The book dialog game

[Daithi]

Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Daithi

Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Yes! Correct! Unforgettable (?) prose ....

Take it away Daithi!

[issybird]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I don't think I ever made it through Wuthering Heights in one read - the characters are so aggravating!

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Better than I've ever done. Four times in my life I have set out to read that and I never made it more than a third of the way through. On the last attempt I just acknowledged that it would never be.

LOL! What's the phrase? Women are from Venus, men are from Pluto which is too close even though it's not a planet anymore anyway?

All I can say is that as a teenager my copy got so tattered I had to invest in a new one.

[Daithi]

You probably could have quoted 95% of the book and I wouldn't have remembered any of it, but for some reason "let a woman do what she may" rang a bell.

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Ok, here's mine from a book I just read recently--

"Isolated from the contrast of normal society, the society in the house became the norm. Total self-indulgence became the norm. Debauchery became the norm. Brutality and carnage soon became the norm."

[poohbear_nc]

Animal Farm?

[Daithi]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Animal Farm?

Nope.

Here's a little fuller quote, which might make it a little easier

"The house became their way of life. A way of life that grew a little more insane each day. Isolated from the contrast of normal society, the society in the house became the norm. Total self-indulgence became the norm. Debauchery became the norm. Brutality and carnage soon became the norm."

P.S. I like the "Hurricane Irene!" tag. It fits your avatar perfectly.

Something by Marquis de Sade? Juliette maybe?

[poohbear_nc]

Joyce Carol Oates?

[Daithi]

It does sound like the Marquis de Sade. That's a great guess, but this book is from the 1970s. Here's a little more, and it includes a characters name, which I think may be one hell of a clue.

"Still, it wasn't exclusively sex. The principle of excess was applied to every phase of their life here. Dining became gluttony, drinking turned to drunkenness, Drug addiction mounted. And, as the physical spectrum of his guests was perverted, so, too, was their mental."
"How?" asked Barrett.
"Visualize twenty to thirty people set loose upon each other mentally-- encouraged to do whatever they wanted to one another; no limits set but those of imagination. As their minds began to open up-- or close in, if you like-- so did every aspect of their lives together. People stayed here months then years. The house became their way of life. A way of life that grew a little more insane each day. Isolated from the contrast of normal society, the society in the house became the norm. Total self-indulgence became the norm. Debauchery became the norm. Brutality and carnage soon became the norm."

[Daithi]

A little more with character names--

"How did it end?" asked Barrett.
"If it ended, would we be here?"
"It will end now," Florence said.
Barrett persisted. "What happened to Belasco?"
"No one knows," said Fischer. "When relatives of some of his guests had the house broken into in November of 1929, everyone inside was dead-- twenty-seven of them.
"Belasco was not among them."

8:46 P.M.

[poohbear_nc]

Shirley Jackson?

[Daithi]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Shirley Jackson?

Oh, so much closer.

One more hint, this book isn't a legend.

[issybird]

I got nothin'.

[Daithi]

The book is often mentioned whenever Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is mentioned, and it was also made into a decent movie starring Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall -- although the book is better.

[Daithi]

The author of the book also wrote "I am Legend".