Vanna Goes out of Business Part 9

(Continuing from #900 of
"Vanna Goes out of Business Part 8)

Trying to move this thread
onto "All Topics", and/or
"Hot Topics".

I just noticed today that
"Part 8" is still the
most recently played on.

(I don't know how to make llinks.)

OK, the last post was:

4859. The Island Within, by Ludwig Lewisohn (read 10 Sep 2011)

Vowel to avoid is I

But I am not supposed to play on my own post so somebody else should play on it.

Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
O

1434. Give Us This Day, by R. F. Delderfield (read 24 Feb 1977)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: I

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
O

Midnight Runner by Jack Higgins

I

The Man who was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
A

4428. October Light, by John Gardner (read 18 Apr 2008) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1976)

Vowel to avoid: O

Ice Palace by Edna Ferber
E

1441. Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert translated by J. C. Chartres (read 29 Mar 1977)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: A

World so Wide
by Sinclair Lewis

avoiding O

289. Hatter's Castle, by A. J. Cronin (read 19 Oct 1946)

Vowel to avoided in a fictional title: A

Choctaw by Donald Porter
O

555. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (read 21 Sept. 1958) (Book of the Year) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1947)

Vowel to avoid: E

Nothing to Pay by Caradoc Evans
O

733. Adam Bede, by George Eliot (read 20 May 1963)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Domino Men by Jonathan Barnes

Vowel to avoid: E

Sanditon by Jane Austen
A

The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory

E

Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
O

Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley

E

omitting A.........

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

I

Roland, I haven't read #23 and I presume you have. Is it fiction?

Playing on #24:

798. New Grub Street A Novel by George Gissing (read Feb or Mar 1965)

Vowel to av in a fictional title: E

On 23>26

No, sorry; it isnʻt fiction. It was one of the longest E-less titles Iʻve seen, and that fired me up to post it -- and burned the "Fiction Only" rule out of my mind.

Impostors by George V. Higgins
O

4924. Private Screening, by Richard North Patterson (read 23 May 2012)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Too Many Cooks
by Rex Stout

Avoiding O

2372. The Tin Can Tree, by Anne Tyler (read 24 Mar 1991)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Tin Cup by Ron Shelton
I

2681. Burmese Days A novel by George Orwell (read 27 Nov 1994)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Animal Farm by George Orwell
A

4835. Ripley Under Ground, by Patricia Highsmith (read 21 Jun 2011)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Night Hawk by Beverly Jenkins

I

299. The Moonstone A Novel, by Wilkie Collins (read 9 Dec 1946)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

A Catskill Eagle
by Robert B. Parker
A

Ghost Hotel by Larry Weinberg

O

Hugger Mugger
by Robert B. Parker
U

1814. A Division of the Spoils a Novel by Paul Scott (read 27 Nov 1983)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

The Judas Goat
by Robert B. Parker
A

3769. The King of Torts, by John Grisham (read 16 Jul 2003)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger

E

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
A

609. In My End Is My Beginning, by Maurice Baring (read 21 Feb 1960)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Black Bartlemy's Treasure*
by Jeffrey Farnol
E

*Read ca. 1942

Roland, there are three E's but there are also three A's and the first A comes before the first E so I am avoiding A, not E.

561. The Trees, by Conrad Richter (read 11 Nov 1958)

Now, the vowel to avoid is E

"There are also three A's (in (47)..."

Right. I of all people shouldn't have missed the A in "treasure". (As a hater of
"E is the NFL" (next forbidden letter), I remember reluctantly making it the NFL through my miscount.)

// -E //

Satyricon by Petronius
A

3226. The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter (read 4 Aug 1999)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Aulularia by Plautus
U

502. Marjorie Morningstar A Novel by Herman Wouk (read 10 Aug 1956)

Vowel to avoid in A ficTional title: A

Inside Out by Barry Eisler

Avoid: I

The Wave by Walter Mosley

E

Christ our Captain: an Introduction to Huldrych Zwingli by Jim West
I

Roland, everything I can find about the book you posted indicates to me it is not fiction so I am playing on #55 and avoiding E:

105. By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson (read fall of 1942)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: A

Right. 56 is not fiction; I was lured lnto the non-fiction realm by the extended (8words!) E-lessness of West's Christ our Captain. . .

