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I suck at this game....
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shadowbinding shoe wrote:It's that special! OK, hint time: the name of the book is "The _______ World"
I've once more exhausted my Googling skills. I came up with:
  • The Known World
    The Free World
    The Lost World
But none seem to be right :?

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Just a wild guess.... The Brown World?
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ussusimiel wrote:
shadowbinding shoe wrote:It's that special! OK, hint time: the name of the book is "The _______ World"
I've once more exhausted my Googling skills. I came up with:

The Known World
nope.
The Free World
No, but it kind of fits the subject of the story.
The Lost World
No, but again has some relevance tothe story

deer of the dawn wrote: Just a wild guess.... The Brown World?
While this is not the name of the book it fits it surprisingly well.

OK, more hints: The author knows Electronics and built his own answering machine as a teen.
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Got it!

Garbage World by Charles Platt.


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without googling...

breaking away?
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Nope.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!

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Iolanthe wrote:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Spot on!

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Thanks U. I admit to googling! :oops:

This is from one of my all time favourite authors:
A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment.
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Iolanthe wrote:Thanks U. I admit to googling! :oops:
All part of the game, Iolanthe :lol:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of my favourite books. If you're interested in philosophy it's a great read (Plato and Aristotle come in for a huge amount of flak and the author raises some fascinating questions about the influence of their philosophies.)

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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Correct! Your go Stevie. :D
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Of course, I lost weight.
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:P The Autobiography of Oprah Winfrey.
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Eh, sorry incorrect Deer :lol:

Hint: it is one of the authors featured on this site, ie:

- Donaldson
- Rowling
- King
- Martin
- Tolkien
- Erikson
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All I'm getting on google is links to slimming sites!! :Help:
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Is it Stephen King's Thinner?
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Good guess Deer, but incorrect!

Next hint: Ok so it isn't Tolkien - he wouldn't start a book like that :P and it isn't Rowling, or Martin.

That leaves King, Donaldson and Erikson.
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