Book Meme

[f4f3]

Via chickenfeet2003 , who has a much more impressive line in favourite books than I

1. List three characters from ten favourite books.
2. Add last names if you wish.
3. Try to guess what the books are!
4. I have not used any Jane Austen novels, as they are too easily guessed (although I suspect the novels books I picked will be easily guessed as well. Well, maybe not one of them).
5. I reserve the right to be sneaky and use secondary characters.

1. Skip Devoe, Billy Keegan, Tim Pat Morrisey as frankie_ecap  figured out, "When The Sacred Ginmill Closes" by Lawrence Block
2. Private Pulsifer, Pippen Galadriel Moonchild, Wensleydale "Good Omens", By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, meredyth_13 
3. Inspector Partha, Mask, Shyam Lal
4, William Harris, George, Mrs. Poppets, "Three Men in a Boat", Jerome K Jerome, coughingbear 
5. A GAUL, A ROMAN, gillibrand, "Down With Skool", Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, clanwilliam 
6. Christian Pram, Apollo, Turbid
7. Susie Willink, The Yawner, "Uncle" Dick Wootton
8. Tak, Yama, Kubera
9. Brandy Bottle Bates, Harry The Horse, The Seldom Seen Kid, all characters in Damon Runyon's Broadway stories - not sure if they all make it into "Guys and Dolls", but clanwilliam  is certainly close enough
10. Eddie Mars, Rusty Regan, Silver-Wig and frankie_ecap  knows The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler when she sees it...

Comments

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

I shall sit this one out, on account of the pile of books sitting just across from me. I suspect reading the titles of the spines is cheating... ;)

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

2 - Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett

and beyond that I feel like a total failure. :D

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Correct and not failure like at all.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

2. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
5. Down with Skool, Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans.
9. Guys and Dolls (a short story), Damon Runyan.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Correct, correct, and correct.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Ten is big sleep

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Correct.

[coughingbear]

Damn, was all excited cos I knew 2 and 5, but beaten to it.

[coughingbear]

Oh, oh, no.4 is Three Men in a Boat.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

The early bird is, um, early. And correct.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

One of my great failings is that I never remember the names of characters in most books, only their relationships. I just think of them as "the landlord" or "the sister-in-law" or "the ingenue in trouble." Case in point, I have read The Big Sleep at least five times but I can't name anybody except Philip Marlowe. I recognized Number 9 because the names are in a song, which makes them more memorable.

I think if I tried to do this meme I would not get much past "Rhett, Scarlett, and Mammy" along with "Jo, Beth, and Amy."

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Some names just stick with me forever - no idea why.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Oh! I am a fool. (1) is Scudder.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is. Care to have a stab at the novel?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Is it When the Sacred Ginmill Closes?

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Also I need to 'fess up that I had to google the title, because they're all in Somerset. But I did remember the book per se.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Either way, you were still right. And did you buy your own Scudders? I'm impressed.