How high?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Here's a silly book game.

How high can we count using the titles of books.

The rules are simple - think of books with numbers in the title - they must be real books, must be fiction - not found on Amazon, not eligible! - If the last post was 26, then you need to post a book with 27 in it's title (I assume you can all count!) The number can be spelt out or in numerals.

One more rule - books with titles like "Favourite Short Stories - Volume 97" are NOT allowed.

I'll start - cos it's my game.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

[Nightshade]

What so in order?
The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw ~ Sheila Hancock
( shelved it enough times recently :rolleyes: )

[Xamonas Chegwe]

they must be real books, must be fiction

Sorry. My fault if I didn't make that clear enough - I tried to keep the rules to a minimum but I should have made them more prominent.

Real books
Fiction only
Must be found on Amazon
No volume numbers, etc.
and in numeric order.

Please try again.

[Nightshade]

fiction :rolleyes:
no fair :p
Two Lives ~ Vikram Seth
and while Im at it
Three men in a boat : no top mentyion the dog by Jerome K. Jerome

[Miss Darcy]

The Three Musketeers to add to three...

[Darlin]

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell. I'm curious how long this can continue! :)

[Nightshade]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven ~ Mitch Albom

[Monica]

There's a book by Eco called "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods". But it's literary theory, not fiction, really. Can it count???

[Koa]

(I'll be back when we get to 1984...;) :lol: )

Really cool game though :nod:

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I'm curious how long this can continue! :)

Me too! One of the reasons I started it.

[Pendragon]

The 6 Messiahs--Mark Frost
The List of 7--Mark Frost http://www.smileyville.net/mellow/mf_sherlock.gif

[Xamonas Chegwe]

The Eight - Katherine Neville

[Pendragon]

Sherlock Holmes And The Rule Of Nine by Barrie Roberts

[Pendragon]

Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie

[Pendragon]

The Eleventh Comandment by Lester Del Rey

[Nightshade]

Twelve angry men Reginald Rose
(its a play does it count?)

[Nightshade]

The Thirteen Problems by agatha christie

[Miss Darcy]

[ I wonder how long we'll have to wait before we get to Catch-22 ]

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Twelve angry men Reginald Rose
(its a play does it count?)

I suppose so - I only specified fiction - and it's a fictional play. :nod:




I wonder how long we'll have to wait before we get to Catch-22

Personally - I've got a bet with myself as to whether we'll reach the 39 steps. :lol:

[Themis]

Fourteen mice and the moon - Kazuo Iwamura
Findling

- It can be found on Amazon but only in german. I hope it still counts.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Fourteen mice and the moon - Kazuo Iwamura
Findling

- It can be found on Amazon but only in german. I hope it still counts.

Jawohl! Das ist eine annehmbare Antwort.

[smilingtearz]

Love fifteen
it is a fiction

[Pendragon]

The Sixteen Hand Horse--Fred Gwynn http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/kngt.gif

[Xamonas Chegwe]

The Sixteen Hand Horse--Fred Gwynn http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/kngt.gif

Is that Fred Gwynne as in Hermann Munster?

[Monica]

The Sixteen Hand Horse--Fred Gwynn http://www.clicksmilies.com/s0105/spezial/Fool/kngt.gif


a great smilie :lol:

[Nightshade]

Seventeen---- Booth Tarkington

[Pendragon]

Is that Fred Gwynne as in Hermann Munster?Actually, yes. He wrote and illustrated childrens books. I remember reading them to my kids when they were small. He was good. The Sixteen Hand Horse is about a little girl who takes everything her parents say litterally. So when dad mentions a sixteen hand horse, she thinks it has sixteen hands. Gyynne was a good artist and used himself, sans makeup, as the dad. :lol:

[Pendragon]

Eighteen--Jan Burke

[papayahed]

Forever Nineteen - Grigorii Iakovlevich Baklanov (on amazon)

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Actually, yes. He wrote and illustrated childrens books. I remember reading them to my kids when they were small. He was good. The Sixteen Hand Horse is about a little girl who takes everything her parents say litterally. So when dad mentions a sixteen hand horse, she thinks it has sixteen hands. Gyynne was a good artist and used himself, sans makeup, as the dad. :lol:

Cool - sounds like something my neice might like - I'll look on Amazon when her b'day comes around - thanks.

[Nightshade]

come ooooooon I want to get to 23!!
and so
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

[Xamonas Chegwe]

21 Grams - Guillermo Arriaga

I'll leave the obvious book by Joseph Heller for the next person. ;)

But there's a very special, zircon-encrusted, genuine fools-gold no-prize for anyone that comes up with a different 22!

[RobinHood3000]

Now who can argue with that?

I don't suppose research is allowed? I can't stand the fact, but I can't think of very many books I've read with numbers in the title, let alone fiction books.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

Now who can argue with that?

I don't suppose research is allowed? I can't stand the fact, but I can't think of very many books I've read with numbers in the title, let alone fiction books.

Research is not against the rules but very definitely against the spirit of the game! You should be ashamed Robin - chastise yourself immediately!

