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richie
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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: The Bookworm's Alphabet Game. |
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This game follows the same basic scheme as the "Music Alphabet Game"
A book title, Author, or Literary term may be used...
If an obscure book, author or term is used please include a reference link.
I'll start with this one:
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BABUIN: A fanciful monster, silly creature, or a leering face drawn in the margins of a medieval manuscript. We get our modern word baboon from this French term for the little grotesque creatures that illuminators drew and doodled. Typically, the babuin is engaged in silly antics, such as playing or interacting with the letters on the page, chasing other babuins, or even engaging in copulatory and scatological activities.
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_B.html
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The Children of Hurin
Very good, even though it's also very depressing. Like the book of Job on steroids.
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The Elements of Style
by Strunk and White
They give the best writing advice I've ever seen, and it applies almost as much to computer programming as to prose.
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Otherland by Tad Williams
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