Bound By Moonlight by Angela Weaver

O

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
E

94. Strong Arm of Avalon by Mary T. Waggaman (read in 1942)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Junky by William Burroughs
U

Where Is Polka Dots? by Samantha Berger

O

Vowel to avoid is E - two appeared before the two O's

Right, Linsleo:

1441. Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert translated by J. C. Chartres (read 29 Mar 1977)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Thanks! I was getting sleepy.

Deenie by Judy Blume

E

Cold Harbour
by Jack Higgins
O

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton

I

3540. Prayer at Rumayla A Novel of the Gulf War, by Charles Sheehan-Miles (read 14 Feb 2002)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Bronxwood by Coe Booth

O

Manhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
A

Tyrell by Coe Booth

E

Ajax* by Sophocles
tr. by Paul Roche,
Roland F. Perkins et al.
A

*Greek title: Aias
Fictional drama, although based on partly-true legend.

Oedipus the King by Sophocles

E

2872. Simon's Night, by Jon Hassler (read 27 May 1996)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Charlotte's Web by E. B. Whire

E

3166. Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott (read 26 Feb 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1998)

Vowel to avoid: I

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

E

Titus Andronicus
attributed to William Shakespeare (with others?)
I

4051. A Thread of Grace A Novel by Mary Doria Russell (read 1 Aug 2005)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

O

Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis
A

3388. The Promise, by Chaim Potok (read 9 Jan 2001)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

I

The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
E

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

O

Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
A

403. Scott-King's Modern Europe, by Evelyn Waugh (read 2 Jan 1952)

forbidden letter (from 89): E

Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James
A

Eleven by Lauren Myracle

E

862. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play, by Edward Albee (read 26 Jul 1966)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

E

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
O

Eleven by Lauren Myracle

Rumour at Nightfall
by Graham Greene
U* or A

U is the next forbidden if the British spelling of Rumor/Rumour is used, but I cant guarantee that it is
because I've never see a copy of this book. It was one of 2 that Greene did not want to be included in his Collected Works. (The other was The Name of Action.)
So, I would allow A on the possibility that
(U.S. spelling) the A s outnumbered the U s 2-1.

The Wikipedia article entitled "Graham Greene bibliography" shows a copy of the cover of the book and it has the word spelled the British way so I am avoiding U-- which is so easy to do.

3244. A Frolic of His Own A Novel by William Gaddis (read 16 Sep 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1994)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

????

On 98: "????"

As Gertrude Stein is said to have said: "(Never mind the ANSWER: What is the QUESTION?"

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

I

1548. War and Remembrance A novel by Herman Wouk (read 8 Jan 1980)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Roland, wrong game!

"Meeting Time"
by John D. Weaver
E

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

U

Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt

O

983. The Reivers A Reminiscence, by William Faulkner (read 30 Nov 1968) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1963)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Blood Lust by J. M. Jeffries

O

The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
A

Demon Chick by Marilyn Kaye

E

Guard of Honor
by James Gould Cozzens
O

Diablerie by Walter Mosley

I

2992. The Source a novel by James A. Michener (read 2 Jul 1997)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Lockdown by Walter Dean myers

O

538. The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (read 2 May 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1924)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Crystal by Walter Dean Myers

A

Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck
O

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

E

2386. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (read 27 May 1991) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)

Vowel to avoid: I

Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve

E

Rabbit Run
by John Updike
A

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

I

Boy Tar by Mayne Reid
O

Crank by Ellen Howard

A

The Boomerang Clue
by Agatha Christie
E

2896. World's Fair, by E. L. Doctorow (read 13 Aug 1996) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1986)

Vowel to avoid: O

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
E

706. Antic Hay, by Aldous Huxley (read 25 Aug 1962)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Crome Yellow
by Aldous Huxley
O

