For those who came in late, we celebrated our third birthday the other day, and since all good things come in threes, we’re giving away:
• THE JIGSAW MAN by Gord Rollo
• THE SEVEN SINS: THE TYRANT ASCENDING by Jon Land (autographed)
• GRAPHIC CLASSICS: SPECIAL EDITION (autographed by yours truly)
You simply had to answer 10 trivia questions that came from the new WHO THE HELL IS PANSY O’HARA? THE FASCINATING STORIES BEHIND 50 OF THE WORLD’S BEST-LOVE BOOKS. Despite the power of Google, roughly half of all entrants got all of them correct, and the randomly chosen winner is Mia Dalia of Philadelphia. For the record, the answers were …
1. FIRST IMPRESSIONS
2. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
3. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells
4. 20,000
5. Margaret Mitchell
6. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
7. Vladimir Nabokov
8. THE CAT IN THE HAT by Dr. Seuss
9. CARRIE by Stephen King
10. THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
… and the questions, in case you forgot, were …
1. What was the original name for Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE?
2. Which book and author caused Ernest Hemingway to declare, “It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
3. Which book led to a hoax that catapulted Orson Welles to fame?
4. How many subscribers canceled their subscription to THE STRAND after the story “The Final Problem” — the story in which Sherlock Holmes is killed — appeared?
5. Which author only decided to show her manuscript to an editor after a friend commented that she did not have what it takes to write a novel?
6. Which book caused effigies of the author to be burned by angry Californians who saw his work as a scandalous distortion of the migrant worker situation?
7. Which author once said, “I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don’t seem to name their daughters Lolita anymore. I have only heard young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but no human beings.”
8. Which American classic resulted from a challenge that restricted the author to use only 250 words chosen by literacy experts for their importance in a child’s vocabulary?
9. What book was saved by the author’s wife who fished the manuscript out of the trash, read it, and then convinced her husband to continue working on it?
10. Which book not only holds the title for the world’s bestselling copyrighted book, but also has the distinction of being the book that gets stolen the most from libraries?
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