# The Daily Feud: Fiction & Fiction Authors by 5-4-Fighting \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 12, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739 "2008-08-12T15:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/61 "2008-08-13T15:02:31Z")
1. Um… Thomas (M.) Disch? 2. _The Hunt for Red October_ 3. _Twelfth Night_ 4. _The Da Vinci Code_ 5. _The Naked Lunch_ 6. J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien 7. C.S. Forester 8. \*Christine \* 9. _Battlefield Earth_ 10. The Hunt for Red October I love it when I get to use the same answer twice! ETA: How the hell did I miss Mark Twain? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/62 "2008-08-13T15:34:34Z")
Five more to go before we call it a wrap? ---
**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 13, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/63 "2008-08-13T15:40:16Z")
That’s correct - or 4:00 pm this afternoon… **Really Not All That Bright** is #45. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/64 "2008-08-13T16:46:31Z")
I don’t read enough to play, but I’m subscribing so I can see the answers later ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/65 "2008-08-13T18:04:46Z")
1. Mark Twain 2. The Red Badge of Courage 3. Flowers in the Attic 4. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 5. The Grapes of Wrath 6. Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert 7. Philippa Gregory 8. Misery 9. Pillars of the Earth 10. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Just for the record, I despise Philippa Gregory, but I think she’s well-known now. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/66 "2008-08-13T20:10:37Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] MARK TWAIN! GAH! I could NOT, for the life of me, think of any author with MT or TM initials. GAAAAH! [/QUOTE] Not a lot of Thomas Mann fans around 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 13, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/67 "2008-08-13T20:15:54Z")
Does this mean we get a nighttime feud tonight? ---
**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 13, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/68 "2008-08-13T20:21:44Z")
Yes, tonight we are running the Least Popular Answer Feud. It was originally scheduled for Thursday night, but my scoring helper **5-4-Fighting** has obligations on Friday. It will post soon. ---
**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 13, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/69 "2008-08-13T21:12:04Z")
Ok - stick a fork in 'er - this one’s done. The Answers: Any errors will have to be corrected tomorrow. Of course, there will be no stinkin’ errors! 😉 **1. Mark Twain 40** 1. Toni Morrison 3 2. Mark Thompson 1 3. Pass 1 4. Um… Thomas (M.) Disch? 1 **2. The Red Badge of Courage 12** 2. The Hunt for Red October 6 2. The Scarlet Letter 5 2. Black Beauty 3 2. The Green Mile 3 2. A Clockwork Orange 2 2. Anne of Green Gables 2 2. How Green Was My Valley 2 2. The Red Tent 2 2. A Patch of Blue 1 2. A Study in Scarlet 1 2. Masque of the Red Death 1 2. Red Dragon 1 2. Red Rabbit 1 2. The Color of Money 1 2. The Colour of Magic 1 2. Where the Red Fern Grows 1 2. White Fang 1 **3. The Chronicles of Narnia 12** 3. To Kill a Mockingbird 9 3. Flowers in the Attic 6 3. Hansel and Gretel 4 3. Twelfth Night 2 3. Anne of Green Gables 1 3. Atlas Shrugged 1 3. Children of Dune 1 3. Darkly Dreaming Dexter 1 3. Hotel New Hampshire 1 3. Podkayne of Mars 1 3. The Boxcar Children 1 3. The Cat in the Hat 1 3. The Fall of the House of Usher 1 3. The Great Santini 1 3. The Hotel New Hampshire 1 3. The Secret History 1 3. Wuthering Heights 1 **4. Forrest Gump 9** TIE **4. Ragtime 9** TIE 4. Slaughterhouse Five 2 4. The Alienist 2 4. 