwren]

:)

[megustaleer]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

[Dream Weaver]

The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

[Darkstar]

The Scottish Soldier of Fortune: Their Adventures and Achievements in the Armies of Europe by James Grant

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Fortunes Of War - Olivia Manning

[megustaleer]

The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian

[Harriet]

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

[winterwren]

:)

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Peace Work - Spike Milligan

[Claire]

Nice Work - David Lodge

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Wouldn't It Be Nice - Brian Wilson

[megustaleer]

How to Be a Hero to Your Kids by Josh McDowell & Dick Day

[Deinonychus]

How to be Topp - Geoffrey Willans/Ronald Searle

[Tess]

How Clean Is Your House? - Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie

[Rootytootytoo]

The House of Sleep ~ Johnathan Coe

[BrumB]

The House of the Spirits: Isabel Allende

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen

[Darkstar]

Death of a Doll - Hilda Lawrence

[winterwren]

:)

[Grammath]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[BrumB]

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

[winterwren]

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The UnBeliever: Book One Lord Foul's Bane - Stephen R. Donaldson :D

[megustaleer]

Is it permitted to follow a singular word in one title, with its plural in the next?
In other words, within the rules of the game, can 'chronicleS' follow ' chronicle' ?

[Bill]

Yes.

Strictly speaking though, the same word shouldn't be carried over more than once, but realistically, it's only a game! :cool:

[BrumB]

Thomas the Tank Engine - Rev. Awdry

[Darkstar]

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies by P Kent. :rolleyes:

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

okay then, taking it on from Darkstars;

in search of lost time - marcel proust

[Dream Weaver]

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Something tells me you're still on page 9 L-L J ;) , so we'll have to skip past that and say

Windows® XP For Dummies®, 2nd Edition = Andy Rathbone

[Dream Weaver]

Now I look like the numpty, L-LJ having corrected herself before I did. :o Especially looking at the slight contrast in the literary merit of our picks. The prose style in Windows® XP For Dummies®, 2nd Edition in unsurpassable.

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

ooh the sheer confusion of it all! :rolleyes:

[megustaleer]

Heather Luke's Curtains: Over 200 Curtains and Blinds for All Windows by Heather Luke

[Lei-Lei Jayenne]

Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book: Over 200 Classic Recipes by Mary Berry

[Seraphina]

Peace of mind is a piece of cake
Joseph Sinclair et al

Please note i havne't actually READ this or anything!!! :D

[megustaleer]

The Mind of Mr Soames by Charles Eric Maine

[BrumB]

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - HG Wells

[Seraphina]

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - HG Wells


By Robert Louis Stevenson, no?! :)

The Food Doctor Diet - Ian Marber

[megustaleer]

Healing Foods by Miriam Polunin

[BrumB]

Seraphina - thanks - as I typed it I knew it was wrong!

[Darkstar]

The Healing Powers of Vinegar by Cal Orey

I kid you not. :rolleyes:

[Seraphina]

Vinegar: Over 400 Various, Versatile, and Very Good Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of - Vicki Lansky

Who thinks of these things?!?!? :D

[Dream Weaver]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

[Grammath]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[megustaleer]

The Hundred and one Dalmations by Dodie Smith

(did this very quickly, Hope I've got it right!)

[Seraphina]

Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre

[megustaleer]

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

[Seraphina]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Can you tell I'm really bored at work? :p

[BrumB]

The Young Visiters - Daisy Ashford

and, yes, that is the correct spelling!

[Grammath]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Can you tell I'm really bored at work? :p

Seraphina, I hear you, me too :)

Anyway, "Young Adam" by Alexander Trocchi

[megustaleer]

Adam Bede by George Eliot

[BrumB]

Adam & Eve & Pinch Me - Ruth Rendell

[megustaleer]

Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

[Grammath]

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young

[Seraphina]

Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy

[Darkstar]

The Magic Circle by Katherine Neville

[megustaleer]

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

[omega]

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

[Seraphina]

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. It's a book, I swear!!!! :D

[megustaleer]

Davy Crockett: An American Hero by Tom Townsend

[Deinonychus]

(So we can incorporate surnames into titles now??)

The Time of the Hero - Mario Vargas Llosa

[megustaleer]

(So we can incorporate surnames into titles now??)


Sorry! Thought I'd seen it done before!

[megustaleer]

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Grammath]

The Time Machine - H.G.Wells

[megustaleer]

Creative Machine Knitting by Sally-Anne Elliot

[Darkstar]

The Creative Writing Course Book ed. Julia Bell

[Deinonychus]

(Megustaleer: that's the best title yet!)

Monty Python's Big Red Book - Chapman/Cleese/Gilliam/Idol/Jones/Palin

[megustaleer]

(Deinonychus, don't you think my last title ought to have illustrations by Ronald Searle?)

Next title:
The Story of the Little Red Engine by Diana Ross, illustrated by Leslie Wood

[Mad Dog and Glory]

I hope you're not making these up, megustaleer. :eek:

Thomas The Tank Engine - The Rev W Awdry

[megustaleer]

I am a dabbler in many different interests, and can't resist picking up books on whatever my current interest happens to be. My husband is the same, and as we never throw anything away we have a very esoteric 'library'.
I acquired a knitting machine when my children were small. That sentence explains my last two titles!

Am off now to explore my bookshelves for some other long forgotten book. Will start in the spare bedroom, where the children's books live!

[megustaleer]

Ivor the Engine - the Dragon, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin

[BrumB]

Search Engine Optimization for Dummies - P Kent

[Darkstar]

In search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood.

