Touchstone game

As suggested in the RSI group, here is a game to find the connection between books and their suggested first touchstone.

It works like this: someone posts a book and its automatic touchstone. Everybody else thinks of what the connection between those books can be, and posts a plausible/funny explanation. I suggest the first person to post an explanation is "it" and can post a new touchstone puzzle.

I suggest correcting the touchstone of the original work (so we can all see which book it was meant to be) by clicking "others" in the touchstone list next to your message.


So, kicking off: has anybody any idea why Gulp links to Duma Key?

I'm not a Steven King fan, and any sort of horror is likely to upset my digestive system.

Sure. Amy Gulp took King's author photo for the book.

It's really easy to find this stuff out.

I think the idea is to find funny/ironic 'faux' connections, like Pulp leading to Pride and Prejudice.

@JerryMmm is right, it's supposed to be a laugh. But of course, if you happen to know the real connection, you can tell us too.

No one else is posting yet, so I will add the most recent of mine. A World Invisible by Joanna O'Neill comes up as Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Having suffered through reading "Crime and Punishment;" I would not mind if it was invisible.

>6 MrsLee: Maybe the Touchstone God is making a point that those prisoners exist in an invisible world ... it can be both deep and capricious depending upon its whim.

The Bat by Jo Nesbo links to The Hobbit. I'm pretty sure that Smaug was a dragon but I may be wrong ...