# A Novel Feud by Barkis is Willin' \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 19, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949 "2011-04-19T13:03:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/61 "2011-04-20T12:41:30Z")
1. Jane Eyre 2. Les Miserables 3. Harper Lee 4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 5. Dracula 6. Animal Farm 7. James Bond 8. JK Rowling 9. Hercule Poirot 10. War of the Worlds ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/62 "2011-04-20T13:11:10Z")
And **critter42** is #50. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/63 "2011-04-20T13:28:25Z")
1. Jane Eyre 2. War and Peace 3. Harper Lee 4. Finding Neverland 5. Dracula 6. Animal Farm 7. Harry Potter 8. Jane Austen 9. Anna Karenina 10. War of the Worlds ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/64 "2011-04-20T13:29:59Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > And **critter42** is #50. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/65 "2011-04-20T14:18:15Z")
There are always some answers that I’m pretty confident of that surprise me; this one was Do Androids Dream… though I thought a lot of people would answer Blade Runner. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/66 "2011-04-21T14:19:34Z")
Perhaps I should have answered _War and Peace_ for #2, but I thought people might refer to it by its original title, _War, What is it Good For_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/67 "2011-04-21T14:32:38Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Perhaps I should have answered _War and Peace_ for #2, but I thought people might refer to it by its original title, _War, What is it Good For_. What is that noise? ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/68 "2011-04-23T14:20:17Z")
bump for results. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/69 "2011-04-23T16:59:18Z")
It’s a holiday weekend for some, **Rebo** may be busy. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/70 "2011-04-23T19:00:51Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Perhaps I should have answered _War and Peace_ for #2, but I thought people might refer to it by its original title, _War, What is it Good For_. Good God, y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/71 "2011-04-23T19:17:42Z")
Yes, I’ve been very busy! My brother is visiting for my Dad’s 87th birthday, plus we’re going out of town tomorrow. I’m running around like a chicken with its head cut off! I’ll try to score it before we leave tomorrow afternoon. Sorry! Off to the grocery store! _:whoosh::_ ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/72 "2011-04-23T20:48:28Z")
Who was that masked woman? ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/73 "2011-04-23T21:14:47Z")
She has some badly misplaced priorities. You would think some kind of holiday was coming up. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/74 "2011-04-23T22:18:05Z")
1. Fiction novel whose title is the main character’s name **1. Jane Eyre 11** 2. David Copperfield 10 3. Huckleberry Finn 7 4. Oliver Twist 4 5. Don Quixote 2 6. Dracula 2 7. Robinson Crusoe 2 8. Sybil 2 9. Babbitt 1 10. Carrie 1 11. Dolores Claiborne 1 12. Emma 1 13. Frankenstein 1 14. Lolita 1 15. Lord Jim 1 16. Moby Dick 1 17. Moll Flanders 1 18. Tom Sawyer 1 19. Famous novel originally written in a language other than English **2. War and Peace 24** 20. Don Quixote 7 21. Les Miserables 7 22. Crime and Punishment 4 23. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2 24. The Three Musketeers 2 25. Anna Karenina 1 26. Love in the Time of Cholera 1 27. The Brothers Karamozov 1 28. The Stranger 1 29. One hit wonder author of a fiction novel **3. Harper Lee 34** 30. Margaret Mitchell 5 31. J. D. Salinger 2 32. Mary Shelley 2 33. Ralph Ellison 2 34. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 1 35. Dan Brown 1 36. J. K. Rowling 1 37. John W Kennedy 1 38. pass 1 39. To Kill a Mockingbird 1 40. A movie about a real life author **4. Capote 31** 41. Adaptation 2 42. Becoming Jane 2 43. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 2 44. Finding Neverland 2 45. Shakespeare in Love 2 46. The Hours 2 47. Frankenstein Unbound 1 48. Hammett 1 49. In Cold Blood 1 50. Out of Africa 1 51. Stand By Me 1 52. The Diary of Anne Frank 1 53. Truman Capote 1 54. A famous horror novel **5. Dracula 17** 55. Frankenstein 15 56. Carrie 6 57. The Stand 5 58. The Shining 4 59. It 2 60. In Cold Blood 1 61. A novel whose main characters are animals **6. Animal Farm 28** 62. Watership Down 20 63. Charlotte’s Web 1 64. