# Night Time Feud: Not Necessarily Great Literature by Baker \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 8, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260 "2008-08-08T03:31:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [August 8, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/41 "2008-08-08T17:33:22Z")
Damnit! Forgot all about Tarzan. But I figured Clan of the Cave Bear was a safe bet since Dopers tend to like it. I’m glad I went with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And I agree with you, **OtakuLoki** –Emma Bovary’s death was nothing compared to Old Yeller’s. (Though I have to admit, I was sadder after Where the Red Fern Grows than after Old Yeller…poor Old Dan, poor Little Ann.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/42 "2008-08-08T17:35:55Z")
1. _Foundation_ Trilogy 2. _Lost Horizon_ 3. _Tarzan of the Apes_ 4. Barbara Cartland 5. Dick Francis 6. Hercule Poirot 7. _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_ 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9. _Anna Karenina_ 10. _Black Beauty_ 11. My sentimental favorite is [_The Magic Tunnel_,](http://www.amazon.com/The-Magic-Tunnel/dp/B000B3ZFUG) but I’m going for the points here. 12. Actually “suicide by train”, as opposed to her hand (shooting/stabbing self, taking poison), but I’m confident of at least a few matches here. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/43 "2008-08-08T17:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] 9. Actually “suicide by train”, as opposed to her hand (shooting/stabbing self, taking poison), but I’m confident of at least a few matches here. [/QUOTE] Good point. I was wondering if that counted, but then I just decided to parse “by their own hand” as general suicide rather than a more literal meaning. Plus, it does seem to be getting quite a few matches here. Also, I decided to be literal when it said novel (as opposed to play), though I suppose it doesn’t really make a difference when it comes to the matches? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/44 "2008-08-08T17:50:58Z")
I never did think of Romeo and Juliet for #9, but I’ll concede that characters from a play should be counted. And I gave the thread idea. As to #3, no love for Mowgli I see. And I liked \*\*El Kabong’s \*\* answer, that’s not one I remembered. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/45 "2008-08-08T17:58:14Z")
1. The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies 2. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle 3. Tarzan of the Apes 4. Barbara Cartland 5. Dick Francis 6. Father Brown 7. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9. Jude the Obscure 10. Black Beauty ---
**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:** [August 8, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/46 "2008-08-08T18:02:54Z")
[QUOTE=42fish] 9. Romeo and Juliet 1. Not actually a novel, but I’m guessing it will be popular anyway [/QUOTE] I don’t think it should count. It was the first thing I thought of, but I specifically rejected it as not being a novel. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/47 "2008-08-08T18:31:59Z")
There is no “wrong” answer, remember… ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/48 "2008-08-08T18:57:57Z")
1. His Dark Materials 2. The Lost World 3. Tarzan 4. Barbara Cartland 5. Dick Francis 6. Hercule Poirot 7. The Time Machine 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9. Romeo & Juliet 10. Charlotte’s Web Joe ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/49 "2008-08-08T19:21:14Z")
1. The Foundation Series 2. The Lost World 3. The Color Purple 4. Danielle Steele 5. Dick Francis 6. Hercule Poirot 7. The Time Machine 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9. Jude the Obscure 10. Black Beauty 11. It better not be the _The Deptford Trilogy_. 12. Nettie, Celie’s sister wasn’t quite an adult when she and her missionary guardians moved to Africa. 13. I loved _Rascal_ but too much of a long shot. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/50 "2008-08-08T19:28:48Z")
Though not scoring on exactness, is _Romeo and Juliet_ considered a novel? ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/51 "2008-08-08T19:43:30Z")
1. _Perelandra_ Trilogy 2. _The Lost World_ 3. _Clan of the Cave Bear_ 4. Danielle Steele 5. pass 6. Hercule Poirot 7. _A Connecticutt Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_ 8. Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler 9. _Madame Bovary_ 10. _Old Yeller_ 11. C. S. Lewis 12. Doyle’s, if it matters 13. drawing a blank; in too big a hurry to google it 14. Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina, Emma or Anna, Emma or Anna . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/52 "2008-08-08T20:36:17Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] #9 - McWatt flies his plane into a mountain deliberately after accidentally slicing Kid Sampson in half. [/QUOTE] There are no wrong answers, but I would argue that McWatt is not a “main” character. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/53 "2008-08-08T23:07:58Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Welcome to the Feud! [/QUOTE] Ta muchly! (means thank you) ---