1632 1 4. Being John Malkovich 1 4. Burr 1 4. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 1 4. Dante’s Inferno 1 4. Day Of The Jackal 1 4. Farmer’s Riverworld series 1 4. First Among Equals 1 4. Flashman 1 4. Follow the River 1 4. Glamorama 1 4. Gravity’s Rainbow 1 4. Henry IV 1 4. In Cold Blood 1 4. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 1 4. Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles 1 4. Primary Colors 1 4. Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella 1 4. System of the World 1 4. The Da Vinci Code 1 4. The Divine Comedy 1 4. The Final Addiction 1 4. The Seven Percent Solution 1 4. Winds of War 1 **5. The Grapes of Wrath 20** 5. Like Water for Chocolate 7 5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 6 5. Chocolat 3 5. Bread and Jam for Frances 1 5. Green Eggs and Ham 1 5. How To Eat Fried Worms 1 5. Oranges are not the Only Fruit 1 5. pass 1 5. Salad Days 1 5. The Cat Who Said Cheese 1 5. The Naked Lunch 1 5. Tortilla Flat 1 5. Who moved my cheese 1 **6. Alexandre Dumas, père et fils 16** 6. Kingsley and Martin Amis 6 6. Stephen King and Joe Hill 5 6. J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien 4 6. Frank and Brian Herbert 3 6. Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark 3 6. Michael and Jeff Shaara 2 6. God & Jesus Christ 1 6. I can’t think of any 1 6. John and Susan Cheever 1 6. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane 1 6. Mary Wollestonecraft and Mary Shelley 1 6. pass 1 6. Rosamund and Robin Pilcher 1 **7. James Michener 11** 7. John Jakes 5 7. Colleen McCullough 3 7. Philippa Gregory 3 7. Umberto Eco 3 7. C.S. Forester 2 7. Gore Vidal 2 7. James Clavell 2 7. Margaret Mitchell 2 7. Caleb Carr 1 7. Charles Dickens 1 7. David McCullough 1 7. Diana Gabaldon 1 7. Edward Rutherford 1 7. Gary Jennings 1 7. James Fenimore Cooper 1 7. Ken Follett 1 7. Mary Renault 1 7. Michael Shaara 1 7. Patrick O’Brian 1 7. Rita Mae Brown 1 7. Steve Barry 1 **8. The Shining 17** 8. Carrie 14 8. It 3 8. Misery 3 8. Christine 2 8. The Stand 2 8. Cujo 1 8. Dolores Claiborne 1 8. pass 1 8. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption 1 8. The Green Mile 1 **9. Gone with the Wind 16** 9. The Good Earth 11 9. The Wind in the Willows 7 9. Battlefield Earth 3 9. A Wizard of Earthsea 1 9. Bonfire of the Vanities 1 9. Chariots of Fire 1 9. Earth Abides 1 9. Gates of Fire 1 9. Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1 9. Pillars of the Earth 1 9. The Day the Earth Stood Still 1 9. This Earth of Mankind 1 **10. Moby-Dick 26** 10. The Old Man and the Sea 4 10. The Hunt for Red October 3 10. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 3 10. Treasure Island 2 10. Heart of Darkness 1 10. Huckleberry Finn 1 10. Master and Commander 1 10. Mutiny on the Bounty 1 10. Ship of Fools 1 10. The Odyssey 1 10. The One Tree 1 10. The Sea Wolf 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 13, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/70 "2008-08-13T21:21:38Z")
And the winner is ~~~drumroll~~~ **Soon to be swimming with the fishes**! Just kidding. **42fish** wins again! Good job! 8 out of 10 right. Perfect=389.14. The Night Time Feud is up. \*\*1. 42fish 367.39 \*\* 2. Spoons 356.52 3. swampbear 350.00 4. astorian 347.83 5. winterhawk11 336.96 6. This’ll Do 334.78 7. Sigmagirl 332.61 8. wheresgeorge04 330.43 9. tarragon918 330.43 10. bmoak 313.04 11. Thudlow Boink 310.87 12. Biffy the Elephant Shrew 300.00 13. Panurge 300.00 14. cmkeller 293.48 15. Freudian Slit 291.30 16. 