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So this is a fun, bookish game Raven posted back in the days of yore (otherwise known as last year), which was the first thread I posted on. Basically, you take a book title, and rewrite it in the most complex way possible, without using any words in the original title. (Except for articles, conjunctions, pronouns, etc -- small words, like the, she, you, as. Oh, and proper nouns.) Person A posts a book title, person B complicates it and posts the next title, and so on and so forth, et cetera, et cetera.
ex:
The Near Witch = A Specific Person Who Works Magic and is Associated with a Place, Person, or Concept Named for a Synonym of Geographical Closeness
here's Raven's original thread -- http://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/inkwell/node/492235
The first title is The King of Elfland's Daughter. Have at it, lizards, if you've a mind to.
submitted by Artemis
(October 27, 2022 - 3:50 pm)
(October 27, 2022 - 3:50 pm)
Forge of Shadows: A Blacksmith's Shop Primarily Dedicated to the Creation of Projected Images Created by the Absence of Light in Conjunction to a Body or Object
Next book: Goodbye Stranger
It would be fun if we gave the complicated title and then people had to guess what book it was from
(November 10, 2022 - 8:13 pm)
Ooh, that would be fun! Shall I start a new thread for that?
(November 11, 2022 - 5:59 pm)
ooh yeah it would! you do that, Amethyst!
(November 12, 2022 - 1:44 pm)
Goodbye Stranger: Adieu, Adieu, Forever, Person Whom I Do Not Know
Next one: Little Women
(November 14, 2022 - 2:29 pm)
I like that one xD
Little Women: Very Small Adults Who Identify as Female
How about The Time of Green Magic?
(November 20, 2022 - 11:58 pm)
The Time of Green Magic: The Odd Thing That We Measure By Hours, Minutes and Days, Now Being In Some Way Associated With Spells, Witchcraft, Etc. That Is The Color Of Grass (I Don't Know In Which Way Because I've Never Even Heard Of The Book And I Am Just Capitalizing EVERYTHING!!!!!)
(November 21, 2022 - 3:00 pm)
And, I forgot: Next one is The Black Arrow.
(November 21, 2022 - 3:00 pm)
The Smallish Projectile Typically Fired From a Bow Colored The Hue That is the Opposite Of White
New book: The Return of the King
(November 23, 2022 - 5:32 pm)
A sharp, pointed instrument that is designed to be shot from a slim crescent of wood or plastic strung with a thin cord, and which happens to be a very, very dark colour that absorbs all or close to all of the light that hits it.
Next: Lord of the Rings
(November 23, 2022 - 6:02 pm)
In Which a Male Monarch Comes Again to a Place He Inhabited In Previous Times
A Being, Likely Male, Who Is In Charge of or Possesses a Noble Title Relating to A Number of Round Pieces of Jewelry of the Sort Which is Generally Worn on the Fingers
next: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(November 25, 2022 - 3:35 pm)
Something Coming Out of, i.e. Resulting In, Except Correlation is not Necessarily Causation in This Case, in Which a Confounded, Bewildered, Perplexed, and Muddled (Much as One Might Be Feeling During this Long and Drawn Out Written Soliloquy) Collection of Folders, Such as Would Often Be Placed in a Specific Type of Cabinet, Belong to a Particular Married Woman (Who is Addressed as Such, With No Higher Honorific Used in Place of That Status) Called an Herb of the Mint Family Often Used in Culinary Pursuits Followed by the Fifth Letter of the Alphabet as an Abbreviated Middle Name, Followed by a Last Name, Which, in Two Parts is the First Part of the Capitol of Kentucky, or the First Part of a Smoked Sausage Made From Beef or Pork (or a Common, Usually Male, Name) Followed by a Word That is German for a Village or Hamlet but is Also the Name of a Person Who Has Named a Gecko Endemic to the Cameroons (Who is Not Related in the Slightest to this Book's Character, Either the Gecko or the Namer of the Gecko).
Next title: Twilight of the Elves.
(December 4, 2022 - 1:06 pm)
This, my friend. This is art.
(December 4, 2022 - 10:08 pm)
:D It took a while...
(December 5, 2022 - 11:25 am)
Twilight of the Elves: The Dusky, Purplish Time of Day, Specifically In Conjunction with Magical Creatures Whose Defining Feature is Their Pointed Ears.
Someday I'm going to write a book and write its title in that format just to watch people be confused
Next: Castle Waiting
(December 6, 2022 - 9:41 pm)
Being a Large Dwelling of the Sort Occupied by Rich People in the Days of Yore, Commonly Envisioned as Being Made of Stone with Turrets and Portcullises and Gargoyles and Things, Which is Associated in an Unspecified Way with a Verb Meaning to Expect Someone to Return or Something to Happen
The Light in the Hidden Places
(December 10, 2022 - 1:34 pm)