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    Quote Originally Posted by Whifflingpin View Post
    Taliesin- Could number 3 be "My Grandmother's Clock" by Geraldine McCaughrean
    Nope, we weren't thinking of this book.
    Although this one is quite a hard one, in our opinion.
    Requires knowing a certain fact about the book we are thinking about.

    Actually, to be more correct, as we found out, it should be great-grandmother, not grandmother.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    Tal, I do belive #9 is:

    Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelzany, a favorite!

    And you are correct!

    Nanners:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Whifflingpin View Post
    Taliesin: 2 might be "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
    And it is so!
    Good work!





    Night, yes, there is one Pratchett work here too, yes. Can you guess which one?
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    #3 Great-grandmother?

    The Princess and Curdie by George McDonald, perhaps? (Also a favorite)
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    #3 Great-grandmother?

    The Princess and Curdie by George McDonald, perhaps? (Also a favorite)
    No, alas.

    As a hint, there is another book to what we might refer to as "The Less Chronologically Gifted Great-Grandmother"
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    Taliesin 13 - Master & Margarita by Bulgakov?
    Voices mysterious far and near,
    Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
    Are calling and whispering in my ear,
    Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?

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    number 8?? I dont know why but it rings a bell then this one could be that one with the dwarf writes the shakespeare plays , the one where nanny and granny weatherfax go to the theatre and get annoyes.
    4. Those freaks really know their Shakespeare.

    Waint wasnt theere one about a granny who just faded in and out of history ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliesin View Post
    No, alas.

    As a hint, there is another book to what we might refer to as "The Less Chronologically Gifted Great-Grandmother"
    Yeah, there is to this set also. The Princess and the Goblin
    Some of us laugh
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    Quote Originally Posted by Whifflingpin View Post
    Taliesin 13 - Master & Margarita by Bulgakov?
    Correct!
    Margarita is a coctail made of tequila, Triple Sec and fresh lime juice.
    Expert is another word for master.
    And thus we have Master and Margarita.

    Nanners!

    Might we offer you a margarita?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    number 8?? I dont know why but it rings a bell then this one could be that one with the dwarf writes the shakespeare plays , the one where nanny and granny weatherfax go to the theatre and get annoyes.
    4. Those freaks really know their Shakespeare.

    Waint wasnt theere one about a granny who just faded in and out of history ??

    Connecting number 8 with Pratchett is a good idea, Night.

    The granny we are thinking about does not fade in and out of history, and we hope that it never will.
    No 3. is not a sci-fi book. It is more like fantasy, but it can't be called fantasy either.
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    Is 8 small gods??
    I think its a standalone though isnt it?
    Ill just have to go stare at the shelves till it jumps out at me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliesin View Post
    5. A midget went shopping and came back again.
    The Hobbit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Basil View Post
    5. A midget went shopping and came back again.
    The Hobbit?
    Correctamundo!
    Although We are not certain whether it is politically correct to call a hobbit a midget, but "There and Back Again" is another name for "The Hobbit".

    Some mutated hobbits:
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    Far more worrisome to me is your willingness to equate shopping with burgling! Surely the moral code of Estonians is made of sterner stuff than that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taliesin View Post

    8. By nothing, I will do it!
    Sorely tempted to say Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment...
    Por una cabeza
    Si ella me olvida
    Qué importa perderme
    Mil veces la vida
    Para qué vivir

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