Vanna Goes out of Business Part 10

Continuing form Vanna goes out of business part 9
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Avoid I

// forbiddenletter I //

Summer by Edith Wharton
U

3438. In America A Novel by Susan Sontag (read 27 Apr 2001) (National Book Award fiction prize for 2000)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Rumpelstiltskin*
by Ed McBain
I

*McBain's is fiction, with a title taken
from fairy tale; the same title by Paul Zalinsky is a Caldecott Award-winning retelling of the tale.

Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A

Zotz! by Walter Karig
O

4993. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich (read 21 Jan 2013)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

avoiding O

537. His Family by Ernest Poole (read 27 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1918)

If this had not won the first Pulitzer prize for fiction, how many living today would ever have heard of it?

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Remember me to God
by Myron Kaufman
E

Lincoln - Gore Vidal

Avoid: I

4051. A Thread of Grace A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (read 1 Aug 2005)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
O

The Man-Irving Wallace

Avoid: O

1135. Looking Backward 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy (read 8 Oct 1971)

There is no e in the title as it appears. The fact there are e's in the spelled out "1887" I ignore, since the title is as it is set forth here.

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

The Client- John Grisham

(e)
Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton

Vowel to avoid : O

Natural Child by
Calder Willingham
A

Z by Vassilia Vassilikos

Z

Sorry, but a single consonant title (20) isn't playable on. A single vowel title would be; (it would become the forbidden vowel of the next post), but I hope nobody uses one.

Zulu - Caryl Ferey

Avoid: U

The vowel to avoid in #18 is A, not O. The first vowel is a and there is a second A, so A is the voewel to avoid. #22 does avoid A, so I am playing on #22.

502. Marjorie Morningstar A Novel by Herman Wouk (read 10 Aug 1956)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Nineteen nineteen by John Dos Passos
E

{Dwarf's Blood by Edith Olivier

O

Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
A

The Life of Henry the Fifth-William Shakespeare

Avoid: E

389. My Antonia by Willa Cather (read Aug. 5, 1951)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

E

Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton

A

Six Criminal Women by Elizabeth Jenkins

I

A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley

A

Under the Yoke by Ivan Minchov Vazov

//E//

Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel- Edwardson, Ake

All of a kind Family Downtown by Sydney Taylor

O

that's got an o

"(36) 's got an o" (37)

Yes, sorry. I played that one
by "Another Silly Game..." rules.

playing on 35

Forbidden letter: O

Guy Mannering
by Walter Scott
U

Space-James A Michener

Avoid: A

Henry Esmond
by William M. Thackeray
E

Sugarland-Phillip Finch

avoid: A

Thirty Three Teeth- Colin Cotterill

Starbox, is #31 fiction? It doesn't appear to be but I have not read it and I presume you have. The description sounds like it would be an interesting book to read. Could I borrow it from you?

Avoiding E:

542. Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge (read 27 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1930)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Eye of the World -Robert Jordan

Avoid: O

44: No it's not fiction, it's a look at six notorious (but not well known) females from British history. I'm about halfway through; unfortunately it's a library book but I see it's available secondhand from about £5.99 on Amazon.
(NB Are we meant to be using fiction only in this game?)

Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor

Avoid A

"Are we meant to be using fiction only. . .

Yes.
Take the word of an old
(unintentional) non-fiction user who has been "caught"
posting a non-fiction title in this game.

Let us be flexible on the game rules. No hard fast rule but for the enjoyment of free time to jolt our unused brain power.

From Msg - 47: Palladian-Elizabeth Taylor Avoid A

TEST- RUN ( To gauge response) By avoiding a vowel, and another alphabet in a next posting.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues -Tom Robbins

Avoid: a vowel - ( E ) ; another alphabet - (N)

// E // ; // N //

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

Avoid: A; C

avoiding: A,C

Lost Horizon-James Hilton

Avoid: O ; S

Bethel Merriday
by Sinclair Lewis
E; L

(I'm assuming the "to-be- forbidden"
consonant is of one's own choice? Doesn't have to be the first, or the most frequent?

Borkmann's Point - Hakan Nesser

O, T

The vowel to be avoided in #45 is E, not O, but #47 avoided both E and O.

