A meme? Yes, a meme!

[dr_whom]

It's me! And here's a meme taken from q10. The idea is, you pick ten of your favorite novels, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each novel, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. All clear? Just so:

1. barn cellar, grey spider, old sheep

2. boy with the purple socks, tomato sandwich

3. chewing pellets, beech hanger, other rabbits

4. gatehouse study, nutbrown ale, big badger

5. little hairy man, black silk top hat, fallen star

6. madhouse attendants, little stone figure, extraordinary revival

7. pea shooters, peace march, pickle barrel

8. purple waves, wax dummy

9. scarlet kimono, quarter past one, communicating door

10. tangents paper, rarefying engine, cabinet noir


Most of those look pretty easy, actually. Ah, and as for the previous meme, well.... I haven't officially abandoned it yet, but.

Comments

[jcberk.livejournal.com]

You posting? Is that allowed? Next thing you know I'll succumb.

I can identify 1, 3, and 5 off the top of my head (and apparently my guess for 4 is right) but will claim 5, _Stardust_ by Neil Gaiman, since I just read _Anansi Boys_ (finally) and enjoyed it hugely.

[jcberk.livejournal.com]

And I can't believe I failed to immediately realize what 7 was. I love that book. I was exceedingly excited to find it in a bookstore a couple years ago and now wish it wasn't hidden away in a box. Don't think anyone else I know has ever mentioned hearing of it, so thanks for the memories. :)

[dr_whom]

I'm not really posting! It's just a meme. Really I would post more, except it's been a while since I found a meme that interested me enough.

The solution for books hidden away in boxes is to unpack!

Stardust is one of the ones I wouldn't have been able to guess here, so nice job.

[jcberk.livejournal.com]

The reason not to unpack is moving twice in the next year! The books live in my parents' attic until I decide to live in a city for more than a year at a time. {crosses fingers that'll be after next year}

"Fallen star" to me means either _Stardust_ or _Howl's Moving Castle_, and the other two SIPs definitely didn't come from the latter. Are there other fallen star books? (Er, well, maybe some that reference _Paradise Lost_?)