muninnhuginn | Madness

Something needed doing to that list (we'd link to the Beeb's own site, but it's gone awol somehow). So we did.

The Copperfield Mandolin Farm Diary

"Guards! Guards! Katherine Matilda Ulysses, the Stone Magus, Lord of The Flies, Rebecca Mort, Lord of the Swallows and Amazons, and Harry Watership, the Hitchiker's Guide, war like Kane And Abel Potter in the time of cholera!"

"The-the-the twits!"

"Peace, Vicky Angel! Pride and prejudice love noughts and crosses."

"Cold comfort, Alice Emma Gormenghast."

"In the secret garden, the Magician, a suitable boy on the road, and BFG Middlemarch count one hundred years of solitude with the Great Gatsby and Tess of the D'urbervilles."

"Good Omens!"

"The ragged trousered philanthropists perfume the philosopher's chocolate factory in Bridget Jones's Wonderland."

"Watch! Far from the madding crowd, the brave new world of mice and men and nineteen eighty-four little women--the pillars of the earth--treasure a town Charlie David Brideshead revisited."

"His Dark Materials kill a mockingbird the colour of magic."

"The-the-the thorn birds double Artemis Fowl to farm rye."

"Stand down, Animal!"

"The Alchemist, Anne Of Green Gables, the prisoner of Azkaban, and the Godfather bear the story of Tracy Beaker, the goblet of fire, to the wuthering heights of the wardrobe-black galaxy."

"A tale, Jane Eyre, the woman in white, and Dune, the hobbit beauty, act for Alice's catcher, Owen Meany"

"The island clan of the cave lion adventures in the Magic Faraway Tree."

"Great expectations?"

"Girls potter."

"Midnight's children potter."

"The grapes of wrath potter. The chamber of secrets holes shell seekers."

"A geisha rings Winnie-the-Pooh."

"The-the-the wind, the-the-the wind in the willows: gone!"

"I capture the castle."

"Witch!"

"A princess."

"Diaries and memoirs, two cities of persuasion, house the secret history of Captain "Anna Karenina" Corelli's small bleak things."

"God!"

"Harry, Harry! Prayer, Harry, and a Christmas carol love birdsong."

"Punishment!"

"The Crime of Monte Cristo."

"Catch-22."

"Goodnight Mister Tom!"

"Night!"

100 points for doing all the titles in the list plus an extra point for each title used without being broken up: 162.

Of course, completing it without resorting to the stammer (or is that a stutter?) and people with invented titles would be far more convincing. As would recasting as many proper nouns as possible.

Oh dear, we suppose we ought to do the sf and fantasy lists as well.