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Book game

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janeite · 06/09/2008 19:32

A colleague heard about this on the radio and it sounds great fun. You have to think of a book title that be changed into another potential book title by removing the final letter:

Eg - Of Mice And Me
Three Men In A Boa
The Sound And The Fur
etc

Can anybody think of more? Personally I would love to read Three Men In A Boa!

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beansmum · 06/09/2008 20:54

The tin me(n)
the sunlit stag(e)
Jeeves and the Impending doo(m)

can you tell I'm just going through my bookshelves now.

BecauseImWorthIt · 06/09/2008 20:52

Five Children and I

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janeite · 06/09/2008 20:52

And to lower the tone - Winnie The Poo

Sorry - have been wracking my brains and that's all I've managed to come up with

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wheresthehamster · 06/09/2008 20:49

The Daughter of Tim

MegBusset · 06/09/2008 20:49

The Maltese Falco

wheresthehamster · 06/09/2008 20:48

The Chamomile Law

beansmum · 06/09/2008 20:47

a portrait of the artist as a young ma

TotalChaos · 06/09/2008 20:46

The Da Vinci Cod

wheresthehamster · 06/09/2008 20:46

Charlie and the Chocolate Factor

MegBusset · 06/09/2008 20:45

Sorry will have a rethink!

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janeite · 06/09/2008 20:44

The Road To Wigan Pie is brilliant!

Meg - you take away the last letter, rather than the first - or that's what they did on the radio anyway. Pity, because Leak House sounds great, if rather smelly!

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wheresthehamster · 06/09/2008 20:44

Damn! I came running back from the bookcase to post Road to Wigan Pie thinking how clever I was

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janeite · 06/09/2008 20:42

"Emm" - love it! And I love the ones that create whole different connotations; "Julie, Julie wherefore art thou Julie" just doesn't sound the same does it?!

Animal Far
The Invisible Ma

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MegBusset · 06/09/2008 20:42

Animal Arm

MegBusset · 06/09/2008 20:41

Leak House

lyrasilver · 06/09/2008 20:40

The end of Mr.

BecauseImWorthIt · 06/09/2008 20:40

The Road to Wigan Pie

BecauseImWorthIt · 06/09/2008 20:38

Of course, there's Jane Austen's indecisive "Emm"

filthymindedvixen · 06/09/2008 20:36

Like one of those sunvisor strip things on a ford escort...

beansmum · 06/09/2008 20:36

It's very hard!

BecauseImWorthIt · 06/09/2008 20:36

Oh and there was me thinking I'd been brilliantly inventive!

beansmum · 06/09/2008 20:35

the portrait of a lad

filthymindedvixen · 06/09/2008 20:35

Romeo and Julie suddenly sounds rather more common though

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janeite · 06/09/2008 20:34

Far Form The Madding Crow was mentioned on the radio I think; it's fab!

Am still on TP at the mo - I rather like The Thief Of Tim.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 06/09/2008 20:32

Great Expectation
Hard Time
Far from the Madding Crow

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