[megustaleer]

Dibs: In Search Of Self by Virginia Axline

(one of my top 10 list!)

[megustaleer]

Kind of Living; Practical Guide to Self Sufficiency by Katie Thear


It's lonely all by myself on this thread. Won't somebody play with me? :(

[Dream Weaver]

OK then, I'll play.

A Kind Of Loving - Stan Barstow

[Tess]

A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram

[Opal]

The Science of DiscWorld II : The Globe - Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen

[Seraphina]

shakespeare's globe - an interactive pop up theatre
Toby Forward et al

[Dream Weaver]

Pop Goes The Weasel - James Patterson

[megustaleer]

Jennings Goes to School by Anthony Buckeridge

[BrumB]

The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith

[Seraphina]

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

[Blodwyn Pigs Might Fly]

Four Blind Mice - James Patterson (again)

[Mad Dog and Glory]

The Blind Assassin - Margaret Attwood

[Darkstar]

The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins

[megustaleer]

Danger Ahead, comprising 'Red Lights' and 'The Watchmaker of Everton' by Georges Simenon.

I must confess to cheating here, Couldn't bear to do a fourth title using 'Blind', so I had a look at Amazon. There are plenty of words to choose from in this one!

[Grammath]

My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk

[BrumB]

Name of the Rose - Umberto Ecco

[Silvergirl]

Rose Madder - Stephen King

[Deinonychus]

Madder Music - Peter de Vries

[BrumB]

Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell

[Dream Weaver]

A Time To Dance - Melvyn Bragg

[Tess]

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

[BrumB]

The Man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sacks

[Grammath]

The Man with the Golden Arm - Nelson Algren

[Seraphina]

The Golden Rules of Interior Design - Laurence Llewellyn Bowen :cool:

Transform your home for only £500! Tasteful..... ;)

[megustaleer]

The Children's Golden Treasure Book, Brimful of Joyous Entertainment
ed. by J.R.Crossland & J.M.Parrish


MD&G, - I honestly didn't make this up, it is on the desk in front of me as I type!

[Tess]

The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming

[BrumB]

The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing

[Mad Dog and Glory]

That's enough 'Goldens'.

Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook - David Flanagan & Brett McLaughlin

[megustaleer]

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

[Darkstar]

The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

[Claire]

White Teeth - by Zadie Smith

[donna1501]

Little White Lies by Emma Blair

[lizzie_odd]

The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Grammath]

Princess Bride - William Goldman

[belinda]

.

[Silvergirl]

Billy Bunter and The Bank Robber - Frank Richards

[scarymary555]

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

[BrumB]

Light on Snow - Anita Shreve

[Tess]

The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen

[Mad Dog and Glory]

Mary Queen Of Scots - Antonia Fraser

[deirdreofthesorrows]

A Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

[Darkstar]

The Concise Scots Dictionary ed Mairi Robinson

[Silvergirl]

Fatal Majesty: The Drama of Mary Queen of Scots
by Reay Tannahill

[megustaleer]

A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine

[Mad Dog and Glory]

Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Inversion - Havelock Ellis

[Claire]

A Handbook of Cognitive Psychology, by Michael Eysenck.....what a favourite textbook that was ;)

[deirdreofthesorrows]

The Hieroglyphs Handbook: teach yourself ancient Egyptian by Philip Ardagh

[Darkstar]

The Orion Prophecy:Egyptian and Mayan prophecies on the cataclysm of 2012, by Patrick Geryl & Gino Ratinckx :rolleyes:

[megustaleer]

Old Testament Prophecy Today by John Goldingay

[BrumB]

The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens

[willow]

That Old Ace In The Hole - Annie Proulx

[ckqd]

:confused: i don't get it.. :o

[Grammath]

:confused: i don't get it.. :o

ckqd, it works by taking one word from the last book title posted and using it to post another book title.

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

[Tess]

Man and Boy - Tony Parsons

[Silvergirl]

About a Boy - Nick Hornby

[Bill]

Megustaleer was following on from Man And Boy rather than About A Boy, so really the next one should still follow About A Boy rather than The Man In The Iron Mask.

[megustaleer]

Oops!
I left the room to look for a specific book with 'Boy' in the title, Couldn't find it, and clearly had forgotten my starting point when I returned.
To go back a step:

Sophie's World: A Novel About The History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder


Now I've made it even more confusing by deleting my mistake. Many apologies!

[Tess]

This has got very confusing, what is Ironhands Daughter following on from, and where did Sophies World come from? Megustaleer you have a lot to answer for :p

[megustaleer]

I'm sorry about making such a mess of this!

I forgot which book i was following, and entered "The Man in The Iron Mask' this was WRONG
Bill pointed out my error, and I deleted the wrong entry, and replaced it with 'Sophie's World' (the connecting word being 'About' in the extended title).
Unfortunately Dierdreofthesorrows had already posted 'Ironhands Daughter', and by removing my incorrect post I had removed any obvious reason for that book to be entered.

The correct sequence is: About a Boy, then "Sophie's World: a Novel About The History of Philosophy

[megustaleer]

The History of Mr Polly by H.G. Wells

[Grammath]

Mr. Phillips - John Lanchester

[Dream Weaver]

Mr Phillips - John Lanchester

[Tess]

I'm sorry about making such a mess of this!



You are forgiven :D

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

[Dream Weaver]

Mr. Phillips - John Lanchester

Mr Phillips - John Lanchester

Spooky. I know I was five minutes behind but I was checking whether I had gone mad, as Amazon were claiming John Lanchester didn't exist, yet I remember reading the novel (another, like Saturday, where everything happens in one day).