The book dialog game

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by issybird

Sliced like a knife I know, but I'll let it ride for other players. Peppermint creams has me stymied.

If you've never read any of the series, the quote is meaningless. If you've read even one book of the series, it's obvious.

Hence the second book to guess on.

[Daithi]

I don't have a clue on either one of them.

However, I'm ticked off that I missed And Then There Were None, because I've read that book. I knew something sounded familiar, but just couldn't place it.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I'm in the meaningless camp. Damn all that time I spent reading Wired magazine.

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

And for the non-mystery fans, another book to guess:

"She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on... far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."

So this is Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The other offering I have no more idea than any others here.

[poohbear_nc]

Yes - Mrs. Dalloway - the most famous flower shopper in literature!

Take it away Hamlet!

No mystery fans, eh? Answer in spoiler tag.

Spoiler:

George Gently - popular mostly in Britain - even had a TV series - but I don't remember them including his addiction to peppermint creams - too much like Kojak and his lollipops?

[issybird]

Glad you're still out and about, pooh, at least virtually.

[Daithi]

Yep, no way I was going to get either one of them. The only thing I've read done by Virginia Woolf was To the Lighthouse and I absolutely hated it. The way she goes into what everybody is thinking is like listening to my grandmother tell a story. "I went to the store to buy some milk, and was wearing shoes, but these shoes hurt my feet. Do you remember that TV show with the agony of defeat? When I was a kid we didn't have TV...." Somebody just shoot me.

As long as my Google skills are up to the task, poohbear's other book looks really good. It looks like they made a BBC TV series out of the books, and at least one of them is available on Netflix.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Daithi

Yep, no way I was going to get either one of them. The only thing I've read done by Virginia Woolf was To the Lighthouse and I absolutely hated it. The way she goes into what everybody is thinking is like listening to my grandmother tell a story. "I went to the store to buy some milk, and was wearing shoes, but these shoes hurt my feet. Do you remember that TV show with the agony of defeat? When I was a kid we didn't have TV...." Somebody just shoot me.

As long as my Google skills are up to the task, poohbear's other book looks really good. It looks like they made a BBC TV series out of the books, and at least one of them is available on Netflix.

Woolf is definitely a love/hate type of author. You either love "wallowing" in the characters' thoughts or you don't.

The Gently books are fun reads - I also enjoyed the TV series on DVD - quite loosely based on the books - but Martin Shaw was perfect in the role.

I'll be around (virtually) - power company willing!

So I anticipate that this should be easy:

He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death.

Pooh it is usually power that falls first. From the morning coverage it looks like NC is getting hit first?

Well apparently not that easy. Second clue:


As he gazed around him the youth felt a flash of astonishment at the blue, pure sky and the sun gleaming on the trees and fields. It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.”

[poohbear_nc]

Heart of Darkness?

Billy Budd?

[coast of NC got hit hard - we got lots of wind]

So two more clues. The second hidden is a spoiler tag because it is such a pointer.

He felt the subtle battle brotherhood more potent even than the cause for which they were fighting.

Spoiler:

At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a . . .

[issybird]

...Red Badge of Courage.

I needed the spoiler.

Originally Posted by issybird

...Red Badge of Courage.

I needed the spoiler.

Correct. I am surprised someone was not able to get it from the first clue. That is a line I've always remembered.

[issybird]

The lights are already flickering here and we're still hours away from the worst of the storm, so if someone could step into the breach I'd be grateful. I probably won't be around to service a quote. First comer has it.