In my opinion though, checking on Amazon to see if the book you thought of actually exists, or to get the author's name right, is not classed as research. But putting "Twenty two" in as a search bloody well is! ;)

[Nightshade]

well dont care
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

and NOW I can go
23and a half hours leave By Mary Roberts Rhinehart :p
:D

[RobinHood3000]

Research is not against the rules but very definitely against the spirit of the game! You should be ashamed Robin - chastise yourself immediately!

In my opinion though, checking on Amazon to see if the book you thought of actually exists, or to get the author's name right, is not classed as research. But putting "Twenty two" in as a search bloody well is! ;)
I suspected so, that's why I didn't post anything. :p

[Anon22]

yeah, I'm probably not going to post anything... lol... without research I'M DOOMED! DOOMED I SAY! lol... maybe not that doomed... when we get to 20, 000 I'll be able to do "20, 000 leagues under the sea" :D yay, it's not at all hopeless afterall!

[Xamonas Chegwe]

yeah, I'm probably not going to post anything... lol... without research I'M DOOMED! DOOMED I SAY! lol... maybe not that doomed... when we get to 20, 000 I'll be able to do "20, 000 leagues under the sea" :D yay, it's not at all hopeless afterall!

I must admit to a tad of surprise that nobody tried to sneak that one in for 20!

[Xamonas Chegwe]

well dont care
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

and NOW I can go
23and a half hours leave By Mary Roberts Rhinehart :p
:D

Hang on a minute 23 and a half!!!.

This is an integer only game Nightshade! Pray, confine yourself to whole numbers in future. Otherwise I would have introduced "The Life Of Pi" between 3 & 4. :cool:

[Nightshade]

No no this is a real rational number while Pi is...
well Pi is a conspiracy designed to torment those who arnt good at maths.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

No no this is a real rational number while Pi is...
well Pi is a conspiracy designed to torment those who arnt good at maths.

Technically, Pi is transcendental (which is better than rational - ask the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

But that doesn't alter the fact that 23 & a half is not 23 - even to a non-mathematician!

Fortunately, I know a proper 23, "Twenty Three Tales" a collection of short stories by Leo Tolstoy.


Any advance on 23?

[RobinHood3000]

Crud! He(she?)'s on to us!!

[Nightshade]

booooooooooooo I think Ill just gfo amazon 24 :brow:
or wait Im at the library now! Ill just get up and go do a shelf check.
:D

[Pendragon]

24 Hours--by Greg Iles. What can I say? I'm a collector! :cool:

[papayahed]

So should I not search amazon?

[Darlin]

American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices by various Asian-Amercan author's. I hope this counts. Can think of nothing else. I'm actually reading a story by Maxine Hong Kingston right now and have done some reseach on her as I like to do with new, to me, authors.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I think it should be allowed. No one has come up with anything better. Any advance on 25? Can we get to the 39 steps? Farenheit 451? 20,00 leagues under the sea? The billion year spree?

[Nightshade]

I can probably find one, in the library. Let see I know one fore thiorty, 2 actually.

[Pendragon]

Well, there's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century but I haven't checked Amazon to see if it's there, and if it is, it's probably out of print anyway. I can't remember the author, but they published some paperbacks when the show was big news, now they are collectors items, which someone like me would know about. I was hoping someone else would come up with something, so if everyone is agreed, let's go with the one that came up and try to get a 26 somewhere! :lol: :D :cool:

[Xamonas Chegwe]

One way or the other, we've got a 25 people! I'll happily go along with either Darlin's or Pendragon's suggestions.

Now let's push for that 26. Work those brains!

[Pendragon]

The things you lock away in your foggy brain. I was thinking 26, humm. Alphabet books.....? Then I remember this stupid little book with the fancy illustrations my kids loved when they were small and I hated! It's called The Z Was Zapped! A Play in 26 Acts by Chris Van Allsburg (had to look it up, all I could remember was that goofy title and those strange pictures!) It's on Amazon, 1998. book. And Buck Rogers in the 25th Century was there, in a fairly new book, to beat it all! If we find a 27 I think I'll faint! That alphabet book is the weirdest one I ever saw, if you get the chance, look at it, you'll see why I recalled the goofy thing!

[mike-eustace]

'twenty-seven bones' by jonathon nasaw. got it for christmas - a not too great mystery/detective/thriller.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

I've been waiting for this one.

28 Days Later - Alex Garland.

I saw the film at a special premier showing with director, Danny Boyle, and Writer, Alex Garland, answering questions afterwards. I wasn't over impressed with the film, it had too many plot-holes for my taste, but it was scary enough - and the soundtrack was interesting. Anyway, the screenplay is available in book form.

Any 29's out there?

[Pendragon]

Girls Night Out: 29 Stories of Female Vampires by Stefan Dziemianowicz. Saw it in a used bookstore, so it might not count. I collect anotholgies, have several by this author in collaboration with Martin Greenberg, the "100 Little Stories" series, so I looked at this one. I didn't get it, but it was a late 90's book. Your call, XC.

[Xamonas Chegwe]

To keep the game going, I say... :thumbs_up

It may not be exactly what we're looking for, but it's not specifically excluded in my somewhat arbitrary set of rules.

30 anyone?

[Nightshade]

Before we were 30 - Katie Agnew
( silly boo will never stay on the shelf and keeps flying off :D

[beer good]

"31 Songs", Nick Hornby