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    Quote Originally Posted by djy78usa View Post
    7: Walden?

    15: Archangel?

    20: Dune
    7: Indeed. Thoreau's House on Walden Pond.
    20: What else? Dune it is!

    15: Nah. Whole saga bears his name and rise to Lord in the navy of Britain.
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    15 Hornblower (any in the series)
    Now a quibble (for those of who take this very seriously) ha
    A dune is found in the desert, it is not dessert. Here I'm thinking cake, pie, tort, tart, and it's sand. Five yard penalty <--that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    15 Hornblower (any in the series)
    Now a quibble (for those of who take this very seriously) ha
    A dune is found in the desert, it is not dessert. Here I'm thinking cake, pie, tort, tart, and it's sand. Five yard penalty <--that way.
    15 Yes, indeed

    and OOPS!
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    13. The Bourne Ultimatum?

    I wanted to write 'Heidi' but then I thought certainly people in America wouldn't know that book!
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    O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
    wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
    sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
    und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.


    Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797 - 1843) (see avatar) Der Knabe im Moor/The Lad in the Moor

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    Quote Originally Posted by barbara0207 View Post
    13. The Bourne Ultimatum?

    I wanted to write 'Heidi' but then I thought certainly people in America wouldn't know that book!
    13: Certainly. And why not "Heidi"? I knew and have read it, and it was in fact on the list! And I seldom leave VA!
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    Is 14; (long shot here!) Lord of the Flies? dont they eat one of the boys in that? been a Looooong time since i've even remotely read that!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    14. They ate a shipmate (by Poe)
    19. The avenue was fogged in ( fog is basically a _________ too low in the sky and an avenue is a ________
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    5: I am Legend

    14: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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    Quote Originally Posted by djy78usa View Post
    5: I am Legend

    14: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
    5: Yes, indeed.

    14: Quite true!
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    Only two left...

    Going once...
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    Going twice...

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    8 The White Company by Doyle
    The other one's nagging me to death. Seems like it should be Cloud Street, but that doesn't ring a bell.
    No damn cat, no damn cradle - Newt Honniker

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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    8 The White Company by Doyle
    The other one's nagging me to death. Seems like it should be Cloud Street, but that doesn't ring a bell.
    Yes, that's what I thought. Or Cloudy Road or something like that. But Amazon doesn't show any results ...
    O schaurig ists übers Moor zu gehn,
    wenn es wimmelt vom Heiderauche,
    sich wie Phantome die Dünste drehn
    und die Ranke häkelt am Strauche.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    8 The White Company by Doyle
    The other one's nagging me to death. Seems like it should be Cloud Street, but that doesn't ring a bell.
    8: is correct!

    And have more faith in yourself:

    19: is Cloudstreet : A Novel by Tim Winton

    Congrads!
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    NEW LIST! GOOD LUCK!

    1. He could converse with animals
    2. Subtitled “The Silver Skates”
    3. Wooden boy lives
    4. Subtitled “The Modern Prometheus”
    5. It might go past the RJ Reynolds plant…
    6. Not being guilty, they left to see the world
    7. Liquid Children
    8. A hook and pan clash
    9. Hidden growing spot
    10. Entropy has a fold
    11. This novel gives HIM not the world but a tiny parcel of it
    12. Watch out windmills…
    13. Creeping towards the dawn…
    14. Climb forty less one
    15. Week in the life of Holden Caulfield
    16. Hey, Jude!
    17. “You can’t pray a lie.”
    18. Opposite of greeting the sun
    19. “You wouldn’t leave Old Pew, mates! Not Old Pew!”
    20. They ran into Smog? Almost...
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