The book dialog game - Page 6

poohbear_nc · 08-15-2011, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

Get out of my head, pooh! This is also one of my top ten favorites. So no need to be depressed and start in on the Russians.

I'll hold back and let someone else play, since I was just up.

I'm so glad to find another fan! A magnificent books that should be wider known!

issybird · 08-16-2011, 09:42 AM

There don't seem to be any takers, so I'm claiming this. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford.

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I'm so glad to find another fan! A magnificent books that should be wider known!

Let's hope that some are intrigued enough by our praise that they decide to read it. I agree with you; it's magnificent. Here's a blurb from the Guardian: it's "thought by many to be one of the few stylistically perfect works in any language".

poohbear_nc · 08-16-2011, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by issybird

There don't seem to be any takers, so I'm claiming this. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford.

Let's hope that some are intrigued enough by our praise that they decide to read it. I agree with you; it's magnificent. Here's a blurb from the Guardian: it's "thought by many to be one of the few stylistically perfect works in any language".

Take it away issybird! And yes - it is "stylistically perfect!"

issybird · 08-16-2011, 11:16 AM

Let's go from the sublime to the sewer.

"Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but yet fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases."

HomeInMyShoes · 08-16-2011, 12:46 PM

Dang that's familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.

poohbear_nc · 08-16-2011, 12:46 PM

Lady Chatterly's Lover?

issybird · 08-16-2011, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Lady Chatterly's Lover?

Think much trashier than that. American, from my neck of the woods.

poohbear_nc · 08-16-2011, 02:20 PM

Hmmmm .... trashy prose from New England ....

issybird · 08-16-2011, 02:38 PM

...written by a housewife in blue jeans...

Am I the only person here who read trash as an adolescent? Maybe you have to be of a certain age to have heard of this book, but it is (or was, lol) a pretty famous first line.

Hamlet53 · 08-16-2011, 02:43 PM

I have a guess I could offer. I don't know it it would be considered fair though. I don't recognize the quote, and have never even read the book. But based on the other clues offered so far I am seeing a very young Mia Farrow . . .?

issybird · 08-16-2011, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hamlet53

But based on the other clues offered so far I am seeing a very young Mia Farrow . . .?

Bingo!

Guess away.

Hamlet53 · 08-16-2011, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by issybird

Bingo!

Guess away.

Peyton Place it is then.

poohbear_nc · 08-16-2011, 03:26 PM

I've never read Peyton Place .... would never have associated such lush language with it!

issybird · 08-16-2011, 03:33 PM

Hamlet is onstage.

orlok · 08-16-2011, 03:36 PM

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead?

(It's a play, not sure it was ever a book...?)

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08-16-2011, 11:16 AM	#79
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,514 Karma: 236076651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Let's go from the sublime to the sewer. "Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but yet fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases."

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HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	Dang that's familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.

08-16-2011, 12:46 PM	#81
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 64,191 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Lady Chatterly's Lover?

08-16-2011, 02:20 PM	#83
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 64,191 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Hmmmm .... trashy prose from New England ....

08-16-2011, 02:38 PM	#84
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,514 Karma: 236076651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	...written by a housewife in blue jeans... Am I the only person here who read trash as an adolescent? Maybe you have to be of a certain age to have heard of this book, but it is (or was, lol) a pretty famous first line.

08-16-2011, 02:43 PM	#85
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	I have a guess I could offer. I don't know it it would be considered fair though. I don't recognize the quote, and have never even read the book. But based on the other clues offered so far I am seeing a very young Mia Farrow . . .?

08-16-2011, 03:26 PM	#88
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 64,191 Karma: 135242149 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	I've never read Peyton Place .... would never have associated such lush language with it!

08-16-2011, 03:33 PM	#89
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,514 Karma: 236076651 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Hamlet is onstage.

08-16-2011, 03:36 PM	#90
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead? (It's a play, not sure it was ever a book...?)