# The Bookshelf Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509 "2004-06-09T19:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/21 "2004-06-14T03:47:42Z")
Well, I have **a** book on horse training, so I’ll run with that. Next to it is _PVP: The Dork Ages_. Cripes, I gotta organize these shelves. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/22 "2004-06-14T04:41:03Z")
> [@Graycat](#): > > My Zelazny books are flanked by \*The Year’s Best Science Fiction \* (about 8 years worth) edited by Donald A. Wollheim, and the first category in my nonfiction shelves, Agriculture, several books on horse training and horse farming. Not to step on **Hal’s** toes, but in case anybody else is flummoxed by \*_PVC" teh Dork Years_, on the other side of my copy of _The Year’s Best Sicience Fiction_ is Charles DeLint’s _the Onion Girl_. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/23 "2004-06-14T04:42:09Z")
Every once in a while, I’m reminded to preview. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/24 "2004-06-14T18:10:28Z")
> [@](#): > > The Year’s Best Science Fiction William Sleator is considered science fiction, right? I have Singularity and House of Stairs. (I know I’m really stretching it already, but if that doesn’t work I’m prepared to go to the Bradbury titles!) _thumps thread_ Live, damn you! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/25 "2004-06-14T18:36:49Z")
I wanna play soooo bad, but I don’t have any of these books. [exasperated] Don’t you people read anything besides science fiction? [/exasperated] ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/26 "2004-06-14T19:49:10Z")
Maybe y’all would have a little more success if you amended the rules to allow the next participant to post if s/he has a book sharing a noun of significance with the previous poster. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/27 "2004-06-14T21:17:02Z")
Well, using the amended rules, I have The Cider HOUSE Rules, by John Irving. Next to that is Naked Came the Manatee by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Elmore Leonard, Paul Levine, and actually eight others, but hopefully some of the ones mentioned will do. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/28 "2004-06-14T21:54:26Z")
William Sleator! I have _Interstellar Pig_ and _Parasite Pig_. Next to them is: _The autobiography of Bejamin Franklin_. Somebody else has got to have that one. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/29 "2004-06-15T18:13:57Z")
Wow, I really didn’t think this thread was going to take off after it was dead for about a day after I posted it. Well…I don’t have any Autobiographies, or anything by or about Benjamin Franklin, but I do have Twilight **of** the Idols, by Nietzsche. Since I’m the OP, I get to mold the rules to my liking, and damnit, it fits. ---
**Author:** ![Mirth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Mirth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/30 "2004-06-15T19:47:21Z")
using the noun rule: I have _Crossroads of Twilight_ by Robert Jordan which is in between _Foundations in Spanish_ and _A Princess of Mars_ by ER Burroughs ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/31 "2004-06-15T20:01:02Z")
FINALLY! Using the noun rule, I have _The **Princess** Bride_, by S. Morgenstern, which is next to _Rebecca_, by Daphne Du Maurier. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/32 "2004-06-15T20:11:41Z")
_The Princess Bride_ is between _A Wrinkle in Time_ and _Eyes of the Dragon_. (yes, the lower half of that bookshelf belongs to my kids. Why do you ask?) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/33 "2004-06-15T20:15:25Z")
I have Eyes of the Dragon. It’s in a separate bookcase which contains, I believe, all of Mr. King’s published works. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509/34 "2004-06-15T20:22:30Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I have Eyes of the Dragon. It’s in a separate bookcase which contains, I believe, all of Mr. King’s published works. Well, my copy of _Eyes of the Dragon_ has slipped off its shelf and is currently nestling against Robert Parker’s _Perish Twice_ and Elizabeth George’s _A Place of Hiding_. (Neither of which, by the way, is where it’s supposed to be either, in the grand scheme of things.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bookshelf-game/249509.md?page=1)