/lit/ - Literature

>>23470863
Yes. People who are going to commit suicide, or people in the process of it, or other people remembering them after the event (depending roughly on where we are in the quiz).

Perhaps a bit macabre for a cute anime girl, but Yoshiko is too stupid to understand what's going on anyway.

>>23005182
Correct. (The centipede is much more legitimately scary than the film's spider since those big tropical centipedes are lethal.)

>>22737267
>18)
>Anyway, I used to hate Iggy Pop but now that he's so commercial I like him a lot better than —
>A shot in the dark but the pop music talk makes me think American Psycho.
It could be. If it is, maybe someone can nail the character. (As you might say.)

>>21615119
>51 - Life on the Mississippi
Hmm, I guess it has something in common but it wasn't what I meant. I don't think it fits perfectly.

>>21615145
>84 - Butcher's crossing
Correct. (JW in there led someone to suggest Stoner for 71.)

>>21615156
>55 - Oliver Twist
Right. Famous work but slightly dodgy description.

>>21615163
>59 - A streetcar named desire
Correct.

>>21533096
A good number here. Will this be the second quiz to get completed?

>3. Infinite jest
>5. Sherlock holmes
>7. Trainspotting
>8. Going postal (I saw this one before starting. I am a cheater.)
>9. Dr zhivago
>10. Don Quixote
>18. The trial
Correct, although others got them already. (5 = A Study in Scarlet)

>1. Charlotte's Web
Correct. E. B. White. (Same guy who did Elements of Style IIRC.)

>2. Feynman's sutobiography
Correct. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" (Normally we like a title but this was close enough.)

>4. Anatomy of melancholy
Correct. Robert Burton. A book with more quotations in than any other hundred books.

>6. The secret garden
Correct. Frances Hodgson Burnett. We're now on 2/13 female authors. (Someone got Agatha Christie already.)

>11. Time enough for love
Correct. Robert Heinlein. TEFL is a bit of a mixed bag but I thought this chapter & the one about the guy going out into the wilderness with his wife were pretty good.

>13. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Correct. Another female author nailed. As you might say.

>14. Lord of the flies
Correct, William Golding.

>15. Puck of pook's hill
Correct. Kipling.

>16. 20,000 leagues under the sea
Correct. Misdirection, maybe. (Someone thought it was Moby Dick.)

>17. Bridget Jones's diary
Correct. A bit trashy, but never mind. We're on 4/13 female authors!

>19. The prisoner of zenda
Correct. Anthony Hope. Memorable if you've read it; pretty hard if you haven't. (Hero gets trapped at night in a summer-house by armed enemies. He picks up a heavy tea-table by its base and charges out, using it as a bullet-proof shield.)

>>21425756
Haha, yes, all correct, sort of.

>>19795067