Suggest a book game. [Archive]

L.A.Matthews

10-17-2007, 06:30 PM

Right, here's a new game that I just thought of. I begin by naming a genre, then I suggest a good book within it.

Seeming this is the first post I'll start off with a genre, then suggest another for the next poster to suggest.

Genre: Horror

Suggestion: In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

Genre: Biography

(Next person suggests a book and names a genre for next poster.)

Mr. Mojo Risin'

10-17-2007, 07:07 PM

"Light my fire" by Ray Manzarek.

Genre: Adventure

lithium

10-17-2007, 07:11 PM

Biggles Makes Ends Meet.

Genre: postmodern fiction

phoenix_indigo

10-17-2007, 10:38 PM

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Genre: Science Fiction

L.A.Matthews

10-18-2007, 01:16 AM

Brave New World - Huxley

Lost Generation literature

lithium

10-18-2007, 01:22 AM

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Children's fiction

verseau_miracle

10-18-2007, 04:06 AM

Peter Pan -J.M Barrie Woot, i got kids fiction:D

Autobiography

lithium

10-18-2007, 11:47 AM

The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven

Genre: Science non-fiction

phoenix_indigo

10-18-2007, 12:51 PM

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Genre: Philosophy

lithium

10-18-2007, 12:53 PM

'The Republic' - Plato

Genre: Travel

L.A.Matthews

10-18-2007, 02:09 PM

On the Road - Kerouac (*sigh*:confused:.)

Short Story

Mr. Mojo Risin'

10-18-2007, 05:12 PM

"Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King

Genre: Poem (collection of poems or just one, nevermind)

Quoth the Raven

10-18-2007, 06:47 PM

"Singing Yet" - Stan Rice (it's a collection)

Drug book

lithium

10-18-2007, 06:55 PM

Dr Miriam Stoppard's Complete Family Health Guide

Genre: History

razy

10-18-2007, 08:36 PM

A Brief History Of Time, Stephen Hawking :D

Genre: Romantic Fiction

Roffa

10-19-2007, 02:28 PM

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Genre: Detective fiction.

phoenix_indigo

10-19-2007, 05:04 PM

"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams

Genre: Foreign Language

IlUvMuSIc

10-19-2007, 05:52 PM

Jules Verne - Le Rayon Vert

Horror

lithium

10-19-2007, 06:24 PM

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Genre: philosophical novel

L.A.Matthews

10-19-2007, 06:56 PM

The Bible - 'God'

Japanese

lithium

10-19-2007, 07:05 PM

Hahaha, God didn't actually write the Bible:tongue:

L.A.Matthews

10-19-2007, 07:11 PM

Okay, fine! The Bible - Jesus Christ :tongue:

Roffa

10-20-2007, 10:54 PM

Woman of the Dunes - Koko Abe

Nigerian

phoenix_indigo

10-21-2007, 03:19 AM

Okay, fine! The Bible - Jesus Christ :tongue:hate to break it to you, but Jesus didn't write it either :tongue:

lithium

10-21-2007, 12:00 PM

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Comedy

Mr. Mojo Risin'

10-21-2007, 06:38 PM

George Carlin "When will Jesus bring the pork chops?"

Whodunit

Roffa

10-21-2007, 08:37 PM

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Campus novel

lithium

10-22-2007, 03:23 PM

Nice Work - David Lodge

Natural History

Roffa

11-04-2007, 07:15 PM

looks like lithium has found Hip UK's blind spot ...

Quoth the Raven

11-05-2007, 12:29 AM

That book some bloke wrote.. you know, 'im off the telly.
David Attenborough, that's it.

Literary criticism ;)

dollydagger

11-09-2007, 12:20 AM

Poetics - Aristotle

genre: satire

Quoth the Raven

11-09-2007, 02:15 AM

Bored of the Rings - can't remember the author. Not sure if it isn't a little lowbrow for satire, it might just be parody ;)

Philosophy, Greek

lithium

11-09-2007, 11:30 AM

Aristotle - Politics

Historiographic metafiction

Roffa

11-09-2007, 12:50 PM

Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) by Gunter Grass. (does this count?)

Hagiography.

dollydagger

11-09-2007, 06:15 PM

The Lives of The Saints - Aelfric of Eynsham

Magic Realism

Roffa

11-12-2007, 03:45 PM

The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende.

19th century (or earlier) travel memoirs.

dollydagger

11-12-2007, 06:58 PM

Travels by Marco Polo

Farce

Roffa

11-25-2007, 11:57 AM

Charley's Aunt.

Novel set on a Greek island.

dollydagger

11-25-2007, 05:59 PM

is set in crete, but close enough:

Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

psychological thriller

Roffa

11-26-2007, 10:23 AM

I love Kazantzakis, though I can only really read him when I'm in Crete - in our grey northern climate it all seems a bit lurid and overblown.

Psych thriller - any of the Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith.

Genre: alternative history.

razy

11-27-2007, 12:24 AM

er, David Irving?

Genre: Generation X

phoenix_indigo

12-08-2007, 07:56 PM

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland

Genre: Fairy Tales

*side note*
this thread reminds me loads of when I applied to work at Border's Books & Music years ago. I had to take this test that was quite similar to this, like suggest a book for a genre or put certain books in a genre. i never felt like such an idiot, until now. :eek:
:lol:

dollydagger

12-09-2007, 02:19 AM

The Juniper Tree - The Brothers Grimm

sick and twisted stories to lull a child to sleep by - my mom did!!

social commentary

Roffa

12-09-2007, 11:55 AM

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Narrative verse.

dollydagger

12-09-2007, 05:17 PM

A love song for J. Alfred Prufrock - t.s. eliot

burlesque