What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Let's play a game...
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "27) Tripedal monsters destroy the human economy, because of baleful astronomical influences.Possibly (view spoiler) ?
Sorry Mike, not quite. :)
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Sorry Mike, not quite. :)"Hmm... It would likely involve (view spoiler), then? If so, I'll leave it unanswered, for others.
Hmm, I no know marionettes... and I would like to.Write a stumper with them :D
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Hmm, I no know marionettes... and I would like to.Write a stumper with them :D"
Well, it's not marionettes, but the controllers of marionettes, that are important. And if you don't know of them...
Oh, well. Here goes:
29. Fit the whole Earth on your wedding finger? Controllers of marionettes reveal past indiscretions. Much adventure ensues.
Ahh, perhaps your second guess is correct... since you're carefully not using some words :)
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "you're carefully not using some words :)"Indeed not. I'd be sacked from the Guild of Crossword Puzzlers.
Sorry Valerie, I wasn't thinking of that one.Btw, did you read _Foundation_?
Juels wrote: "#24 [spoilers removed] ??"No, sorry. As with my earlier efforts, everything in the clue refers (perhaps cryptically) to something in the book.
I understand what #29 would be but I can't think of a book to go along with it.
Cynthia, that would be the first part of the clue. :)ie: I know specifically what book 29 is, and I'm not saying. :D :D
Nope Kimber, sorry.You might want to check out the clues for 29... I'm surprised nobody has guessed the 'aliens with three-legged machines yet'...
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Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Sorry Valerie, I wasn't thinking of that one.Btw, did you read _Foundation_?"
Just getting it now. Although I am one of the most voracious readers in the known universe, there are a few conspicuous holes in my repertoire. I confess I have never read Asimov. This oversight is soon to be rectified!
Are we going to put a time limit on these, after which the OP has to reveal the secret?
I wasn't planning a time-limit. But I s'pose if you begged the OP to reveal (preferably off-list), and they choose to - it would be fine. :)
Scott wrote: "18) [spoilers removed]?"That is incorrect.
Scott wrote: "29)[spoilers removed]"You are correct. And the Pierson's Puppeteers send greetings.
Cumbling Michael wrote: "25) Single mom gets job in male-dominated field, is chosen for a special assignment."(view spoiler)"
lol I love that guess
Is #28 (view spoiler)? I've never read it but I love the movie (view spoiler), which was based on it.
If you're the poser of the question, when someone gets it right and you say "You are correct," could you please repeat the answer in your post (under a spoiler tag) so we don't have to go hunting for the poster?
Michele wrote: "If you're the poser of the question, when someone gets it right and you say "You are correct," could you please repeat the answer in your post (under a spoiler tag) so we don't have to go hunting f..."OK.
Scott wrote: "29)(view spoiler)"
You are correct. And the Pierson's Puppeteers send greetings."
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And Michael, since it appears people aren't paying any attention... do you want to answer 27 with your correct guess? :)
Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "And Michael, since it appears people aren't paying any attention... do you want to answer 27 with your correct guess? :)"Well, since you mentioned aliens with three-legged robots, I'm not at all sure it -is- the correct guess.
But, FWIW, here's my reasoning, and the guess that goes with it:
27. (view spoiler).
But there's no aliens with three legged robots.
:)
Well, the after-effects are discussed in that novel (and subsequent novels), and yes that's the correct short story - but which book is it in? (either would be considered correct).And yes, that's why I didn't use triradial symmetry. :)
But I was thinking that there's another popular book, that has tripedal machines and malevolent aliens in it... and I was surprised that wasn't coming up in guesses.
I just noticed - this thread appears to have 240 posts, but only 161 views. Surely that's impossible? I mean, everyone who posts, also views. But some people (I would have thought, the majority) just view. How can there be twice as many posts as views?
Scott wrote: "25) [spoilers removed]?"No, but that's a great book! And a good guess :)
Maybe 161 unique people viewed it? A lot of us posted more than once.
Michael is correct for #27 (view spoiler) and the un-numbered one as well :)re: number of views, Sophie is correct: she posted two posts and viewed once (2 hrs ago), for example. And I've done a lot of double posts and single views, what with the updates.
I don't know what's going on where everyone else is, but here in the UK we're having our general election today. So I'll probably be up until 4 or 5 a.m. watching the results come in. In the spirit of clearing the backlog, and possible atonement for books that were too obscure, or clues that were too hard, I offer the following extras:
21) A long walk for linemen harassed by robot bird.
Extra clue - 250 years ago, 2 men drew a very long line. In America. In 1997, a famously reclusive person wrote about it.
24) I gave you my heart. You gave me Napoleon's chicken. Trust me...
Extra clue - Female British author. Her most famous book was about oranges (but they're not the only things). This 1987 novel could be the name of another fruit.
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In another thread someone asked about photo views and the official response was:
Photo views aren't by individual separate users viewing your photos. They are counted by what we call "user sessions." So if your friend views your photo, logs out of Goodreads, then later logs back in and views your photo again, that would count as two views.
I assume thread views are counted the same.
Someone else mentioned that the unique views are by cookie - there's a fresh cookie assigned to you every time you log in.
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Extra clue - 250 years ago, 2 men drew a very long line. In America. In 1997, a famously reclusive person wrote about it.
Okay then (view spoiler)
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Extra clue - Female British author. Her most famous book was about oranges (but they're not the only things). This 1987 novel could be the name of another fruit.
(view spoiler)?
Lobstergirl wrote: "21) A long walk for linemen harassed by robot bird.Extra clue - 250 years ago, 2 men drew a very long line. In America. In 1997, a famously reclusive person wrote about it.
Okay then (view spoiler)"
You are correct. You are awarded some free punctuation marks. "!*&^.
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Cynthia wrote: "Is 24 [spoilers removed] She has another book with a fruity title."Ah, you're not -quite- there, but so -very- close. The book I'm looking for is not the one with oranges in it. But it -could- be another kind of fruit.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "I think those were too difficult without the clues. Never read either of them..."If you hadn't read them, they -would- be difficult. Perhaps impossible. That's why I gave the extra clues. But they were both very popular books, by very famous authors.
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What's the Name of That Book???
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Read those, and then decide if you want to get into the series.
Classics are classics for a reason, and these aren't too bad, even for people who have computers (they were on the cusp of invention when these stories were written; in fact Isaac wrote a book on how to use a slide-rule... 23 years later).
Ps, google is your friend (+pdf)