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 Post subject: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 9:33 am 
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John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell? Oh deary me......

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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:10 am 
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Hells bells. Was someone expecting A.A. Milne instead? Image Image

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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 11:32 am 
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did they run the same old Sara Paretsky question that I've seen 500 times?


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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:21 pm 
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liljol wrote:
Hells bells. Was someone expecting A.A. Milne instead? Image Image


In all honesty 12 questions were fine. One was debateable and the remaining two fell outside any definition of literary that would communicate any generally accepted definition of the term. I doubt even Grisham and Cornwell would claim that they produce literature. That's not even snobbery. Great storytellers, like Grisham is and Cornwell may very well be (no idea personally), are to be honest somewhat rarer and therefore somehwat more precious a commodity than great literary writers.

And make no mistake I'm not whining about points here either. I nailed the Grisham AND the Stephen King Qs and blew Daniel Deronda for 85pts or so well after 3rd clue. It doesn't stop Deronda being literature and Runaway Jury being fiction just because I knew the latter and not the former.

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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:38 pm 
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It looked like a pretty tough game. I wandered in as the 1st Q (Nicholas Nickleby) came up. Had to gather up the boxes amidst the crowd watching the Cavs-Lakers gm. (forgot to plan ahead there) Nick Easter didn't seem outrageous, since Grisham books maybe are more widely read than some other stuff that sells well today. Didn't know Daniel Deronda. That one might reappear in Showdown someday, so I guess it's good to know.

The folks @ West Park Station were a little bummed they didn't have five boxes in play when the nat'l scores turned out to be pretty low.


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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:52 pm 
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Well, after further review, I suppose it should have been lil if any surprise that there wasn't a question on the creator of Charlie Swan. Image

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 Post subject: Re: Literary characters
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:58 pm 
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It's because I wasn't writing that game, Joel! :)


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