4930. Nemesis, by Agatha Christie (read 5 Jun 2012)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: A
Consonant to be avoided in the fictional title: S

What does being flexible in regard to rules mean? That the rule can be ignored? That makes no sense to me: if a rule need not be followed the rule means nothing.

Schmerguls, the game from msg 50. Keep cool and relax.This is only a game.

The vowel to be avoided can be "e" or "i " from your post above.

E and S

Cold Moon- Jeffery Deaver

O and C

I see o is the vowel to avoid but what consonant?

". . .what consonant?" (58)

A.: C
(Avoid O and C) --57

Shank's Mare by Ikku Jippensha

forbidden vowel (from 60): A
forbidden consonant: none (?)

The God-seeker
by Sinclair Lewis

Avoid E; S

Poor Cow by Nell Dunn

Avoid O and P

Hawai'i by James Michener

Avoid A and H

Twenty Blue Devils - Aaron Elkins

Avoid E and T

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Animal Farm-George Orwell

Avoid: A ; M

Southwesterly Wind: Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo

Avoid: E ; W

Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov

Avoid: O ; T

Being Dead - Jim Crace

Avoid E; B

Avoid: e or i or a , another alphabet ?

should be: avoid E.
E:2, A: 1; i:1

skoobdo, #69 ibndicates that the consonant to be avoided is B

Playing on #69:

787. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (read 20 Nov 1964)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: V

Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray
E; P

Albion's Story- Kate Grenville

Avoid O ; L

The Three Sisters by May Sinclair

Avoid E and S

Ivanov by Anton Chekhov
I; N

The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck

Avoid: A ; W

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins
E; F

Birdsong bySebastian Faulks

Avoid: a vowel, O ; N

What Didymus Did
by Upton Sinclair
I; D

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

A ; W

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Avoid I and L

117. The Scarab Murder Case, by S. S. Van Dine (read 1943)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: e
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: S

Kittyhawk Down: Garry Disher

There's a name you don't see on here very often. S. S. Van Dine-My father used to read those mysteries.

I ; K

You have to advise which alphabets to avoid. A vowel & a consonant.

I don't think #84 is fuction--it is an account of something which really happened and I think is supposed to be true, not? If it is fiction it is indicated in the posting, skoobdo, the letters to be avoided are I and K,

The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim

A and R

86: I think you're thinking of Blackhawk Down. Kittyhawk Down is a police procedural and an Inspector Challis Mystery

Voss
by Patrick White
O; S

Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

E and S

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
U; L

The White Tiger-Aravind Adiga

Avoid: I, R

Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
A; M

Twister-Michael Crichton

Avoid: I , R

What the Dead Know - Lippman, Laura

Avoid A ; T

The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan

Avoid: O; B

Thirty-Three Teeth - Colin Cotterill

Avoid E ; T

Rashomon-Akira Kurosawa

Avoid: O ; N

Maigret Hesitates - Georges Simenon

Avoid A ; T

Dune-Frank Herbert

Avoid: U ; D

Written in Bone - Simon Beckett

Avoid: E; N

What Katy did by Susan Coolidge

Avoid A and T

Denise, you are right in #88. My bad. Sorry.

#90 does not avoid S, Starbox, but #91 does. #93 does not avoid R but #95 does. Playing on #103:

4786. Lords of Misrule, byJaimy Gordon (read 23 Dec 2010) (National Book Award fiction prize for 2010)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same title: L

Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
A; N

Full House by M.J. Farrell

U and L

Sorry #90, having a momentary aberration!

The White Rajah
by Nicholas Monsarrat
E; W

Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West

O and S

It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
E; C

Roots-Alex Haley

Avoid: O ; T

Note: The next poster must not used any of the alphabets shown in the previous posting - book title,it would make the game much more difficult and challenging. For examples,

Roots - to avoid r, o,t,s exclusive of the article attached to the title- a,an, the

Why not, have another game at advanced stage?

Avoiding O, T

Les Racines du Ciel
by Romain Gary
E; R

U.S.A. (Trilogy) - John Dos Passos Note: Do not consider the word, trilogy as a part of the title.

Avoid: U, S

Oleanna by David Mamet
A; N

rolandperkins, Good Day. How are you?