4016. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (read 26 Apr 2005) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 2005) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 2004)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Blubber by Judy Blume

U

1811. The Jewel in the Crown a novel by Paul Scott (read 20 Nov 1983)

Vowel to avoid: E

Virgin Soil
by Ivan Turgenev
I

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

E

Fish by Monroe Engel

Tumbling by Diane McKinney Whetstone

U

Marjorie Morningstar
by Herman Wouk
A

Slob by Ellen Potter

O

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
A

#137, Jacqueline, does not avoid I but #139 does so I am playing on #140:

4726. Wild Fire, by Nelson DeMille (read 12 Jul 2010)

Thanks for catching that!

The Ancestors by Brandon Massey

E

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

A

Theophilus North
by Thornton Wilder
O

326. Black Mischief, by Evelyn Waugh (read 27 Apr 1947)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

O

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

A

Red Lotus by Pai Kit Fai

E

Skippy by Percy Crosby
I

Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

A

I go Pogo by Walt Kelley
O

2832. Decider, by Dick Francis (read 5 Feb 1996)

Vowel to avoid: E

Bluish by Virginia Hamilton

U

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman

I

The Good House by Tananarive Due

O

The Good House by Tananarive Due

O

The Blessing by Nancy Mitford

E

Bayou by Jeremy Love

A

Ulysses by James Joyce
U

2158. The Story of an African Farm A Novel by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner) (read 19 Aug 1988)

Vowel to avoid: A

Lo Mejor de Montenegro/ The Best of Montenegro*
(no author given)
O

*An English version is not guaranteed.
Next Forbidden Letter taken
from the SPanish title.

Trash by Sharon Darrow

A

Victories by George V. Higgins
I

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

E

Light on a Mountain
by Gerald Warner Brace
I

652. The Blackboard Jungle a novel by Evan Hunter (read 13 May 1961)

Vowel to avoid ina fictional title: E

Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

O

Ann Vickers by Sinclair Lewis
A

Beloved by Toni Morrison

E

An Irish Country Doctor
by Patrick Taylor
O

Fat vampire by Adam Rex

A

Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
I

Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes

O

3159. Mariette in Ecstasy, by Ron Hansen (read 14 Feb 1999)

Vowel to avoid: E

Boy Shopping by Nia Stephens

O

Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally
I

2661. The Lost Traveller A Novel by Antonia White (read 9 Oct 1994)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Mama Ruby by Mary Monroe

A

1762. In This House of Brede, by Rumer Godden (read 28 Jan 1983)

Vowel to avoid: E

Oh, Johnny by Jim Lehrer

O

Bethel Merriday
by Sinclair Lewis
E

At Last by Lisa G. Riley

A

346.The White Tower, by James Ramsey Ullman (read 25 Aug 1948)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: E

Sula by Toni Morrison

U

Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
E

1362. Romola, by George Eliot (read 25 Oct 1975)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Silas Marner by George Eliot
A

French Pressed by Cleo Coyle

vowel to avoid: E

Sold by Patricia McCormick

O

Cass Timberlane
by Sinclair Lewis
A

29. The Heiress of Edgremont by Mrs. Harriet Lewis (read in 1939)

Vowel to avoid: E

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

i believe 84 counts as a word eighty four...... therefore not eligible.

#192 fiction? The Sioux City Library classifies it as non-fiction.

So, I can't play on #191, cause that's me.

Sorry about that.... playing off of #191

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Vowel to avoid: A

All Fall Down
by James Leo Herlihy

playing off of #195 because 196 has 2 A's.........

