# The Literature Feud \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155 "2008-05-13T12:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [May 13, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/21 "2008-05-13T19:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] 1. Raskolnikov 2. Madame Bovary 3. Asta 4. Mary Lennox 5. Camelot 6. Big Brother 7. Tristam Shandy 8. White Noise 9. Salman Rushdie 10. End Game Why do you care so much if people add parenthetical remarks after their answers? Just asking. [/QUOTE] Because I have to delete the parenthetical remarks from every answer. It’s more work. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/22 "2008-05-13T19:17:50Z")
1. Sherlock Holmes 2. Lady Chatterly 3. Marley 4. Pollyanna 5. House of Green Gables 6. Moriarty 7. Pride and Prejudice 8. Hirchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 9. Stephen King 10. The Odd Couple ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/23 "2008-05-13T19:20:38Z")
1. Mr. Darcy 2. Elizabeth Bennett 3. Lassie 4. Heidi 5. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 6. Iago 7. The Scarlet Letter 8. To Kill a Mockingbird 9. Shakespeare 10. Hamlet ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/24 "2008-05-13T19:53:18Z")
1. Sherlock Holmes 2. Jane Eyre 3. Cujo 4. Oliver Twist 5. Middle Earth 6. Professor Moriarty 7. Don Quixote 8. The Great Gatsby 9. Charles Dickens 10. Romeo and Juliet ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/25 "2008-05-13T20:00:35Z")
1. Harry Potter 2. Hermine Granger 3. Snuggles 4. Harry Potter 5. Hogwarts 6. Voldemort 7. The Prince 8. Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone 9. JK Rowling 10. Hamlet I am NOT a Potter nut! I’m just trying to match the replies of other people. This should be a very low scoring game all around. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/26 "2008-05-13T20:10:59Z")
1. Nicholas Nickleby 2. Jane Eyre 3. Old Yeller 4. Oliver Twist 5. Green Gables 6. Bill Sykes 7. Canterbury Tales 8. The Firm 9. John Grisham 10. The Constant Wife ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/27 "2008-05-13T20:14:52Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] I am NOT a Potter nut! I’m just trying to match the replies of other people. This should be a very low scoring game all around. [/QUOTE] What makes you think the participants would be so Potter-centric? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/28 "2008-05-13T20:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] What makes you think the participants would be so Potter-centric? [/QUOTE] I’m usually in the bottom 5, do you really want stratedgery from me? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/29 "2008-05-13T20:19:43Z")
1. Sherlock Holmes 2. Mrs. Coulter 3. Lassie 4. Harry Potter 5. Hogwart’s 6. Randall Flagg 7. Robinson Crusoe 8. Catch-22 9. Charles Dickens 10. Hamlet Gotta think the answers for this game are gonna be all over the map… ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/30 "2008-05-13T20:24:54Z")
1. Robinson Crusoe 2. Emma Bovary 3. Toto 4. Holden Caulfield 5. Bleak House 6. Iago 7. _Robinson Crusoe_ 8. _The Catcher in the Rye_ 9. Mark Twain 10. _Hamlet_ It’ll be interesting to see if the English majors (whose ranks include me) do better than, worse than, or about the same as the scientific types… ---
**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:** [May 13, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/31 "2008-05-13T20:55:28Z")
For a play, why did Shakespeare not even cross my mind? I was busy trying to pick a non-musical. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/32 "2008-05-13T21:02:45Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] For a play, why did Shakespeare not even cross my mind? I was busy trying to pick a non-musical. [/QUOTE] likewise ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/33 "2008-05-13T21:09:58Z")
1. Hamlet 2. Lady MacBeth 3. Big Red 4. Tiny Tim 5. Gotham 6. Dr. Moriarity 7. The Tale of Genji 8. 1984 9. William Shakespeare 10. Hamlet (Yeah, I know Tale of Genji isn’t precisely a modern novel, but…) ETA: And I adjusted 80% of my original answers to try to come up with something that would be more popular. I think there _might_ be a reason why I’m always towards the bottom of these things… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/34 "2008-05-13T21:41:34Z")
1. Hamlet 2. Jane Eyre 3. Toto 4. Harry Potter 5. Hogwarts 6. Voldemort 7. Don Quixote 8. The Great Gatsby 9. Shakespeare 10. Hamlet ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/35 "2008-05-13T22:33:04Z")
1. Frodo Baggins 2. Alice 3. Marley 4. Wendy Darling 5. Tara 6. Sauron 7. The Odyssey 8. Call of the Wild 9. Stephen King 10. The Taming of the Shrew #2 refers to Alice of _Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland_ #3 is the dog from _Marley & Me_ #4 is Wendy from _Peter Pan_ #5, of course, refers to the estate in _Gone With the Wind_. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/36 "2008-05-13T22:43:33Z")
1. Huck Finn 2. Anne of Green Gables 3. Old Yeller 4. Oliver Twist 5. Wuthering Heights 6. Fagin 7. Don Quixote 8. The Da Vinci Code 9. William Shakespeare 10. Hamlet BTW, **Dolores** – what exactly is your beef with the list coding? (Just askin’.) ETA: OK, now that I’ve posted my list, I went back and saw your post regarding parentheticals and such–now I understand. Sorry if I sounded a bit peevish. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/37 "2008-05-13T22:50:26Z")
1. Stephen Dedalus 2. Molly Bloom 3. Blood 4. Milo 5. Elsinore 6. Simon Legree 7. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 8. Gravity’s Rainbow 9. Thomas Pynchon 10. Waiting for Godot Blood is the dog in “A Boy and His Dog,” Milo is the kid in “The Phantom Tollbooth” [I took this as a word-association exercise, which I now realize is not the point. Oops.] ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/38 "2008-05-13T23:07:37Z")
Does anybody else feel incredibly relieved when someone else matches an answer you were worried about? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/39 "2008-05-13T23:12:41Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] Does anybody else feel incredibly relieved when someone else matches an answer you were worried about? [/QUOTE] I find myself giving a :smack: looking at other people’s answers. I answered quickly. Why did I say _Taming of the Shrew_ when so many more people know _Hamlet_? How did I miss all these good answers? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155/40 "2008-05-13T23:37:30Z")
1. Harry Potter 2. Juliet 3. Spot 4. Harry Potter again 5. Narnia 6. Voldemort 7. The Bible 8. The DaVinci Code 9. J.R.R. Tolkien 10. Romeo and Juliet. (shut up I’m pandering to popularity!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-literature-feud-closed/449155.md?page=3)