Beloved-Toni Morrison

Avoid: O, D

Good Day, skoobdo!

Aren't we still under the rule, for vowels, that the most used becomes the next "Forbidden"?
THen, the "Avoid" of 114 should be E (E: 2x; O:once -- (114)

It is only a suggestion for future games.

Present rules still apply.

Avoiding E and d
(See 114, 115, 116)

Argonautica
by Apollonius of Rhodes
A; G

Ulysses-James Joyce

Avoid: U, S

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
O; R

I,Claudius-Robert Graves

Avoid: I ; C

Out Stealing Horses: Per Pertterson

Avoid: O ; S

Rabbit Run-John Updike

Avoid: A,R

Edge of Sleep - David Wiltse

Avoid: E ; D

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

O and S

Matilda-Roald Dahl

Avoid: A ; L

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Which alphabets to avoid?

E and T

Birdsong-Sebastian Faulks

Avoid: O ; D

The Art Thief: Noah Charney

Avoid: E ; T

John Brown's Body by A.L. Barker

O and N

The Twits-Roald Dahl

I and S

The vowel to avoid in #129, starbox, is I, not O, since the I comes before the o. So, since #130 and #131 and #132 do not avoid both I and D, I am playing on #129 and avoiding both I and D:

825. The Fall A Novel, by Albert Camus translated by Justin O'Brien (read 19 Oct 1965)

Vowel tp avoid in a fictional title: E
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: L

Brighton Rock
by Graham Greene
O; R

Small Island by Andrea Levy

A and L

Perfume-The Story of a Murderer-Patrick Suskind

Avoid - U , M

!36: 5 U s and 5 E s, but the 1st E precedes the U s.

So, avoiding E; M:

Natural Child by Calder Willingham
A

Another alphabet: ?

Pick any two letters, a vowel, and a consonant at random would be simpler.No fast rule to remember.

#135 required avoidance of A and L, but neither #136 nor #137 does so, so I am playing on #135, avoiding, as required thereby, A and L:

4981. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich (read 4 Dec 2012) (National Book Award fiction prize in 2012)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: H

#35 required avoidance of
A and L. . ." (139)

True, but I was playing on 136. I first had to correct 136's mis-statement of which VOWEL, among HIS vowels should be avoided. Was I supposed to check out if HIS play on 135 was correct?

Iranians* by Aeschylus
(fictional though based on
events of the author's own century -- the only such near-contemporary
basing in all of Greek drama.)

*The more usual English title "The Persians" is out because of the E.

Yes, Roland, it seems to me that you should not have played on #136 since #136 did not correctly play on #135. You should have plaeyed on #135, the last correct entry.

Playing on #141, and avoiding I and R:

2068. Volcano: A Novel, by Shusaku Endo translated from the Japanese by Richard A. Schuchert (read 25 Mar 1987)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: L

If I have used this in this thread I will change it.

Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac read in 2001

E and G

139>140>142

Thanks, Schmerguls

Forbidden letter E; G

Cousin Pons
by Honore' de Balzac

The Hobbit-J R R Tolkien

Avoid: O, B

Giant by Edna Ferber
I; G

Jesus of Nazareth-Gunter Bornkamm

Avoid: E ; N

#147 does not purport to be fiction, so I am playing on #146 and avoiding I and G in a fictional title:

3295. The Talbot Odyssey a novel by Nelson DeMille (read 27 Feb 2000)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: T

(I suspect it will be hard to find a title without an e and without an t--all that have "The" in the title are out--but I am sure someone can find a title that he/she has read that will meet the requirement.

A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo

A and W

85. The Short-Stop by Zane Grey (read in 1940 or 1941)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: T

Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell

I and L

Catch-22-Joseph Heller

Aviod: A ; H

Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger

I; N

91. The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes (read in late 1941)

Vowel to avoid in fictional title: E
Consonant to avoid in the same fictiional title: T

oh I read The Lodger back in 70s as a teenager and really enjoyed it!

