Book Help II

[chrisboote]

Suddenly remembered, it's Alan Dean Foster, in his short story collection "With Friends Like This" or "Who Needs Enemies"

Neither available to download

[Whos Wee Dug]

You can get on Kindle Chris. Amazon £ 4.99
With Friends Like These (With Friends ... Book 1) Kindle Edition

[steeljam]

Book scorpions patrol piles of old books eating up dust mites and booklice.

I wonder if they can also take care of 303 Bookworms?

[Grace Speaker]

Book scorpions patrol piles of old books eating up dust mites and booklice.

I wonder if they can also take care of 303 Bookworms?

[Grace Speaker]

Caboodle/National Book Tokens are running another 'Guess the Book title' game again to win a year's supply of books:

http://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/

I got to 17/20 quite quickly, but then got stuck and had to go and make a couple of tea to get the old grey matter working. Got there in the end, but have to admit to not having read at least 6 of them in the list

[chrisboote]

Caboodle/National Book Tokens are running another 'Guess the Book title' game again to win a year's supply of books:

http://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/

I got to 17/20 quite quickly, but then got stuck and had to go and make a couple of tea to get the old grey matter working. Got there in the end, but have to admit to not having read at least 6 of them in the list

I found this to be the easiest one they've set so far
Only one caused me a lot of headscratching - until I googled for the correct title

[Grace Speaker]

Caboodle/National Book Tokens are running another 'Guess the Book title' game again to win a year's supply of books:

http://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/

I got to 17/20 quite quickly, but then got stuck and had to go and make a couple of tea to get the old grey matter working. Got there in the end, but have to admit to not having read at least 6 of them in the list

I found this to be the easiest one they've set so far
Only one caused me a lot of headscratching - until I googled for the correct title

I thought so too, the only one I had a real struggle with was the Gravediggers one. But they're still fun to do . . . maybe an idea for a future DWCon or Drummers quiz . . .?

[chrisboote]

I like that idea..

[Pat]

Here's a book puzzle for you...

Lot's of books have titles which are quotations/phrases from other books, plays or poems e.g. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" comes from Burns' "To A Mouse" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is from Bacon's Scottish play.

Can you think of longer chains? A book whose title comes from a book whose title comes from another book?

[Grace Speaker]

Here's a book puzzle for you...

Lot's of books have titles which are quotations/phrases from other books, plays or poems e.g. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" comes from Burns' "To A Mouse" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is from Bacon's Scottish play.

Can you think of longer chains? A book whose title comes from a book whose title comes from another book?

Most of the ones that I can think of are from the scribbling of that Shakespeare bloke, unless these titles from Spike Milligan, mayherestinpeace, count?:
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall
Monty: His Part In My Victory

[Pat]

Here's a book puzzle for you...

Lot's of books have titles which are quotations/phrases from other books, plays or poems e.g. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" comes from Burns' "To A Mouse" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is from Bacon's Scottish play.

Can you think of longer chains? A book whose title comes from a book whose title comes from another book?

Most of the ones that I can think of are from the scribbling of that Shakespeare bloke, unless these titles from Spike Milligan, mayherestinpeace, count?:
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall
Monty: His Part In My Victory

Not quite what I'm after - those don't form a chain.

If I wrote a book with the title "I was a bindlestiff myself", then that book would take its title from "Of Mice and Men" which gets its title from "To A Mouse" - each title comes from the text of the next book in the chain.

[chrisboote]

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is titled with a direct reference to a chapter in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which gets its title from the line in Macbeth ("By the pricking of my thumbs ...") which itself took its title from the corruption of the name MacBest* in Boece's Scotorum Historiae**

So will a four-book chain do you?

* Yes, MacBest - the name the German translators gave to Wyrd Sisters

** Coo, O level English Lit finally useful

[Pat]

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is titled with a direct reference to a chapter in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which gets its title from the line in Macbeth ("By the pricking of my thumbs ...") which itself took its title from the corruption of the name MacBest* in Boece's Scotorum Historiae**

So will a four-book chain do you?

* Yes, MacBest - the name the German translators gave to Wyrd Sisters

** Coo, O level English Lit finally useful

Not keen on the first for two reasons - firstly, I should probably have said "novel" rather than "book". I think if we accept non-fiction, it's too easy to build chains of increasing specialisation as someone writes a book which addresses material in a chapter of a previous reference book (made up example "Biology"->"Cell structure"->"The nucleus"->"The nuclear membrane"->"Transmembrane receptor structure"). And secondly, but most importantly, the name "Macbeth" does not appear in "Scotorum Historiae".

And the word "dreamcatcher" does not, on the basis of a quick search, appear in the text of SWTWC, so I think I'll have to reject that one too.

I'm struggling to think of one myself, even a three-chain.

[chrisboote]

Crikey! I definitely remember Stephen King talking about it. I must be confusing it with another book that he was talking about it

I'll see if the interview is online

And Macbeth not in Scotorum Historiae? I was taught that as an article of faith in school

[Pat]

And Macbeth not in Scotorum Historiae? I was taught that as an article of faith in school

I haven't checked but you said that MacBest is in Scotorum Historiae and that MacBeth is a "corruption" of it.