# Guess the book **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004 "2000-11-06T21:03:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/1 "2000-11-06T21:03:21Z")
This is beautiful: ‘A few light taps upon th pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the loneley churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’ Guess the book + author. its for a bet ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/2 "2000-11-06T21:18:00Z")
James Joyce, _The Dead_? ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/3 "2000-11-06T22:35:18Z")
Well done. However, you dont count as youre from Canada ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/4 "2000-11-06T22:45:43Z")
I’m from the US and I recognized it before I saw Pipeliner’s post. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/5 "2000-11-06T22:50:15Z")
okay I believe you no really however 44 other people didnt ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/6 "2000-11-07T00:22:05Z")
Oh can we do other excerpts? Can i say one nad have other people guess it? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/7 "2000-11-07T00:30:18Z")
Just a niggle. Author James Joyce, book _Dubliners_. _The Dead_ is the last story in this collection. ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/8 "2000-11-07T13:14:44Z")
thats right jc. Go ahead zoggie. we’d prefer if you didnt go on about your nads though ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/9 "2000-11-07T19:40:46Z")
Hehe…alright. I’ll stick to the literature then. Here’s mine: _No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream…Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm…_ Had to edit some out or it would have become too obvious. Care to venture a guess? ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/10 "2000-11-07T20:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nukeman \* > \*\*upon all the living and the dead.’ > > Guess the book + author. its for a bet \*\* That last line gives it away - it’s the pull quote on the back of the box for the video. ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/11 "2000-11-07T20:26:34Z")
I cheated and did a google search, but to save the fun for the other’s I won’t post the answer. I never would have guessed the right answer. As an added hint, though, the movie version of THAT book does NOT star Angelica Huston and HASN’T been made into a musical. Narrows it down a bit, no? 🙂 [aside to Zoggie] My favorite line from Psycho I believe is from the same scene as yours, when Marion says, “I think it’s good for a man to have a hobby.” That’s always made me giggle for some reason.[/aside] ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/12 "2000-11-07T21:36:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jcgmoi \* > \*\*Just a niggle. Author James Joyce, book _Dubliners_. _The Dead_ is the last story in this collection. \*\* I stand corrected. I have to confess, I read _The Dead_ as part of a book of short stories. It’s the only Joyce I’ve ever read. For those who are interested in this sort of thing, the filmed version of _The Dead_ was the first movie my now-wife and I saw together (before we were even at the hands-holding stage.) Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/13 "2000-11-07T21:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zoggie:_ > \*\*No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed by some to dream…Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm… \*\* Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House. ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/14 "2000-11-07T22:19:43Z")
lets turn this into a kind of game. once you guess the book, you give a quote from another… ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/15 "2000-11-07T23:09:48Z")
First someone has to tell us if Juniper’s guess was right. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2000, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/16 "2000-11-07T23:30:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DavisMcDavis \* > \*\*[aside to Zoggie] My favorite line from Psycho I believe is from the same scene as yours, when Marion says, “I think it’s good for a man to have a hobby.” That’s always made me giggle for some reason.[/aside] \*\* That’s definitely one of my fave scenes…I have a lot. 😛 And yup, Juniper’s guess was the right one… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/17 "2000-11-09T16:51:52Z")
Juniper? Somebody? Anybody? Its your turn… ---
**Author:** ![Nukeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Nukeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nukeman)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/18 "2000-11-10T19:21:50Z")
Juniper seems to have dissapeared… meanwhile heres a small one. Might be easy, might be really hard: ‘Heloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!’ ---
**Author:** ![ThreeLeggedBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThreeLeggedBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreeLeggedBob)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/19 "2000-11-10T19:43:10Z")
Winnie-the-Pooh seeing if Rabbit is at home? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/20 "2000-11-10T19:47:09Z")
So, um…did the book specifically have one “l” and 36 “o”'s in it? Gosh, no wonder this is so hard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004.md?page=2)