Tuff by Paul Beatty

U

Sorry, 196 was mistakenly played by the rules of another game: . . ."Fall" > "... "Fall"

Playing on #196:

3244. A Frolic of His Own A Novel by William Gaddis (read 16 Sep 1999) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1994)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Ice Palace by Edna Ferber
E

137. Lost Horizon, by James Hilton (read 13 Jan 1944)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Giant by Edna Ferber
I

Sounder by William H. Armstrong

O

The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
E

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

I

Lovers and Cohorts
by Herbert Gold
O

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

E

Cimarron by Edna Ferber
I

3353. Mayday A Novel, by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block (read 24 Sep 2000)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

O

The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
E

Nothing But Drama by Reshonda Tate Billingsley

A

The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser
E

Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

A

1985. Legs, by William Kennedy (read 7 Mar 1986)

Vowel to avoid: E

On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle

forbidden letter: O

The Caine Mutiny
by Herman Wouk
E

Bunnicula by James Howe

U

1045. A Separate Peace A Novel, by John Knowles (read 14 Mar 1970)

Vowel to avoid: A

Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth
O

Twelve by Lauren Myracle

E

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Avoid: A

545. The Store by T. S. Stribling (read 14 June 1958) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1933)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Nothing to Pay by Caradoc Evans
O

523. Anna Karenina, by Count Leo Tolstoy translated by Constance Garnett (read 24 Oct 1957)

Vowel to avoid: A

The Embezzlers
by Valentin Kataev
E

1808. Animal Farm, by George Orwell (read 11 Nov 1983)

Vowel to avoid: A

The History of Pendennis by William M. Thackeray
E

Go, Dog ,Go! by P. D. Eastman

O

It Canʻt Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
E

1075. A Lost Lady, by Willa Cather (read 13 Sep 1970)

Vowel to avoid: A

Lady L by Romain Gary

Wrong game, Roland.

"Wrong game . . ."

Yes. Sorry.

forbidden vowel: A

Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis
O

4260. Pied Piper, by Nevil Shute (read 17 Jan 2007)

Vowel to avoid: I

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A

Othello by William Shakespeare
O

4993. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich (read 21 Jan 2013)

Well, at least I know I've never used this title before.

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Fontamara by Ignazio Silone
A

Bliss by Lauren Myracle

I

The Secret of Luca*
by Ignazio Silone
E

*Also translated as: Lucaʻs Secret. E becomes the next forbidden letter, in either case.

In My Room by Ron Bacon

O

The Man in my Basement
by Walter Mosely
E

350.A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh (read 30 Oct 1948)

If I have used this previously in this thread I will change it.

Vowel to avoid: A

Miss Suzy by Miriam Young

I

Mosses from an Old Manse
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
O

3325. Kate Vaiden, by Reynolds Price (read 4 Jul 2000) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1986)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

"A Rill from the Town Pump" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
O

2380. Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean (read 3 May 1991)

Vowel to avoid: E

Wrong game, Roland,

Argonautica
by Apollonius of Rhodes
A

265. Sons, by Pearl S. Buck (read 25 June 1946)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Bethel Merriday by Sinclair Lewis
E

1471. Trinity, by Leon Uris (read 21 Dec 1977)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson

E

Wolf Hall- Hilary Mantel

Avoid: L

Avoiding O

2141. Bel-Ami, by Guy De Maupassant translated by Douglas Parmee (read 7 Apr 1988)

Vowel to be avoided: E

Night by Eli Wiesel

Vowel to avoid: I

Twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
E

651. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (read 8 May 1961) (Pulitzer Fiction prize in 1961)

While this title has been the subject of over 1000 'conversations'here on LibraryThing, it does not appear to have been used in this Part 9.

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
E

1120. Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter (read 17 Jul 1971)

Vowel to avoid in ficetional title: O

The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
E

Roland, your entry does NOT avoid O!

265>267

Sorry, yes I passed right over the o of "mayor" while disgruntledly* counting the Eʻs.

*I like to avoid the forbidden vowel AND
avoid E at the same time, if possible.