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1 65. A multi-book series **7. Harry Potter 26** 66. Lord of the Rings 22 67. James Bond 1 68. Song of Ice and Fire 1 69. A famous female author **8. J.K. Rowling 22** 70. Jane Austen 11 71. Agatha Christie 5 72. Danielle Steele 2 73. Virginia Woolf 2 74. Alice Walker 1 75. Anne Rice 1 76. Ayn Rand 1 77. Dorothy Parker 1 78. Harper Lee 1 79. Joyce Carol Oates 1 80. Margaret Mitchell 1 81. A novel or series whose main character dies **9. Anna Karenina 12** 82. The Great Gatsby 7 83. Harry Potter 4 84. Moby Dick 3 85. Love Story 2 86. The Lovely Bones 2 87. The Metamorphosis 2 88. The Notebook 2 89. 1984 1 90. A Game of Thrones 1 91. A Tale of Two Cities 1 92. All Quiet on the Western Front 1 93. Cheaper By the Dozen 1 94. Don Quixote 1 95. Frankenstein 1 96. Hercule Poirot 1 97. Les Miserables 1 98. Misery 1 99. Sherlock Holmes stories 1 100. Stranger in a Strange Land 1 101. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1 102. The Shining 1 103. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 1 104. The World According to Garp 1 105. A sci-fi novel made into a movie **10. Dune 20** 106. 2001: A Space Odyssey 12 107. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Blade Runner 5 108. War of the Worlds 4 109. Fahrenheit 451 3 110. I, Robot 2 111. Starship Troopers 2 112. Battlefield Earth 1 113. Contact 1 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/75 "2011-04-23T22:27:03Z")
And the winner is… Me! ::flings confetti:: I got 8/10 top answers. Woo-hoo! Perfect score was 450.00. Thanks for playing, everyone! Thanks, **Barkis is Willin’** - I liked this one. 😉 \*\*1. Dolores Reborn 444.00 \*\* 2. Mahaloth 422.00 3. NDP 412.00 4. wheresgeorge04 410.00 5. twickster 406.00 6. pravnik 402.00 7. Invisible Chimp 390.00 7. swampbear 390.00 9. astorian 382.00 10. Fretful Porpentine 374.00 11. Sigmagirl 372.00 12. Little Nemo 366.00 13. Hilarity N. Suze 364.00 14. jsgoddess 354.00 15. Freudian Slit 344.00 15. AppallingGael 344.00 17. Labtrash 338.00 18. Manduck 320.00 19. Infovore 314.00 20. Really Not All That Bright 308.00 21. AuntiePam 306.00 21. Barkis is Willin’ 306.00 23. kenobi 65 302.00 24. tdn 300.00 25. glowacks 298.00 26. Gray Ghost 296.00 27. Tom Scud 286.00 28. gonzomax 284.00 28. Mr Shine 284.00 30. Maus Magill 276.00 30. 42fish 276.00 30. Ulf the Unwashed 276.00 30. Sternvogel 276.00 30. RachelChristine 276.00 35. needscoffee 268.00 36. UncaStuart 258.00 36. notfrommensa 258.00 36. bibliophage 258.00 39. JohnT 252.00 39. Kitten Mitten 252.00 41. Baker 250.00 41. critter42 250.00 43. Omniscient 242.00 44. Le Ministre de l’au-delà 234.00 45. septimus 210.00 46. Chronos 208.00 46. rjk 208.00 48. kaylasdad99 194.00 49. wevets 178.00 50. Asimovian 164.00 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/76 "2011-04-23T22:28:12Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She has some badly misplaced priorities. You would think some kind of holiday was coming up. Phhllbbt! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/77 "2011-04-23T22:37:23Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > She has some badly misplaced priorities. You would think some kind of holiday was coming up. Or even worse that her dad’s 87th birthday and her brother’s visit are more important than scoring the feud. I mean, like scoring the feud is not the most important thing ever! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/78 "2011-04-23T22:38:33Z")
Looks like one of the least conchy feuds we ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/79 "2011-04-23T23:00:17Z")
i think this was an excellent example of how to write a Feud, personally. Not because I won, but because there were very few conchs. It was a very thoughtful game. I wish everybody that submits Feuds would think them out this well. Thanks, **Barkis**! (Although #9 was spoiler-y.) ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949/80 "2011-04-23T23:27:52Z")
Just for curiosity, what are the elements that go into a well written feud? Obviously it has to be a topic popular enough that 50 people want to participate, but what else? Questions with many possible answers so that you have to second guess which answer most Dopers will go for? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-novel-feud-by-barkis-is-willin-game-over/578949.md?page=5)