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tobeornot221b · June 14, 2013 2:57 pm

Yes, of course!

Tantalus · June 14, 2013 3:00 pm

Tantalus wrote:
More Than Like Near The Home Bird Flock

Sorry, gang, to have picked such an (evidentally) obscure book. Maybe the fact that I enjoyed it should have told me something... : )

How about a hint: We can play this game with the author's last name..."A Type of Golf Club and the Type of Place Lots of Us Live In"

June 14, 2013 3:18 pm

Be wrote:
A novel from 1933?

Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood?

Tantalus · June 14, 2013 3:26 pm

Sorry, Be. I missed your question from earlier. 1906, to be exact, though it was re-done by the author into its current form in the 1920s, I believe.

Thus, no, not Greenwood. : (

June 14, 2013 3:38 pm

I try again:
Love among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse?
Probably wrong. Never heard of it. Just googled it.

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Tantalus · June 14, 2013 3:46 pm

Congratulations, Be! You've got it.

Don't worry; appartently, you aren't the only one who hasn't heard of it!

; /

sj4iy · June 14, 2013 4:00 pm

Name: man in charge and man in charge of a ship

What it is: Two guys who are friends sail on big ships on far side of the world in days long past and get a sloth drunk once.

Tantalus · June 14, 2013 4:03 pm

Sounds like maybe "Master and Commander".

sj4iy · June 14, 2013 4:04 pm

Tantalus wrote:
Sounds like maybe "Master and Commander".

That it is I love those books.

Tantalus · June 14, 2013 4:09 pm

I confess I haven't read them, but I did enjoy the Russell Crowe movie adaptation immensely.

Should I try this again?

How about: The Great Times of Fun and All Sorts of Weird Stuff by the World's Best Man Who Solves Crimes

Russell · June 14, 2013 5:08 pm

Oh... oh..! Pick me! Shoot... I think I know this! Probably got it wrong, as I'm only passingly familiar with it and think it's kind of obscure for most people, being so old, but the description sounds a lot like this thing called "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".......

. . . am I right?

besleybean · June 14, 2013 5:20 pm

I thought of that...

Davina · June 15, 2013 9:48 am

What You Call A Pretty Plant With Thorns

(Assuming the Sherlock Holmes thing is correct).

Schmiezi · June 15, 2013 10:01 am

The Name Of The Rose

Schmiezi · June 15, 2013 10:10 am

Presuming that was right, here is the next one:

A year, not in the past back then

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Davina · June 15, 2013 12:42 pm

Yes, it was correct. I love that book and the film too!

Schmiezi · June 15, 2013 3:32 pm

Schmiezi wrote:
A year, not in the past back then

Anyone?

Russell · June 16, 2013 3:23 am

Back to the Future? (seriously, I was soooo stuck, then that little amusing 'blip' of idea from description came and. . . wait. . .gah, me dense! not doing movie titles, Russell!) ;P ;P

...Oh, oh, wait! Taking it literally speaking to the year and nature of it..... 1984? *hopeful grin*

Heh... I need to get better at this. Interesting game for the brain.... keep thinking of more 'descriptive' ones myself, than word clues!

So who here remembers that really interesting one - "A tale of a bird who flew fast and high and did not want to be like the other birds"

sj4iy · June 16, 2013 3:56 am

The cat who can amaze and his rats who know many things

Schmiezi · June 16, 2013 9:30 am

Russell wrote:
...Oh, oh, wait! Taking it literally speaking to the year and nature of it..... 1984? *hopeful grin*

"

"1984" is right. I would also have accepted "2001"