I really hope that wasn’t from memory. Heck I couldn’t even remember Ford.
Lig Lury, Jr.
St John Lord Merridew, from Anthony Schaeffer’s Sleuth.
Stay Alive
From Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, I assume they were written by Bokonon, whose given name escapes me.
Half a point for Cal. Merridew was the detective within the fictional mysteries in Sleuth, but I don’t remember if he was the credited author.
Lionel Johnson, mispronounced in their dialect
Spoiled in case someone else wants to chime in!
So if Cal gets half a point, can I have half a point for post #18?
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. No, I didn’t Google.
Stay Alive - James Bond. He is writing it near the beginning of Goldfinger.
The Rooster Crowed at Midnight.
Regards,
Shodan
Yes: “Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism” was from 1984, by Emmanuel Goldstein.
“A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy’s Triumphant Story” was a real book that alleged to be the true life story of Anthony Godby Johnson, but which turned out to be a hoax.
Biffy the Elephant Shrew = 3
Jonathan Chance, OtakuLoki, Shodan = 2
Oredigger77 = 1.5
Dead Cat, pravnik, cmkeller, surok, MadtheSwine, Signagirl, Robot Arm = 1
Cal Meacham, fachverwirrt, Scarlett67 = 0.5
I can’t solve any of the remaining ones, but I still want to add my own:
Yojimbo’s Japanese-English Dictionary
Isn’t that the one that they were all reading on an episode of MASH?
Two to add:
Blood On The Badge
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
Blood on the Badge was the book Ron Glass’s character on Barney Miller was always working on. (can’t remember the character’s name, though.)
You guys are good.
Regards,
Shodan
All right, it looks like these are too tough. So:
The Lonely Buddha, by Jose Chung, played by Charles Nelson Reilly on X-Files and on Millenium.
Samuel’s Castle, by Allison MacKenzie in Return to Peyton Place. The character was played by Diane Varsi in the first film, Carol Lynley in the sequel, and by Mia Farrow in the first serial.
Anslem was by Jake Sisko, son of Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine. He wrote the book under the influence of yet another brain-sucking alien on the episode “The Muse.”
Babes in Babylon was by Robin Masters of Magnum P.I.
Deep Six was by Timothy McGee of the TV show NCIS. The book was written under the pseudonym Thorn E. Gemcity.
Love Hurts was by Catherine Tramell, villainess of Basic Instinct, played by Sharon Stone. The book was written under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf.
Carnovsky, a ribald, coming-of-age romp, was by Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth’s alter-alter-ego in Zuckerman Unbound. It was a parallel to Roth’s real-life book Portnoy’s Complaint.
The Green Enemy was by John Frederick Morlar, referenced in the novel The Medusa Touch by Peter Van Greenaway.
The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick was by Rosie M. Banks, of the “Jeeves” and “Drones Club” books by P.G. Wodehouse.
Hmm… looks like I have to make a new list!
It was - it’s my all-time favourite novel, I’ve read it about 10 times.
That’s the one, thanks!
It could also be argued that Vann Harl contributed nothing to the Guide, except perhaps its downfall, but I won’t hijack this [del]building[/del] thread any more.
Another for the list - Grate Expectations
Edmund Wells (but he’s not very popular)
Correct.
Another for the list The Marylandiad