**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:** [August 9, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/54 "2008-08-09T00:51:26Z")
**This’ll Do** is only #37. A lot of chatter in this Feud! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/55 "2008-08-09T01:04:08Z")
1. The “Dune” trilogy 2. “King Solomon’s Mines” 3. Tarzan 4. Danielle Steele 5. Dick Francis 6. Hercule Poirot 7. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9. “Anna Karenina” 10. “Beautiful Joe” ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/56 "2008-08-09T01:16:15Z")
1. Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy 2. King Solomon’s Mines 3. Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 4. Barbara Cartland 5. Dick Francis 6. Hercule Poirot 7. The Time Machine 8. Scarlett O’Hara 9 The Great Gatsby 9. Ol’ Yeller ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/57 "2008-08-09T01:22:20Z")
1. Dos Passos USA 2. Journey to Cetrr of Earth 3. Tarzan 4. Shakespeare 5. Jenkins 6. Charlie Chan 7. The TIme Machine 8. Scarlett in Gone withh Wind 9. Romeo and Juliet 10. Travels with Charley ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/58 "2008-08-09T03:18:38Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] 10. “Beautiful Joe” [/QUOTE] That’s one I would never have thought of to mention! I’ve never even met anyone else who’d read that book! ---
**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:** [August 9, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/59 "2008-08-09T12:48:03Z")
The Answers: **1. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 10** 1. His Dark Materials 8 2. Dune 4 3. Foundation Trilogy 4 4. The Foundation Trilogy 4 5. U.S.A. by John Dos Passos 2 6. Ariminta Station 1 7. C.S. Lewis’ Space trilogy 1 8. Dragonlance Chronicles 1 9. John Jakes’ North and South trilogy 1 10. Perelandra Trilogy 1 11. The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant 1 12. The Deptford Trilogy 1 13. The Earthsea Trilogy 1 **2. The Lost World 17** 2. Lost Horizon 7 2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 4 2. Pellucidar 3 2. King Solomon’s Mines 2 2. Herland 1 2. Jurassic Park 1 2. pass 1 2. Planet of the Apes 1 2. She 1 2. The Drowned World 1 2. The moon Pool 1 **3. Tarzan 22** 3. Clan of the Cave Bear 5 3. Stranger in a Strange Land 4 3. Great Expectations 1 3. Harry Potter series 1 3. Kim 1 3. Little Big Man 1 3. Perdita 1 3. The Color Purple 1 3. The Joy Luck Club 1 3. The Jungle Book 1 3. The Metal Monster 1 **4. Danielle Steele 18** 4. Barbara Cartland 10 4. Nora Roberts 5 4. Barbara Kingsley 1 4. Emily Bronte 1 4. Fern Michaels 1 4. Jackie Collins 1 4. Judith Krantz 1 4. Sax Rohmer 1 4. Shakespeare 1 **5. Dick Francis 22** 5. Dan Jenkins 2 5. W.P. Kinsella 2 5. Bernard Malamud 1 5. George Plimpton 1 5. Glenn Stout 1 5. Jenkins 1 5. John Ritter 1 5. Mark Harris 1 5. Matt Christopher 1 5. No Clue, No Credit 1 5. pass 1 5. pass 2 1 5. pass 3 1 5. Peter Gent 1 5. Robert Lipsyte 1 5. Zane Grey 1 **6. Hercule Poirot 23** 6. Miss Marple 3 6. Nero Wolfe 3 6. Nancy Drew 2 6. Philip Marlowe 2 6. Sam Spade 2 6. Charlie Chan 1 6. Father Brown 1 6. Lord Peter 1 6. Red Kerry 1 6. Richard Jury 1 **7. The Time Machine 18** 7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 11 7. Outlander 2 7. Slaughterhouse Five 2 7. The Time Traveler’s Wife 2 7. Dinosaur Beach 1 7. Dragons of Pern 1 7. Lest Darkness Fall 1 7. Many Waters 1 7. Somewhere In Time 1 **8. Scarlett O’Hara 28** 8. Henry VIII 4 8. Bluebeard 1 8. Dianne Demorney 1 8. Everyman (from the Philip Roth novel) 1 8. Gladia Delmarre 1 8. Lazarus Long 1 8. pass 1 8. Pass 2 1 8. Preacher’s Girl 1 **9. Romeo and Juliet 9** 9. Anna Karenina 8 9. Madame Bovary 6 9. Jude the Obscure 2 9. The Great Gatsby 1 9. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1 9. Catch-22 1 9. Chocolat 1 9. Holes (Kissing Kate Barlow) 1 9. House of Mirth 1 9. Les Miserables 1 9. pass 1 9. Shogun 1 9. The Awakening 1 9. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1 9. The Sorrows of Young Werther 1 9. The Sound and the Fury 1 9. Until I Find You 1 9. Valley of the Dolls 1 **10. Old Yeller 11** 10. Charlotte’s Web 9 10. Black Beauty 7 10. Cujo 3 10. Flowers for Algernon 2 10. White Fang 2 10. Beautiful Joe 1 10. Because of Winn-Dixie 1 10. Bunnicula 1 10. Lassie Come Home 1 10. My Friend Flicka 1 10. Travels with Charley 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:** [August 9, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260/60 "2008-08-09T13:01:55Z")
And the winner is ~~~drumroll~~~ \*\*wheresgeorge04 \*\*!!! Way to go, Joe! :: flings confetti:: \*\*wheresgeorge04 \*\* got 7/10 right. Total possible was 445. Thanks everybody! And thanks to **Baker** for a challenging one! New one up later this morning. \*\*1. wheresgeorge04 415.00 \*\* 2. Sigmagirl 385.00 3. Sternvogel 355.00 4. anyrose 350.00 5. bmoak 350.00 6. One And Only Wanderers 347.50 7. winterhawk11 347.50 8. 5-4-Fighting 347.50 9. 42fish 345.00 10. Spoons 345.00 11. Freudian Slit 327.50 12. Shodan 327.50 13. MsWhatsit 307.50 14. bibliophage 305.00 15. cmkeller 302.50 16. OtakuLoki 300.00 17. Thudlow Boink 297.50 18. This’ll Do 297.50 19. astorian 290.00 20. want2know 285.00 21. delphica 280.00 22. RachelChristine 272.50 23. swampbear 272.50 24. Lsura 265.00 25. Queen Tonya 252.50 26. Scarlett67 250.00 27. Baker 245.00 28. Gangster Octopus 235.00 29. Mtgman 232.50 30. Elendil’s Heir 230.00 31. Purgatory Creek 227.50 32. Petrobey Mavromihalis 227.50 33. Dead Cat 217.50 34. gonzomax 207.50 35. Dolores Reborn 180.00 36. jali 172.50 37. El\_Kabong 145.00 38. Windwalker 127.50 39. Ducktail 82.50 40. Harmonious Discord 45.00 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-time-feud-not-necessarily-great-literature-by-baker-closed/459260.md?page=4)