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View original post... is that so far everyone has gotten #6 in spite of my deliberate attempt to make it sound like the story of a homeless orphan girl turned hooker. Maybe if I'd substituted 'craven' in for cowardly and left out Kansas?
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6. First published in 1899, this book tells the story of an orphan girl after her home is hit by a cyclone, and her travels and encounters as a street walker with a number of cowardly, heartless, and stupid men in a land totally unlike her home in rural Kansas.
View original postI liked the way you phrased it. I thought it was fairly clever. Your suggestions here would probably improve it even further, but that said, as soon as I read "1899", "girl" and "home is hit by a cyclone", I knew what it was — to the point where I had to stop and read the "street walker" bit twice to make sure I wasn't seeing things.
Ah, excellent. Mission achieved... probably for the best I left out the midgets
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Test Your Geekdom, Vol XVI: A Novel Idea
30/06/2013 05:57:49 PM
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I got 24 points
30/06/2013 08:12:36 PM
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For my money you should get partial credit for "Mona Lisa Overdrive."
11/08/2013 11:41:04 PM
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18, and a couple of them I only got because the title is rephrased in the hint. *NM*
30/06/2013 08:28:09 PM
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This won't go well.
30/06/2013 08:46:13 PM
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Re: This won't go well.
30/06/2013 11:27:23 PM
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I'm not picking on you, I just wanted more points.
01/07/2013 07:18:11 PM
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Well, I'll have to take it up with High Council of Geeks but you raise a valid point
01/07/2013 10:20:34 PM
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Twenty-five. That's more than I was expecting...
30/06/2013 08:47:14 PM
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You know what surprises me...
30/06/2013 11:11:34 PM
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Re: You know what surprises me...
01/07/2013 12:31:29 AM
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01/07/2013 02:52:46 AM
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01/07/2013 05:23:47 PM
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Oi.
01/07/2013 07:17:05 PM
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come on the numbers time you have said "random thoughts posted what I was going to post"
02/07/2013 01:11:23 AM
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That probably includes several people who haven't even read it, or seen the movie.
01/07/2013 06:11:51 PM
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I'll have a bash Edit: I got just 14. Should have gotten number 2.
01/07/2013 01:38:47 AM
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Despite having read only a fraction of these, I would have scored 29/32 if I hadn't checked
01/07/2013 07:40:29 AM
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For what it is worth, I recommend the Sprawl Trilogy as entertaining and thought provoking.
11/08/2013 11:49:41 PM
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Re no. 2 – did we find out her parentage in that book? If not, I don't think the question's fair.
02/07/2013 09:42:09 PM
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