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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterfly View Post
    Sorry,, I went too fast!
    Fathers and Sons (Turgenev, no?) for 8.
    And Herzog!! for 18.
    And Hunger (Hansen), for 4.
    Yes!
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    7. The Trial by Kafka?
    No damn cat, no damn cradle - Newt Honniker

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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    7. The Trial by Kafka?
    Indeed!
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    5. The Age of Innocence
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    5. The Age of Innocence
    Right!
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    I will post hints as soon as I fix my home computer.
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    OK, um, hints:

    1: It could be tin or aluminum but deceased
    2: So who lives up there?
    3: Lot's Wife became what mineral?
    6: If we don't know him he is a __________.
    13: Slumber is known as ___________,
    14: If it splatters on your lapels...
    15: You stomp what to make wine?
    16: Google the phrase...
    17: First this happens in the morning to everyone living
    20: It would be very cold there...

    Hope these help!
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    3. Lot’s Wife Might have Lived Here: Salt Mine?
    6. We Don’t Know Him: The Stranger?
    13. Or Slumber, or Sloth: The Big Sleep?
    14. Could Have Been Blood: The Human Stain?
    15. Stop Them In Anger, Make Raging Wine: The Grapes of Wrath!!!
    16. Ultimate Incarnation of the Superfluous Man: Oblomov (thanks, Google )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterfly View Post
    3. Lot’s Wife Might have Lived Here: Salt Mine?
    6. We Don’t Know Him: The Stranger?
    13. Or Slumber, or Sloth: The Big Sleep?
    14. Could Have Been Blood: The Human Stain?
    15. Stop Them In Anger, Make Raging Wine: The Grapes of Wrath!!!
    16. Ultimate Incarnation of the Superfluous Man: Oblomov (thanks, Google )
    Let's see here:

    3: Right mineral, wrong book, and one doesn't live in a mine!
    6: Yep!
    13: Right track wrong train, but you might look for a synonym for refer to
    14: Um, think honor
    15: Of course!
    16: Right!
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    1. The Container Kicked the Bucket: hum, the Tin Drum (note that I am not even convincing myself )
    2. Orbs Raised to Heaven - Their Eyes were watching God?
    3. Lot’s Wife Might have Lived Here - Salt Town? (that one could live in, no? )
    13. Or Slumber, or Sloth - is there a play on the first sound (sl)?
    17. Rising In the Morning After a Good Night’s Sleep - The Awakening!!

    Are these extraordinarily difficult or am I just slow-witted?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterfly View Post
    1. The Container Kicked the Bucket: hum, the Tin Drum (note that I am not even convincing myself )
    2. Orbs Raised to Heaven - Their Eyes were watching God?
    3. Lot’s Wife Might have Lived Here - Salt Town? (that one could live in, no? )
    13. Or Slumber, or Sloth - is there a play on the first sound (sl)?
    17. Rising In the Morning After a Good Night’s Sleep - The Awakening!!

    Are these extraordinarily difficult or am I just slow-witted?
    Hum... Let's see

    1: No. There is a heavy play on words here... Deceased container reversed may get it for you...
    2: Absolutely correct! Good catch!
    3: Close enough. It was Cities of Salt by Abd al-Rahman Munif
    13: Try Nous Appelé Le Sommeil as a clue...
    17: Yes!
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    List Brought Forward

    1. The Container Kicked the Bucket Candide
    2. Orbs Raised to Heaven "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
    3. Lot’s Wife Might have Lived Here "Cities of Salt"
    4. Desire for Food "Hunger"
    5. Childhood, for Example "The Age of Innocence"
    6. We Don’t Know Him "The Stranger"
    7. Litigation "The Trial"
    8. Sires and Male Offspring"Fathers and Sons"
    9. Hester Wore It, Not So Well "The Scarlet Letter"
    10. Gilded Writing Pad "The Golden Notebook"
    11. USA Calamity "An American Tragedy"
    12. Friday Did All the Work "Robinson Crusoe"
    13. Or Slumber, or Sloth
    14. Could Have Been Blood
    15. Stop Them In Anger, Make Raging Wine "The Grapes of Wrath"
    16. Ultimate Incarnation of the Superfluous Man "Oblomov"
    17. Rising In the Morning After a Good Night’s Sleep "The Awakening"
    18. A Tragically Confused Jewish Intellectual Sending Out Letters "Herzog"
    19. Set in the Fictitious South American Republic of "Costaguana” "Nostromo"
    20. Could Be Alaska, I Suppose
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    Pen, Way too groanable...
    1. Candide
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    Pen, Way too groanable...
    1. Candide
    Ain't it though! Right answer!
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    Smile Final Three and New List

    13: Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
    14: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
    20: Snow Country by Kawabam Yasunari


    Note on this new list: Every Book is a name. Every clue is an actual book blurb. Good luck!

    1. the adventures of the inept knight and his humble squire. 1. Don Quixote
    2. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom 2. Ulysses
    3. this book was harpooned at the time of its 1851 publication by critics 3. Moby Dick
    4. beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. 4. Madame Bovary
    5. the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly 5. Emma
    6. three families also represent three very different societal and physical locations in Russia 6. Anna Karenina
    7. "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him;”
    7. Huckleberry Finn
    8. I'm not in the habit of using words like bawdy or rollicking, but if you look them up in the dictionary, you should see a picture of this book. 8. Fanny Hill
    9. one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, 9: Tristam Shanty
    10. It portrays the downfall (already announced in the subtitle, Decline of a family) of a wealthy mercantile family of Lübeck over four generations. 10. Buddenbrooks
    11. She begins honing the skill of passing herself off as a fortuned widow to attract a man who will marry her and provide her with security. 11. Moll Flanders
    12. about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. 12. Tom Sawyer
    13. the narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming obsessed with a 12-year-old girl 13. Lolita
    14. Her Family attempt to force her to marry a rich but highly uncultured and unrefined man (Roger Solmes) against her will
    15. it has yellow, watery eyes, translucent skin, black lips, long black hair and is around 8 feet (2.4 m) in height.
    16. Carfax Abbey was his hiding place.
    17. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
    18. She received her education at Lowood School.
    19. His father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother marries Mr Edward Murdstone:
    20. "Please, sir, I want some more."
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