Name That Book!

[Sjoerd3000]

Did this author win the Booker prize in 2011? For the novel The Sense of an Ending?

 

[poohcarrot]

He did. But that's not the book.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I know, it's the history of the world in 10 and a half chapters or something like that

 

[poohcarrot]

Bingo! :clap:

 

[Sjoerd3000]

:dance:

“I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to your last. My speeches in no way resemble verbal muck, as you have been pleased to put it in the presence of a lady, but rather a sequence of tightly packed syllogisms, the merit of which would be appreciated by such connoisseurs as Sextus Empiricus, Martianus Capella, and, for all I know, Aristotle himself.'

Your king is in check,' said Woland.

Very well, very well,' responded the cat, and he began studying the chessboard through his opera glasses.

And so, donna,' Woland addressed Margarita, 'I present to you my retinue. This one who is playing the fool is the cat Behemoth...”

 

[poohcarrot]

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

The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov?

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Bingo!

 

[poohcarrot]

The polls, then, suggest that at least 40% of Americans are creationists - that's dyed-in-the-wool, out-and-out, anti-evolution creationists, not believers in 'evolution but God sort of helped it along' (there were plenty of them too). The equivalent figures for Britain, and much of Europe, are slightly less extreme, but not much more encouraging. There are still no grounds for complacency.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Richard Dawkins? :think:

 

[poohcarrot]

I'm pretty sure that in this game you're supposed to say the book, not the author.

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Is it from a Richard Dawkins book?

 

[poohcarrot]

It could very well be from a Richard Dawkins book, but which one? :dance:

 

[Sjoerd3000]

I'm not sure :think: I think either the God Delusion or The Greatest show on Earth?

 

[poohcarrot]

You can't choose two books.

Make an educated guess which one. :dance:

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Is is the God Delusion?

 

[poohcarrot]

Nope!

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Is it the greatest show on earth?

 

[poohcarrot]

Dat's der bub-bun! :dance:

 

[Sjoerd3000]

:dance: :dance:

ok here's a new one

“Standing at the window, reading the menu of Obediah's services, the Minotaur wishes he could believe in what she has to offer: a promise woven into deep lines of his palm, some turn of fate told by a card. But faith is a nebulous thing and charlatans a dime a dozen; it's always been that way. The Minotaur both envies and pities the devout.”

 

[poohcarrot]

I have absolulutely no idea. :dance: