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

[gymble.livejournal.com]

You posted something!

The only one I'm really sure of is:
8. The Westing Game

Other guesses:
1. Charlotte's Web
3. Watership Down
4. Redwall (but initial guess was Wind in the Willows)
5. The Little Prince
9. Murder on the Orient Express
10. The Phantom Tollbooth

Something is by Roald Dahl, but I don't know what.

[dr_whom]

I did!

You're right about 1, 3, 4, 8, 9.

The Phantom Tollbooth didn't have any SIPs listed; and The Little Prince only had two, and one of them was "little prince". I didn't like The Wind in the Willows.

[gymble.livejournal.com]

Now resorting to Google I find that I haven't read 5, 7, or 10. 2 didn't make much of an impression on me. And I read 6, but those phrases still don't mean anything to me. Maybe 6 didn't make much of an impression either.

You should post more often. It's good for the soul. Or at least comment to let me know that you're alive.

[dr_whom]

6 had a lot of SIPs, and I deliberately picked some of the less obvious ones. You should definitely read at least 5 and 7, though.

I would comment on your posts more often, but I don't watch Veronica Mars....

[gymble.livejournal.com]

Well, you know what the solution to that is, don't you?

1. Obtain S1 DVDs
2. Watch. Obsess.
3. Obtain S2 episodes or DVDs (release date is Aug. 22)
4. Watch. Obsess.
5. Watch S3 live this fall.

I already hooked kilravock and lowellboyslash (via kilravock). Even my parents liked it which I think shocked them as much as it did me.

[dr_whom]

I'll think about it—see how much free time I have this summer. I haven't watched any TV shows on DVD since priscellie got me to watch Firefly—which was safe, because it has a finite number of episodes. I don't know if I can accept the commitment of watching a good show that's still in production.