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Book group question
Posted by: Anonymous User (193.63.207.---)
Date: February 15, 2008 02:52PM

I have just finished reading "Silent in the grave" (which I would recomend except to my grandma as there is sex!) and I found some book group questions at the back however they were quite amusing as they seemed to be GCSE grade essay questions (and as a trainee teacher I should know). I felt I needed the cliff notes and an A4 piece of paper to answer them! They seemed rediculously hard for a group who are esentially there to socialise. Anyway I thought it would be fun if jasper included some book group questions at the end of his next book but make them Ffunny.

i.e. What similarities are there between Pickwick in real life and Pickwick5?

Any other suggestions?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: HouseInTheWoods (81.102.13.---)
Date: February 15, 2008 03:42PM

Mycroft's ghost is an example of paranormal manifestations in the TN series. As Supreme Evil Beings paranormal manifiestations, mythological creatures or psychological transferences from other characters?

<BTW, if she's your grandmother, I'm sure she's found out about sex...> :)

Re: Book group question
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.104.---)
Date: February 15, 2008 04:25PM

Consider the ethical issues surrounding cloning. Discuss. All of them. In great detail. Some maniacal cackling may be required.

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Re: Book group question
Posted by: robert (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: February 15, 2008 09:59PM

Discuss Chapter 13.

Re: Book group question
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: February 17, 2008 12:58AM

Just had an idea, wouldn't it be cool to door knock as a Marlow or Bacon for Shakespeare fan and try and convince people that either Bacon or Marlow actually wrote the plays. Like the fellow Thursday spoke to before her run in with Hades in TEA.
Be more interesting than Mormons and things don't you think?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.108.---)
Date: February 17, 2008 02:10PM

Yes, it'd be hilarious until the weapons came out! lol.
I wonder where the Jeehobas Witlesses buy their clothing... Just in case I have a weekend free.

Re: Book group question
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 17, 2008 05:00PM

Colour coding?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 18, 2008 12:37PM

Compare the variations in the moral compass of the protagonist with those of a magnetic compass due to global warming and polar shift. Repeat until all cakes are eaten and then start ice cream.

Re: Book group question
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: February 22, 2008 09:55AM

<instigates crumb revolt>

Re: Book group question
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 22, 2008 10:39AM

<Crushes crumbs underfoot and laughs maniacally>

MWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

Re: Book group question
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 22, 2008 03:56PM

But seriously BK, Colour coding?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.108.---)
Date: February 24, 2008 12:14PM

You've never colour coded your socks?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: EgonSpengler (---.sns.nottingham.ac.uk)
Date: February 24, 2008 08:22PM

Or your fish?

Re: Book group question
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: February 25, 2008 06:36AM

Wait.... you mean that you do not just need to take socks out of the cupboard at random?

__________________________________
'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: Book group question
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: February 25, 2008 06:04PM

I've never been to Random, so, no, I haven't.

I was referring to the binary

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Book group question
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: February 26, 2008 07:41PM

but socks can match?

This is a big discovery. I think I had better lie down for a while....

__________________________________
'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: Book group question
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.105.---)
Date: March 02, 2008 11:37AM

Well, theoretically possible. But so is time travel, theoretically...

<Wizzes out in tardis to erase early editions of National Enquirer's "Aliens took Elvis in match-sock-shock" story before it hits SA streets...

Re: Book group question
Posted by: robert (61.88.131.---)
Date: March 02, 2008 10:29PM

Never having seen that edition of the National Enquirer I now finally know why.

Re: Book group question
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: March 03, 2008 09:28AM

I knew there was a purpose to having all of those seven-11's all over the place. And does this mean that the fire-fighting helicopter (Elvis) is really an under-cover sock-snatcher.

Re: Book group question
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: March 04, 2008 11:50PM

Saw comment of book title 'Silent in the Grave.

Thought of Puckoon

Didn't character of Chinese origin fall in open awaiting grave site in Puckoon and be anything other than silent?

Or was it some other item written by Shakespeare/Marlow/Jonson/Uncle Tom Cobby and all?

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