The Numbers Game.

[Stephen]

This game is pretty simple to play, not as simple to explain...

One simply cites a book title that incorporates a number that is one more than was previously cited. Since not all numbers are used in book titles gaps are permissable but if someone can cite a title they gain bragging rights by typing CHALLENGE and filling in the gap.

To keep things moving one CAN concede by starting a new series but no book titles should be reused. If they are THAT can be challenged by citing the number of the post.

[Stephen]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

The Two Towers

[Jan]

The Three Musketeers

[Ruth]

Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Agatha Christie)

[Jan]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Rainbow Six

[Jan]

Seven Years in Tibet

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

When Eight Bells Toll

[Jana]

Nine Stories ( J. D. Salinger)

[Ruth]

Ten Little Indians (Sherman Alexie)

[Jan]

Eleven Minutes

[Stephen]

The Dirty Dozen 12 angry men would be too easy

[Carol]

Lean Mean Thirteen

[Ken, Moderator]

The Fourteen Little Peppers and How They Grew

[Stephen]

Sybil: The True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed By Sixteen Separate Personalities

[Savvy]

Eating Soup With Chopsticks: Sweet Sixteen in Japan

[Carol]

Seventeen Against the Dealer

[Stephen]

How about a classic... Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

And another....
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

[Ken, Moderator]

Click "add book/author" right above the box you type in. Then click "cover." If you don't click "cover" you get a link in words. With cover, you get, as you say, "the picture up." (Exciting!)

[Carol]

The Twenty-One Balloons

[Jan]

Catch 22

[Jan]

Four and twenty Blackbirds

[Stephen]

Oops. Officially Jan your answer violates the already used rule. (See post 5) But how bout we replace it with Two Dozen Donuts? or if those are baker's dozens we've got 26!

Though I gotta say I'm kinda curious about Twenty-six Princesses

[Ken, Moderator]

The Twenty-Seven Little Peppers and How They Grew

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

[Carol]

June 29, 1999

[Stephen]

Newengland wrote: "The Twenty-Seven Little Peppers and How They Grew"

um... I thought that was the FIVE little peppers. It was when you used it the first time ;-)

Perhaps you should have gone with
Twenty-Seven Bones


Guess what they say is true... Never trust anyone over thirty. But that would include me too. I'm Pushing 30 ... unfortunately from the wrong side...

[Jan]

The Ozymandias Principles: Thirty-One Strategies for Surviving Challenge

[Carol]

32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics

[Ruth]

The 33 Strategies of War
by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

[Carol]

34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in Lebanon

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hannah at Thirty-five

[Carol]

36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan

[Ruth]

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
by Jan Zwicky

[Ken, Moderator]

(The Peppers keep growing -- exponentially.)

[Savvy]

Thirty-eight Witnesses

[Carol]

The 39 Steps

[Stephen]

can't decide between North Dallas Forty and Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule (Jean Karl Books

[Carol]

41 Stories (Signet Classics

[Ken, Moderator]

Isn't it good we have a search box on the upper right to enter numbers (and Peppers) into?

[Carol]

yeah!

[Stephen]

Now who's being curmudgeonly NE? I swear. It sounds like you'd like to 86 the whole game.

[Savvy]

Summer of 42!....Thanks NE!

[Carol]

Over My Dead Body: 43 Old Cemetery Road:

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Forty-four Presidents

[Ruth]

The Forty-Five Guardsmen
by Alexandre Dumas

[Carol]

47

[Ruth]

The First 48
by Tim Green