The name of the book game, V2.0

[Robin]

The game is like this: a person gives some description, conditions etc, and someone else has to give the title of a book that match the description. The one who answers correctly get to post another question.

E.g.

Q: Give me one book that has the day of the week in the title?
A: Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix


Rules:
-Only fiction is allowed. Both Malay and English books can be included.
-Title and author needed to be given
-If you think the question is too hard, you can give a hint. Maximum only three!
-If no one can answer, or had reached 3 hints, well, you had to give another question (or someone else can take over)
-If it is about a very specific book, please say so.
-Be creative!
-We'll see how this goes.



I'll start with an easy one

1. Give me one book that has a fruit name in its title? Whatever fruit :)




(Now, for the life of me I can't remember where I first saw this kind of game before - guess the song game? And is it in the correct folder?)

[Kataklicik]

A: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe A Novel by Fannie Flagg

Do I post the question directly? Ke kena tunggu Robin kata pass dulu? And weiii, tomato tu buah okay; buah yang kita sayurkan :) Hehehe since saya penuh confident jawapan saya okay -

Q: Book with weird characters, including a rabbit yang sokmo lambat, a queen yang suka pancung rakyat, and a caterpillar smoking what we today call a shisha pipe yg popular sgt kat cafes merata Klang Valley?

[Robin]

Kataklicik, apasal jawapan susah sangat, saya siap google betul ker tomato tu buah, hahaha.. (teruk betul general knowledge saya ya)

Betul lah tu, kalau soalan macam saya tu tak yah tunggu pun takpe, terus bagi jawapan :p

Soalan kataklicik kena pikir dulu nih, macam tau tapi bab shisha pipe dah tak sure dah

[Hannah]

Shisha pipe?? Lol, what the heck is that?

[Ulya A.K]

Kataklicik wrote: "Q: Book with weird characters, including a rabbit yang sokmo lambat, a queen yang suka pancung rakyat, and a caterpillar smoking what we today call a shisha pipe yg popular sgt kat cafes merata Klang Valley?..."

Alice in Wonderland.. although i havent read that book in ages, so kinda getting confuse whether the smoking caterpillar was in the book or in the animated version.. hehe..

[Kataklicik]

Ulya! Correct! Tapi mana subsequent question weiii?

(Obviously Hannah is an innocent babe in the woods hehehe)

[Robin]

Hmm.. maybe we need to change the rules a bit then? So the person who had answered can just post the next question without waiting for the poster to reply 'yes, you're correct?'

[Ulya A.K]

Whoops.. forgot to post the question pulak. Itu la bahaya nya updating Goodreads in the middle of month end closing.. hehe..

Q: Give me a book that has a one word title.

[Hannah]

It by Stephen King

Next Q: (assuming my answer is acceptable) Title of a book that starts with the letter W


Kataklicik wrote: "(Obviously Hannah is an innocent babe in the woods hehehe)"
Yeah well, innocent is my middle name =p

[Ayscha]

A: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

acceptable tak jwpn ni? =)

[Ayscha]

Well, assuming my answer is correct, this is the next question..this is simple:

Q: The title consist of a name of a place =)

[Najibah, Penterjemah yang mencintai kata-kata]

Ayscha, biar saya cuba.

A: Hatiku terluka di Bukhara - dah betul rasanya :)

Q: A book in which the main character was born with club foot.

[Faizah Roslaini]

Najibah wrote: "Ayscha, biar saya cuba.

A: Hatiku terluka di Bukhara - dah betul rasanya :)

Q: A book in which the main character was born with club foot."

Demm..susahla. I think I came across it tapi tak ingat ah title dia.

[Najibah, Penterjemah yang mencintai kata-kata]

He he he... Klu pertama: Buku ini boleh dicapai (diakses) di Project Gutenberg :)

[Hannah]

Project Gutenberg? A classic?

[Peesha]

Aduh .. tak leh nak join lagi ... sbb mostly tak baca lagi ... huhu

[Najibah, Penterjemah yang mencintai kata-kata]

Hannah, sort of... :D

@Peesha, tak baca pun tak apa. Asalkan tahu sinopsis, kebanyakan soalannya akan dapat dijawab.

[Kataklicik]

Najibah! Main character with a club foot? Dang, I'm stumped!!

[Ayscha]

uh..this is a hard one...hurmmmm

[Robin]

Susah ni.. Nak try gak..
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.

-Klasik. Ni tengok dari wikipedia, betul ke jawapan ni? Tak pernah baca, so tak confirm..

Edit: clubfoot dalam Bahasa Melayu sebenarnya apa?

[Peesha]

Robin wrote:
Edit: clubfoot dalam Bah..."

Ikut kamus Dewan BI-BM (2002) - clubfoot = kaki tombol ...

[Najibah, Penterjemah yang mencintai kata-kata]

Wah... Bravo Robin :). The answer's correct!

;) To be honest, I haven't finish the book myself. But I have such an intense feeling when reading its first few chapters when I was a student - it stayed with me even until now. The solitariness of the main character's soul still haunting me.

