The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
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Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
Guest Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:44 pm
..."The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" ?
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Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
eddie Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:57 pm
blue moon wrote:
..."The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" ?
Ha ha.
Good guess.Mr King's face is the focus of interest here.
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Guest Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:00 pm
The Man with the Twisted Lip?
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Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
eddie Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:15 am
blue moon wrote:
The Man with the Twisted Lip?
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eddie Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:43 pm
^
King Rat by James Clavell?
The Rats by James Herbert?
King Rat by James Clavell?
The Rats by James Herbert?
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Guest Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:18 pm
...on the right track eddie, but no cigar.
...it's a bit obscure, and by an Australian author...the clues are almost literal...
Seems like you've been gone for a week
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eddie Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:20 pm
blue moon wrote:Seems like you've been gone for a week
Work (urggh!) has been consuming most of my energy.
It's very quiet on ATU at present I see- with Pinz ostensibly in the frozen north- but no doubt things will settle down in time.
Your Autralian author must be off my literary radar.
Here's something to be going on with:
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Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
Guest Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:23 am
...the previous answer was 'And even the rats clapped' by David Argue.
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eddie Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:00 pm
Constance wrote:King Lear?
Too easy, wasn't it?
Your turn, I think.
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eddie Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:03 pm
blue moon wrote:David Argue
Nonsense, that can't be a real name.
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Guest Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:12 am
eddie wrote:blue moon wrote:David Argue
Nonsense, that can't be a real name.
...
... 
...of course you're correct eddie...the author's name is actually David J Argue.
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Re: The Peg-leg and the Parrot: ATU's literary game
Guest Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:56 pm
blue moon wrote:
...the previous answer was 'And even the rats clapped' by David Argue.
...I have to confess it's the most puerile book I've ever read...
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Guest Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:01 pm
...here's one while we wait...
...it's a novel...first published 1992. (two words...the second word is a homonym)
...it's a novel...first published 1992. (two words...the second word is a homonym)
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Guest Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:26 pm
...and another novel. This is one of a popular series of books...
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eddie Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:19 am
blue moon wrote:...here's one while we wait...
...it's a novel...first published 1992. (two words...the second word is a homonym)
Crow Road by Iain Banks.
Great book.
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Guest Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:27 am
blue moon wrote:...and another novel. This is one of a popular series of books...
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Guest Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:44 am
...it's one of a five-part trilogy
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eddie Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:08 pm
Ah! You refer, of course, to "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", one volume of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" quintet.
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Guest Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:14 pm
\\eddie wrote:Ah! You refer, of course, to "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish".
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Guest Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:18 pm
eddie wrote:
...is it a novel?
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