Name That Book!

[Taliesin]

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?

Ah, but we were merely taking the viewpoint of the hobbits who were left behind in the hobbiton. You see thins hobbit leaving with these dwarves and coming back with some chests of gold and stuff.
How do you think Bilbo explained his adventures to them - of course he said he had been on a shopping binge and had therefore been away so long.

[Pendragon]

Hummm. #4

Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb The brother and sister were nutty enough to be called "freaks".

[Taliesin]

Well, no 4 isn't really about Shakespeare. Just the title is a Shakespearean quote.

[Whifflingpin]

6: Not likely to be Hugh Walpole's "The Fortress" but might be Kafka's "Castle".

Edit: Equally, it might be Susan Hill's "I'm the King of the Castle" or Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle"

but, just for another banana, I'll go for the Kafka.

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[Misscaroline]

Curious... could no. 1 be The Moon is Down by Steinbeck? Not sure if Commies applies, but it's worth a shot...

[Basil]

10. This aria turns even the coldest hearts aflame.

The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George Martin

[Taliesin]

6: Not likely to be Hugh Walpole's "The Fortress" but might be Kafka's "Castle".

Edit: Equally, it might be Susan Hill's "I'm the King of the Castle" or Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle"

but, just for another banana, I'll go for the Kafka.

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None of these, although the word "castle" is correct.
But there is other stuff in the title too.

[Taliesin]

Curious... could no. 1 be The Moon is Down by Steinbeck? Not sure if Commies applies, but it's worth a shot...

Nope, didn't think of that book.

[Taliesin]

The "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George Martin

Correct!

[Whifflingpin]

1 - Väinö Linna – “Here beneath the North Star” - Finnish trilogy, including an account of the civil war, from the "red" side. All right, clearly not, but if your clue were a crossword clue, the title would be something like "Lonely Astronomers of the Red Planet" and I can't think of any one like that.

6 again: How about Robert Silverberg - "Lord Valentine's Castle" or Philip K. Dick - "Man in High Castle." Both of these are notable works in the genres you say you favour.

[Taliesin]

1 - Väinö Linna – “Here beneath the North Star” - Finnish trilogy, including an account of the civil war, from the "red" side. All right, clearly not, but if your clue were a crossword clue, the title would be something like "Lonely Astronomers of the Red Planet" and I can't think of any one like that.

6 again: How about Robert Silverberg - "Lord Valentine's Castle" or Philip K. Dick - "Man in High Castle." Both of these are notable works in the genres you say you favour.

6 - correct. We admit, the clue was quite ambiguous and had many variants. But we were thinking about "Man in High Castle"

anyway.

1. Actually, yes, there are no actual Communist Revolutionaries in that book. But the important question is not "what colour?" but "when"

[Taliesin]

Posting the questions on this page:

1. Those Communist Revolutionaries might feel solitude when looking at the stars

2. Creatures that Vespucci might have worshipped -"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

3. The more chronologically gifted great-grandmother "Elder Edda"

4. Those freaks really know their Shakespeare. "Something wicked this way comes" by Bradbury


5. A midget went shopping and came back again. "Hobbit or There and Back Again" by Tolkien


6. Some guy who likes big medieval noble houses. "Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick

7. Well, to kill people, what else?

8. By nothing, I will do it!"Jingo"by Pratchett

9. Nine people to rule over some resin. "Nine Princes of Amber"by Zelazny

10. This aria turns even the coldest hearts aflame."Song of Ice and Fire" series by G. R. R. Martin

11. A good reason why to create being.

12. Something that this kid Roland could come to. Stephen Kings' "Dark Tower" series


13. A bit of tequila, a bit of lime juice - and an expert knowledge of how to mix it."Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov

[Pendragon]

#4 Conscience of the King by Alfred Duggan ?

[Taliesin]

Hints:

1. Why the Communist Revolutionaries? Why not just Communists?
3. Great-grandmother is how some people translate the title, although it is never translated so as the title of the book. Never.
How do you say "more chronologically gifted" in other words? And concering there is also a "less chronologically gifted great-granny"?
4. Those freaks are really freaks. Freakish freaks. Think about freaks. Circuses and whatnot. And the title is a Shakespearean quote.
7. "What is the - title of the book"-?" "Well, to kill people"
11. The title of the book refers to a good reason to create being - that is, existence. Universe, if you wish.
12. Oops. Made a mistake here. Sorry. Mixed up the names Ronald (Ronnie) and Roland.

[Pendragon]

#4 Sorry all I can think of is The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury