Name That Book!

[poohcarrot]

First clue to the mystery book is a quote from the book itself.

"Have you scanned them? Digitized them?"
"No. Only paper is safe. The authorities are ever vigilant for sedition on the net. As we have learned to our cost, they scan constantly for the key words or phrases. Oh, a story or a poem might survive undetected for a while; I doubt the average policeman or Temple elder would recognise a Shakespeare sonnet if it were to beat them with a rubber truncheon. But there are key names and areas of knowledge which they pursue relentlessly. Not surprisingly, these are the same names and areas which every Humanist is pledged to study and to understand. Darwin and evolution above all, for the theory of evolution is the creed at the very core of the resistance, but there are many thousands of others....."

 

[poohcarrot]

If you can't get it from the first clue, the second clue will be information about the author him/herself. :dance:

 

[author3]

Is it meant to be by anybody in particular

 

[The Mad Collector]

I'd say what it is but Barbieheart won't let me

 

[chris.ph]

dan brown seeing as he is a well known airport author

 

[poohcarrot]

Well done Mad. You're turn. :dance:

 

[Quatermass]

Did Mad actually get it?

I would've guessed, offhand, that it was Blind Faith by Ben Elton.

 

[poohcarrot]

OK Q. You're turn then. :clap:

 

[The Mad Collector]

In fact I deliberately didn't get it

 

[Quatermass]

Well, I don't know how easy this one will be, but this is a book I have just read today. In fact, I've spoilt it in another thread. But here is the line on the back (and the first lines of the book) anyway, because it's a hilarious one.

At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways- with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.

 

[author3]

Wait Skagra was in the Doctor Who episode Shada which had the Fourth Doctor in it wasn't he.

 

[Quatermass]

Wait Skagra was in the Doctor Who episode Shada which had the Fourth Doctor in it wasn't he.

Uh, yes. Are you referring to the TV show that never made it to air, or the recently released novelisation by Gareth Roberts?

 

[poohcarrot]

I believe author is referring to the former.

 

[Quatermass]

My point was that the book I was quoting was the novelisation. And the whole point of this thread is about books, not TV shows.

BTW, Doctor Who: Shada is an excellent book.

 

[author3]

Wait Skagra was in the Doctor Who episode Shada which had the Fourth Doctor in it wasn't he.

Uh, yes. Are you referring to the TV show that never made it to air, or the recently released novelisation by Gareth Roberts?

Yeah I was referring to the novelization

 

[poohcarrot]

Your turn author. :dance:

 

[poohcarrot]

As author isn't doing another one, I will. What book is this from? (quite easy) :dance:

"And Hell?" I asked.
"What about it?"
"Is there Hell?"
"Oh no," she replied. "That was just necerssary propaganda."
"I was wondering, you see. Because I met Hitler."
"Lots of people do. He's a sort of...tourist site, really. What did you make of him?"
"Oh, I didn't meet him," I said firmly. "He's a man I wouldn't shake the hand of. I watched him go by from behind the bushes."
"Ah, yes. Quite a lot of people prefer to do it that way."

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Can I use google to find what book it's from?

 

[poohcarrot]

You can try if you want. :dance:

I'll give clues about the author tomorrow if nobody's got it.

 

[poohcarrot]

The author has won the Man Booker prize, is a big footy fan and is adored in France.