http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ A book club with a difference en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:16:47 +0000 http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-227 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:36:15 +0000 madigan 227@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>maybe it was a bit tricky - it;s the RIddle of the sands, by erskine childers (senior!) and i'll cede to Carizza to come up with the next ones! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-221 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:53:47 +0000 madigan 221@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>spot on carizza.</p> <p>clue: it's an oldie, obviously! and there is an irish connection </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-218 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:32:53 +0000 Carizza 218@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>No. 1 has to be The Manchurian Candidates and I think No. 2 is Girl With A Dragon Tattoo? </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-212 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:50:20 +0000 pounder 212@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Not a notion on any of those, madigan. Stumped, I'm afraid. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-179 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:05:24 +0000 madigan 179@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>sorry for the delay!</p> <p>Ok i'll do three then to keep ye going!</p> <p>1.<br /> &quot;No electric chair for a medal of honour man,&quot; Marco said, and he began to pick his way painfully down the iron ladder listening intently for a memory of Raymond, for the faintest rustle of his ever having lived, but there was none. </p> <p>2.<br /> Dragan Armansky was born in Croatia fifty six years ago. His father was an Armenian from Belorussia. His mother was a Bosnian muslim of Greek extraction.</p> <p>3.<br /> I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism. It was in some such spirit, with an added touch of self-conciousness, that, at seven o'clock in the evening of 23rd September in a recent year, I was making my evening toilet in my chambers in Pall Mall. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-178 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:03:58 +0000 pounder 178@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>madigan.....<br /> still waiting for the next question </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-130 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:22:25 +0000 Carizza 130@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Sorry for leaving you hanging, Madigan; you're completely correct!</p> <p>Your turn... </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-113 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:41:14 +0000 madigan 113@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I'm fairly sure its Murakami, coin locker babies, it's the first line in the book, so its fairly memorable :)</p> <p>as a new member i'm happy to wait for a confirmation tho! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-103 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:37:54 +0000 Carizza 103@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Correct on No. 2, Pounder.</p> <p>Shall we say that whoever gets No. 3 gets to choose next? </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-101 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:11:47 +0000 pounder 101@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I couldn't remember for sure if her name was Clare. Just checked my copy of the book. No.2 is Time-traveller's Wife. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-94 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:25:50 +0000 Carizza 94@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>It's a tough one alright, Pounder. The book is by an author well-known in a not very main-stream genre. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-93 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:30:57 +0000 pounder 93@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Well done, Carizza. Not only did you get my 3, but I'm totally stumped on your No.3! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-92 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:06:23 +0000 Carizza 92@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>You're correct on no.1, Emma.1! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-91 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:03:28 +0000 Emma.1 91@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>No.1: 1984 by George Orwell! Great game Pounder! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-88 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:17:15 +0000 Carizza 88@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Ok!</p> <p>Right, will start easy and get a little harder.</p> <p>No. 1:<br /> It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen</p> <p>No. 2:<br /> CLARE: It's hard being left behind</p> <p>No. 3:<br /> The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish.</p> <p>(OK- apologies in advance for no.3- it seems a bit risque but I bought the book because of that line; it certainly piqued my interest) </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-83 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:41:46 +0000 Claire 83@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Carizza, I think it's your turn to post clues for some other books!Promise I won't Google this time! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-82 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:59:17 +0000 Carizza 82@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Got it!! Picked this up in Eason's on Sunday and was flicking through the first few pages when I clicked that it was No. 1 from this guessing-game. Think anyone standing next to me thought I was nuts when I slammed the book closed and loudly hissed &quot;that's it!&quot;</p> <p>It's Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-68 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:06:36 +0000 pounder 68@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Well played, Carizza. </p> <p>No 1. anyone? </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-66 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:13:00 +0000 Carizza 66@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Is no. 2 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime? </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-65 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:55:21 +0000 Eileen 65@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I want to read the first book- sounds interesting. Someone has to guess it so I can find out what it is! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-35 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:48:54 +0000 pounder 35@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Catch is spot-on with book No.3 :Life of Pi. Googling is definitely cheating! I was going to post clues for the other 2 but it would give the game away. Keep guessing! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-32 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:57:35 +0000 Claire 32@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>I googled them because I am such a cheat - but i won't let the cat out of the bag! I read No.1 a couple of years ago and enjoyed but didn't recognise it which just goes to show how much I retain of books I have read! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-31 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:21:21 +0000 Eileen 31@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Great topic, I can't guess any of them though... I thought no 3 might be 'My year of Meats'. </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-27 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:28:07 +0000 Catch 27@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>No. 3 is 'Life of pi'. Don't know No.2. Now really want to read No.1. What is it? Good Topic, by the way! </p> http://dinetoread.ie/forums/topic/spot-the-book#post-26 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:42:03 +0000 pounder 26@http://dinetoread.ie/forums/ <p>Can you spot the books the following quotations come from?<br /> No.1:<br /> 'Then everyone was talking at once, about how Tommy never even tried to be creative, about how he hadn't even put anything in for the Spring Exchange. I suppose the truth was, by that stage, each of us was secretly wishing a guardian would come from the house and take him away. '</p> <p>No.2:<br /> 'This is another reason why I don't like proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn't happen and they make me feel shaky and scared.</p> <p>And this is why everything I have written here is true. '</p> <p>No.3:</p> <p>'I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matches, but I love Canada. It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. Anyway, I have nothing to go home to in Pondicherry.' </p>