@Peesha, boleh jadi munsyi dewan ;)

BTW, tengah tunggu soalan Robin sekarang

[Robin]

Hehe tak sangka betul jawapan saya rupanya :)

OK soalan saya senang sangat la:

Q: The title of the book consists of only numbers.

[Hannah]

1984 by George Orwell?

Or do you have another specific book in mind?

[Robin]

Nope, general question je. So ok jawapan tu :)

Soalan Hannah plak?

[Hannah]

How bout:

Q: A book which the main character is autistic and mathematically gifted?

[Peesha]

Rain Man by Leonore Fleischer?

Assuming my answer is correct, here's my question:

The character nearly get fired for eating a sandwich.

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Peesha wrote: The character nearly get fired for eating a sandwich."

Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt?

Wait, that's a biography and Robin said the book must be a fiction so I guess I'm wrong.

[Peesha]

Khairul H. wrote: Wait, that's a biography and Robin said the book must be a fiction so I guess I'm ..."

Sorry, I missed the rule saying that it must be a fiction :p

I re-post my question, if it is OK ..

Q: She was a designer baby that born as to keep someone alive

[Hannah]

Err.. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult?

lol! what's a designer's baby anyway?

[Peesha]

Hannah:
Designer baby is a baby that genetically programmed -- kiranya parent dia boleh personalize nak anak yg macam mana ... kat M'sia ada yg dah buat, tp byknya diam2 je ... since playing god isn't something tolerable in most religions ...

Mana soalan lainnya hannah?

[Hannah]

Peesha wrote: "Mana soalan lainnya hannah?
"
oops, sorry, didn't expect it to be right :p

oic... hehe.. tak pernah tahu plak stuff like designer babies ni. thanks, 'munsyi dewan' :D



Q: This book's (quite) famous line is: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen


Here's a very easy one:

She is regarded as the best female author of crime fiction and in one of her famous novels, everybody did it. That is, all the suspects were guilty of committing the crime.

Told you it was easy ;)

[Kataklicik]

Tu easy ke..?

Not for me hahahaha

[Hannah]

lol. easy huh?
I'm gonna make a wild guess here: Agatha Christie? Hehe... making everyone the culprit sounds like what she would do.

[Kataklicik]

Presumably it's Christie, tapi which book yg engkome maksudkan ni? Sebab as I remember it, she makes it appear as though everyone is suspect tapi the one yang macam innocent tu yg sebenarnya guilty!!

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Gee, no one here has ever read Christie, huh? Yes, it is Agatha Christie so Hannah is correct about the author.

As for the title...well, it's famous because in this book all the suspects were guilty (everybody did it). ALL 12 OF THEM. Never been done before in crime fiction.

Another hint: The murder takes place on a train and the detective is the famous Hercule Poirot.

[Ayscha]

I know the answer!

but I didn't read the book, just search in wikipedia, found agatha christie, then found the novel..

hehe..does that considered cheating?? (0_0)

but I'm not gonna answer though, I'll just give somebody else the chance..hahaha (^_^)

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Well, somebody has to answer it! Might as well be you since you know (and I dont think it's considered cheating if you do a search. That's what most people here did anyway)

So what's the answer? And what's your question?

[Faizah Roslaini]

Khairul H. wrote: "Well, somebody has to answer it! Might as well be you since you know (and I dont think it's considered cheating if you do a search. That's what most people here did anyway)

So what's the answer?..."

Aku nak tembak.Murder on the Orient Express

Sebab ada ketapi? Betui ka? hahaa

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Ya betul.

Apa soalan Faizah pulak?

[Faizah Roslaini]

Buku mana ya, nak soal ni.. hmmmm..OK. Here it goes:

A Muslim version of X-men which even refers to Harry Potter as ahli sihir bodoh?

hehehe

[Faizah Roslaini]

Oppss.. takde orang jawab lah. Did I just kill the thread?

Okay, I'm gonna give some clue.

The review appeared with a 'certain friction' in Malay Mail.

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Aiya, tak baca MM le. Search kat google pun takde. Ni buku made in Msia ke buku impot?

[Faizah Roslaini]

Buku Malaysia. Bahasa Melayu.

Erm.. you can try searching for Pulp Friction by Amir Muhammad.

Or better yet, just search for Amir Muhammad.

[Ayscha]

sungguh mencabar soalan kak faizah ni..

[Najmuddin, Tok Mudin]

Saya rasa saya tahu. Tapi malas nak jawab. Alah, kalau Peija senang saja... FT, FT.

:D

[Faizah Roslaini]

Najmuddin wrote: "Saya rasa saya tahu. Tapi malas nak jawab. Alah, kalau Peija senang saja... FT, FT.

:D"

Hehehe..itu pun clue jugak Mudin.

Tapi that review by Amir Muhammad memang kelakor.

[Khairul Hezry, I hate people but not you. You, I like.]

Faizah Roslaini wrote: "Buku mana ya, nak soal ni.. hmmmm..OK. Here it goes:

A Muslim version of X-men which even refers to Harry Potter as ahli sihir bodoh?

hehehe"

Dah jumpa kat blog amir muhammad: DETEKTIF INDIGO - Faisal Tehrani.

Betul ke?

[Faizah Roslaini]

Ha ah. Betui..!! yeay.. Soalannya pulak?