Appius and Virginia by G.E. Trevelyan

I and P

Playing on #155 , since Denise's #156 does not avoid I:

3387. The Chosen A Novel by Chaim Potok (read 7 Jan 2001)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: H

Paul and Virginia byJacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

A and N

Holes-Louis Sachar

Avoid: O; L

End as a Man by Calder Willingham
A; D

Mort-Terry Pratchett

Avoid: O ; T

498. A Fable, by William Faulkner (read 3 June 1956) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1955) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1955)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional tile: F

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

O and N

The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
E; T

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz

U and D

Family Favourites
by Alfred Duggan
A; F

Roland, #166 does not avoid U (one of the vowels easiest to avoid) so I am playing on #165, which has not been played on correctly:

2158. The Story of an African Farm A Novel by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner) (read 19 Aug 1988)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: N

The People with the dogs by Christina Stead

E and P

The Stand-Stephen King

Avoid: A ; D

Theophilus North
by Thornton Wilder
O; T

The vowel to avoid in #169 is E, and #170 does not avoid it, so I am playing on #169 and avoiding E and D:

3507. Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo (read 3 Dec 2001)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: N

Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier

Avoid E and R

Kinflicks by Lisa Alther (read 2012)

I and K

Double Act-Jacqueline Wilson

Avoid: O ; L

5007. Time and Again, by Jack Finney (read 24 Mar 2013)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional tile: N

The Secret History-Donna Tartt

Avoid: E; T

Congo Song by Stuart Cloete
O; C

Little Men-Louisa May Alcott

Avod: I ; N

The Octopus
by Frank Norris

O; P

The Singer-Calvin Miller

Avoid: I ; N

Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
(In verse, but Iʻm pretty sure it is fictional

A; C

She-H Rider Haggard

Avoid: E, H

Liafail by Talbot Mundy

I; L

Don Quixote-Miguel De Cervantes

Avoid: O ; N

In #178 the vowel to be avoided was E, not I. Roland in #183 does avoid E and N. #184 by Skoobdo does not avoid I so I am playing on #183 and avoiding I and L:

539. One of Ours, by Willa Cather (read 11 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1923)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: N

Summer by Edith Wharton

U; M

The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien

E and S

The Art of War-Sun Tzu

Avoid: A ; R

#188 does nor avoid E, skoobdo, (and is not fiction, is it?) so I am playing on #187:

894.Rob Roy, by Sir Walter Scott (read 3 Mar 1967)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: R

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka read 2012

E and H

Barabbas
by Per Lagerkvist

A; B

The Thirty-Nine Steps-John Buchan

Avoid: I, S

Skoobdo, there are three e's in your title and two i's so the vowel to avoid is E, not I. Avoiding E and S (even though there are four T's and only two S's--since as I understand the poster gets to pick the consonant to be avoided, right?)

1362. Romola, by George Eliot (read 25 Oct 1975)

Vowql to avoid in a fictional title: O

Consonant to avoid in a fictional title: R

Adam Bede
by George Eliot

A; B

One way of love
by Gamel Woolsey

O and N

Gryll Grange
by Thomas Love Peacock
A; G

Neither #196 nor #197 avoids A, so I am playing on #195 and avoiding A and B:

1471. Trinity, by Leon Uris (read 21 Dec 1977)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: T

Lourdes by Emile Zola

O and R

The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
E; C

Aaron's Rod by D H Lawrence

A and R

Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
O; W

The Great Gatsby-F Scott Fitzgerald

Avoid: A ; R

The Last Tycoon
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

O; T

Every Eye by Isobel English

E and Y

Wickford Point
by John P. Marquand
I; F

The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit

E and D

The Haj-Leon Uris

Avoid: A ; H

Trinity by Leon Uris
I; N

In #203, skoobdo, the vowel to be avoided is e, not a, since there arre two e's in the tile and they come before the a's

playing on #203 and avoiding E and R:

542. Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge (read 27 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1930)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional tile: G

If I have used this in this thread no. 10 I will change it

The Stoic
by Theodore Dreiser
E; S

3751. Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott (read 4 June 2003)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O
Consonant to avoid in the same fictional title: L

The Talisman
by Walter Scott
A; T

Miss Buncle Married by D.E. Stevenson

I and S

The Dwarf / Dvaergen
by Per Lagerkvist
E; D

My Son, My Son by Howard Spring

O and S

The Thirteenth Tale-Diane Setterfield

Avoid T and E