Phoenix - The 51st State

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:51 am

My fault for instigating I know but this is getting a bit onerous keeping up.

Anyway Weylando has definitely left his shooting boots at home, UP curls one narrowly wide with War & Peace at 20 but FSM taps in the Philip pulman one although contreversially the authorities have awarded it to Weyland. He then makes sure by leaping like a salmon to power home CS Lewis' TLTW&TW.

By my reckoning that makes it 2 each for FSM, Weyland and HE. UP has some work to do to claw back his one goal deficit.

3 to find people.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:55 am

"His Dark Materials" is the name of the triogy the three books I named make up.

I remember thinking at the time, how come LOTR, Narnia, etc get only one place per trilogy, and JKR gets to enter the HP books seperately? It's like the favoritism that the Oxbridge Colleges get in University Challenge.

Let's try... Animal Farm by George Orwell. And Brave New World by Auldous Huxley. And 2001 by Arthur C Clarke.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:00 am

at the risk of getting a straight red:

tess of the d'urbervilles
the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
the great gatsby
treasure island
swiss family robinson

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:00 am

Oh you called it Northern Lights trilogy- I have never read any of them- booked for dissent.

Animal farm and Brave New World both well down the list.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:03 am

unknownpseudonym wrote:at the risk of getting a straight red:

tess of the d'urbervilles
the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde
the great gatsby
treasure island
swiss family robinson

As Tess, GG and Treasure islland were all in the Top 50 you have spared yourself a second bookable offence

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:06 am

Sorry about that, I couldn't remember the name - that bloody film has confused the issue!

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:09 am

[quote="Weyland"]Sorry about that, I couldn't remember the name - that bloody film has confused the issue! ]

Weyland edges ahead with Jane Eyre and then narrowly misses out on doubling his lead with Wuthering heights which was 12th.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:12 am

Some of you literati might enjoy this...

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:14 am

Right, *cracks knuckles*, classic kids books then:

Peter Pan by JM Barrie.
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland bu Lewis Carroll.
The BFG, Charlie and the Choclate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, all by Roald Dahl.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:17 am

Winnie The Pooh brings home the bacon for Weyland as he slots home a fourth.

To put you all out of your misery, the final one was Harper lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

All yours W.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:21 am

Cardinal Richelieu wrote:Some of you literati might enjoy this...

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Good work YE I suspect that going through a few of these will facilitate the SWPing no end particularly for those of us who have educational background biased towards sciences/ school of hard knocks

Flying Spaghetti Monster · Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:23 am

Just been having a look at a few, my favourite so far is War and Peace

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:26 am

Thank God, that English degree wasn't entirely a waste after all.

(I'm actually one of those who approves of HP, simply beause it;s got more people reading again

)

To depress you all further, Scholastic recently announced the latest Harry Potter Sales figures. How many HP books in total have been sold worldwide to date?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:26 am

Northern Monkey wrote:
Cardinal Richelieu wrote:Some of you literati might enjoy this...

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml
Good work YE I suspect that going through a few of these will facilitate the SWPing no end particularly for those of us who have educational background biased towards sciences/ school of hard knocks

ops: Ah have just actually bothered to open one. Mebbee not.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:28 am

Quite like the collected works of Jane Austen:

Female Lead

I secretly love Male Lead. He must never know.

Male Lead

I secretly love Female Lead. She must never know.

(They find out.)

THE END

as for the quiz... 650 million?