Literature quiz - Page 3

07-28-2005, 09:07 AM

Right on both counts. I can see I'm soon going to have to up the ante here. Well, it's your turn again...

Leto · 07-28-2005, 09:16 AM

Ok, this is the author :

And this is part of the title :

What's the book ?

07-28-2005, 09:22 AM

Mmm, clever. Is it The catcher in the rye by JD Salinger?

Leto · 07-28-2005, 09:24 AM

Yep, your turn.

07-28-2005, 09:37 AM

OK. These pictures are all somehow connected to this author's books -see if you can figure out who.

Leto · 07-28-2005, 09:58 AM

Umberto Eco.
First pic is from the Name of the Rose, third refers to Baudolino and the last of the Island of the day before (translated directly from the French title, not sure it's the actual English word. The second may be related to the Foucault's Pendulum but I'm not sure.

07-28-2005, 10:05 AM

That's ... uncanny.

Quite right, btw - the picture you didn't recognise was of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, the man who used a pendulum to prove that the earth rotates.

OK, more questions. :biggrin:

Leto · 07-28-2005, 10:10 AM

In a few words :

- suicide
- disco era
- fire bird
- moon & aliens

What is this ? JP, if you think out of the box, you should have no problem to find this one.

Stalker · 07-28-2005, 10:13 AM

The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

Leto · 07-28-2005, 10:17 AM

Not the book I had in mind, simply because I haven't read this one yet.

I'll throw one more word in the hint : woman