LibriVox

[ExEmGe]

In case anyone is interested, here
http://www.timberdine.co.uk/Files/new_year_quiz_2009.mp3
is a totally unsolicited, unauthorised (and possibly unwanted!) new year quiz. 20 extracts from well known books taken from the Librivox catalogue. Can you identify the author and the book? (approx 36 mins total)
If you prefer the written version it's at
http://www.timberdine.co.uk/Files/new_year_quiz_2009.doc
or
http://www.timberdine.co.uk/Files/new_year_quiz_2009.rtf
Post your answers here or PM me by twelfth night and I'll put the definitive list up on the 6th.
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Regards
Andy Minter

[lezer]

What a fun idea! Thank you, Andy.

[earthcalling]

That's wonderful, Andy! What a pleasure to listen to...

I won't divulge how many I knew, but anyone who gets more than four is a better man than me!

David

[libraryanne]

I know five, Somehow I feel I should know more. I'll be waiting for the answers.

[Kikisaulite]

I also recognized five and am very intrigued to know some of the others. They look like interesting pieces to listen.
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Keep your mind here and now, where it belongs.

[Illiterati]

Haa!

Five seems to be the number everybody thinks they know; me as well. I thought this was so few that I was too ashamed to answer.

I believe my lack of knowledge of the works of certain 19th century female writers is to blame....
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Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen + wiki!

[Kikisaulite]

[chocoholic]

OK, I read Andy's doc instead of listening, which might have helped. I came up with answers for 12. Two of these I absolutely positively know because I recorded them, 6 more I am 98-100% sure of (which doesn't mean I am right), one is about a 50% certainty, and three others are wild stabs in the dark. So I probably have 8.

And I also have a list of about 5 or 6 that I now want to read based on the excerpts, once Andy tells us what they are.

Fun!

edited to add: Turns out I am not a bad guesser. 8 totally right, plus 1 where I knew the book but couldn't remember the author's name, plus two more with a correct guess at the author though I didn't know exactly which book it was. So I got 8 and 3 halves... 9.5.
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Laurie Anne

[gypsygirl]

[Starlite]

I got 5. 2 of which I am not certain about. I read first then listened. The listening brought one more to my list because I knew what the reader had read.

Esther
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“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller

[miss stav]

I surtenly know 5, about another 1 I am not too sure.
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"I'm always thinking of you when I'm writing, even if it is not the kind of thing that you'll know of", Virginia Woolf.
Let us meet in New Grub Street.

[ExEmGe]

Thanks and congratulations to all who took part!
It was just for fun of course rather than a competition but nevertheless the reply with the most points (27) at 1 point per author and one per title was (in lights!)

anne21


Here are the answers:
Ref...Author................................Work................................................Reader
1.....Charlotte Bronte................Jane Eyre........................................Anne-Marie Williams
2......G.K. Chesterton................The Innocence Of Father Brown....Brian Roberg
3......George Elliott....................Middlemarch...................................Daniel Harris
4......Benjamin Franklin............Autobiography.................................Gary Gilberd
5......J.M.Falkner.......................Moonfleet.........................................Graham Redman
6......Nathaniel Hawthorne.......The Scarlet Letter...........................J R W MacDonald
7......Frank Baum......................The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.........J. Hall
8......Rider Haggard..................King Solomon's Mines..................John Nicholson
9......Lewis Carroll....................Alice in Wonderland........................Kristen McQuillin
10....Dumas..............................The Count of MonteCristo.............Kristin LeMoine
11....ZaneGrey..........................Riders of the Purple Sage............Laurie Anne Walden
12....Conan Doyle....................A Study in Scarlet...........................Laurie Anne Walden
13....Thomas Hardy.................Far From the Madding Crowd.......Lee Ann Howlett
14....Sigmund Freud................Dream Psychology.........................M L Cohen
15....J.M. Barrie........................Peter Pan........................................Meredith Hughes
16....Jane Austen.....................Sense & Sensibility........................Michelle Crandall
17....Charles Dickens...............David Copperfield ....................Muhammad Mussnoon
18....Mrs Gaskell......................Cranford........................................Sibella Denton
19....Daisy Ashford..................The Young Visiters........................Tysto
20....John Galsworthy..............The Man of Property......................Walter Plinge
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Regards
Andy Minter

[Starlite]

YEAH All 5 of the ones I thought of were right!

The Zane Grey one was familiar due to the writing style of the author but I didn't guess it.

Esther
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“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller

[chocoholic]

Woo! Go anne21!
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Laurie Anne

[miss stav]

I knew more than I thought... All 5 were true, and I knew more- just wasn't too sure... Well, that was fun.
Stav.
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"I'm always thinking of you when I'm writing, even if it is not the kind of thing that you'll know of", Virginia Woolf.
Let us meet in New Grub Street.