5 time champ 282.61 17. bibliophage 278.26 18. HongKongFooey 265.22 19. want2know 250.00 20. Sternvogel 250.00 21. Queen Tonya 243.48 22. Larry Borgia 241.30 23. Scarlett67 239.13 24. 3acresandatruck 230.43 25. Paintcharge 217.39 26. jali 210.87 27. Beadalin 210.87 28. Windwalker 210.87 29. Eleanor of Aquitaine 195.65 30. ivan astikov 189.13 31. fusoya 186.96 32. Fretful Porpentine 184.78 33. MsWhatsit 182.61 34. Dolores Reborn 180.43 35. 5-4-Fighting 180.43 36. Petrobey Mavromihalis 178.26 37. Dead Cat 176.09 38. RachelChristine 173.91 39. pravnik 171.74 40. Baker 165.22 41. Sam Stone 158.70 42. Gangster Octopus 156.52 43. lawoot 139.13 44. SpazCat 113.04 45. Elendil’s Heir 56.52 46. Really Not All That Bright 47.83 ---
**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 13, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/71 "2008-08-13T21:23:20Z")
Alpha: 3acresandatruck 230.43 42fish 367.39 5 time champ 282.61 5-4-Fighting 180.43 astorian 347.83 Baker 165.22 Beadalin 210.87 bibliophage 278.26 Biffy the Elephant Shrew 300.00 bmoak 313.04 cmkeller 293.48 Dead Cat 176.09 Dolores Reborn 180.43 Eleanor of Aquitaine 195.65 Elendil’s Heir 56.52 Fretful Porpentine 184.78 Freudian Slit 291.30 fusoya 186.96 Gangster Octopus 156.52 HongKongFooey 265.22 ivan astikov 189.13 jali 210.87 Larry Borgia 241.30 lawoot 139.13 MsWhatsit 182.61 Paintcharge 217.39 Panurge 300.00 Petrobey Mavromihalis 178.26 pravnik 171.74 Queen Tonya 243.48 RachelChristine 173.91 Really Not All That Bright 47.83 Sam Stone 158.70 Scarlett67 239.13 Sigmagirl 332.61 SpazCat 113.04 Spoons 356.52 Sternvogel 250.00 swampbear 350.00 tarragon918 330.43 This’ll Do 334.78 Thudlow Boink 310.87 want2know 250.00 wheresgeorge04 330.43 Windwalker 210.87 winterhawk11 336.96 ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/72 "2008-08-13T21:23:57Z")
w00t! 5th! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/73 "2008-08-13T21:24:54Z")
Dead last! Finally, distinction is achieved! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/74 "2008-08-13T21:26:17Z")
Thirty-fifth in my own feud. Boy, I really overthought that one – or I just suck. ☹ ---
**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 13, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/75 "2008-08-13T21:41:55Z")
You just felt bad that you won the last one you ran! 😉 ---
**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 13, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/76 "2008-08-13T21:42:32Z")
Cool, this was a really fun one! I love the fiction related ones. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/77 "2008-08-13T21:49:26Z")
I’m just happy I wasn’t the only one who named _The Alienist_, my favorite NYC-related novel (with a couple cameos by police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/78 "2008-08-13T21:55:07Z")
I think I’m too late, but… 1: Mark Twain 2: The Thin Red Line 3: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 4: Picasso at La Lapin Agile 5: How to Eat Fried Worms 6: J. R. R. and Christopher Tolkien 7: Margaret Mitchell 8: It 9: Courage Under Fire 10: Titanic \*1: I accidentally saw some other answers before I posted this. Hard to say whether I would have come up with him on my own. \*4: Probably won’t rank too high, but was a great play. ---
**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 13, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/79 "2008-08-13T21:57:10Z")
Sorry! [Here,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479314) try the new one. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739/80 "2008-08-13T23:25:02Z")
Cool! I came in third. That makes me a literate Trekie. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-feud-fiction-fiction-authors-by-5-4-fighting-closed/459739.md?page=5)