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viciouscycle216

meme from ben

May 19, 2006 22:43

find an appropriate number (he had ten) of your favorite novels on amazon. pick a handful of ‘statistically improbable phrases’ for each (only works for ‘search inside’ books). list phrases associated with each book with book names omitted. invite friends to guess which phrases came from which book. (google is not allowed, as in most cases it makes ( Read more... )

Comments 7

q10 May 20 2006, 03:34:29 UTC

3 is The Butter Battle Book

4 is The Golden Compass

6 is Interface

8 is 1984

7 looks like Gatsby, but i'm basing that entirely on ‘old sport’ which is common.

10 is full of the sorts of vocabulary i'm used to seeing when people quote Grapes of Wrath, but i haven't read that one so i can't express much certainty.

there must be some Austen in there someplace, but i can't tell what.

sinsofthedove May 20 2006, 04:05:55 UTC

The Austen is clearly #9. :-) Barring that, #1.

q10 May 20 2006, 04:13:23 UTC

i was for a while wondering if i remembered right that 9 was Catch 22. i'm not terribly confident about that, but i now need to say that i think Catch 22 as told by Jane Austen would be completely marvelous.

viciouscycle216 May 20 2006, 04:19:06 UTC

9 is catch-22. 1 is the austen; pride and prejudice. that was the only SIP it had.

prisminawindow May 20 2006, 03:48:10 UTC

I'm seconding q10's 7 is Gatsby

viciouscycle216 May 20 2006, 03:52:58 UTC

all correct. the austen is there.

viciouscycle216 May 20 2006, 04:23:22 UTC

upon discussion, 2 is presented in a totally unfair context; its a collection of short stories. i know thats not much help, but i'm not sure how to really make it fair.