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Take three books
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 05, 2011 10:47AM

Take Three Books

Here's a nice little game lifted from last centurie's New Statesman magazine. Take the titles of three well knownish books and link them together to form a pithy story.

Egg samples...On the Beach; Jaws; A Farewell to Arms.

The Virgin Soldiers; Brief Encounter; Blacks Medical Dictionary

Whiskey Galore; Joy in the Morning; Death in the afternoon.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: October 06, 2011 12:51PM

Three men in a boat; A bend in the river; Watership down.

The Idiot; The turn of the screw; The fall of the House of Usher.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-183.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 07, 2011 12:34PM

The Road to Wigan Pie; The Wayward Bus; Hunger.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: October 07, 2011 12:38PM

The grapes of wrath, nausea, gone with the wind.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/2011 12:39PM by geg.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: October 07, 2011 12:44PM

The Wives of Bath, Cupcakes and Cookies, Vile Bodies.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: Eoink (---.range86-163.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 07, 2011 03:39PM

Tom Brown's Schooldays, the Master and Margarita, Hangover Square.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: October 09, 2011 10:16AM

Great Expectations, Whiskey Galore, Vile Bodies

Re: Take three books
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: October 09, 2011 10:19AM

The Pregnant Widow, Money, Dead Babies

Re: Take three books
Posted by: Eoink (---.oxfd.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: October 09, 2011 02:32PM

The Lion King, Pride and Prejudice, The Cat who walked by himself.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 23, 2011 11:15AM

Three men in a boat

The lady of the lake

The water babies

Re: Take three books
Posted by: old boiler (---.range86-182.btcentralplus.com)
Date: October 23, 2011 04:53PM

Wow I've just thought of another one

Good King Wenceslas

Walking on Glass

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

(the final s is on a pie somewhere)

Re: Take three books
Posted by: MartinB (---.dynamic.isadsl.co.za)
Date: October 23, 2011 07:29PM

The Once and Future King
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Affair

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Take three books
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: October 24, 2011 05:49AM

Edited because I put it in the wrong thread.

Ain't I a richard cranium?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2011 03:01AM by bunyip.

Re: Take three books
Posted by: bunyip (---.pa.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: November 23, 2011 11:52AM

Womens Weekly Gardening Book

The Island of Dr Moreau

Day of the Triffids

Re: Take three books
Posted by: old boiler (---.range81-151.btcentralplus.com)
Date: December 01, 2011 10:07AM

The Big Over Easy

The Wimbledon Poisoner

The Falling Man

Re: Take three books
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: December 29, 2011 01:53PM

Clearing the Air: The Battle over the Smoking Ban (Noel Gilmore)

An Addict's Tale (Carlos Wilmot)

Snuff (Terry Pratchett)

Re: Take three books
Posted by: Marit (---.tbcn.telia.com)
Date: December 31, 2011 01:14PM

The Prince (Niccolo Macchiavelli)

Identity (Milan Kundera)

The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)



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