Mrs. Big by Maryann Reid

I

Salemʻs Lot
by Stephen King
A

Sucks to be Me by Kimberly Pauley

E

Harry Truman and Civil Rights by Michael Gardner
A

Hellboy Odder Jobs by Frank Darabont

E

Roland, I don't think #273 is fiction. Playing on #272 and on #274:

1022. Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak translated from the Russian by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (read 15 Sep 1969)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Party Girl by Lynne Ewing

A

Lincoln by Gore Vidal
I
(this one is* fiction, despite the historical-sounding title,
and despite its being based on Vidalʻs idea of the realities.)

*Yes, youʻre right, Schmerguls, that Gardnerʻs
Harry Truman. . .is not fiction. I was again hung up
on the delightul E-lessness of the title. A strange thing about the Gardner title is that clicking on it leads to an edition of Blackʻs Law Dictionary which Touchstones attributes to a Bryan GARNER.

Beeperless Remote by Van Whitfield

E

1554. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (read 10 Mar 1980)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Losers Volume 02 Double Down by Andy Diggle

U

There's A Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar

O

The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
E

Jacqueline, I see three e's and three o's in #282 and the first e is before the first o, so it seems to me the vowel to be avoided in #282 is E, not O. And in

#281 there are four O's and only two U's so I do not see how the vowelf to be avoided is U.

So I am playing on #281 and avoiding O:

4924. Private Screening, by Richard North Patterson (read 23 May 2012)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: E

Schmerguls; in 280 you said to avoid A which i did,

The Losers Volume 02 Double Down

I left a U, which jacqueline followed with

There's A Boy In The Girl's Bathroom

Jacqueline left an O, which roland followed .........

Hapthorne, you are right that in #281 you avoided A but there are four O's in your 281 which means that O, not U, should be avoided. In #284 I avoided O, because in neither #282 nor in #283 was O avoided.

Ah i get it now, the rules are somewhere in the mists of time...but I understand now, sorry for the confusion

Playing on 284

Forbidden vowel: E

Titus Andronicus
by William Shakespeare
(and others?)

Avoiding I

3353. Mayday A Novel, by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block (read 24 Sep 2000)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
by William Shakespeare
E

3751. Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott (read 4 June 2003)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: O

Murder Makes Waves by Anne George

vowel to avoid: A

Anatomy of a Murder
by Robert Traver

In #292 there are three e's and only two a's so the vowel to avoid in #292 is e, not a. Accordingly, avoiding e:

233. Quo Vadis? by H. Sienkiewicz (read 30 Jan 1946)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: U

Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz
A

2118. The Ugly Duchess, by Leon Feuchtwanger translated by Willa and Edwin Muir (read 10 Jan 1988)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: E

Group Portrait with Lady
by Heinrich Boll

avoiding O

4203. Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens (read 30 Aug 2006)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

My career goes bung by Miles Franklin

Vowel to avoid: E

3290. Waiting, by Ha Jin (read 30 Jan 2000) (National Book Award fiction prize in 1999) (PEN/Faulkner winner for 2000)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

The Gloucester Branch
by John Leggett
E

4338. Giant, by Edna Ferber (read 11 July 2007)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: I

Couples by John Updike
O

476. War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (read 28 Mar 1955)

Vowel to avoid: A

Liliom by Ferenc Molnar
I

4202. March A Novel, by Geraldine Brooks (read 24 Aug 2006) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 2006)

Vowel to avoid in a fictional title: A

The Building of Venus Four
by Calder Willingham

The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn

Vowel to avoid: I

End as a Man by Calder Willingham
A

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Avoid: I

In #308 the vowel to be avoided is E, not I Accordingly, playing on #308:

2386. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (read 27 May 1991) (Pulitzer fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Award fiction prize for 1982) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1981)

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: I

To Eat a Peach
by Calder Willingham
A

The Hour by Bernard DeVoto

Avoid: O

New Rule: Avoid a "vowel"- a,e,i,o,u and another one of the other 21 alphabets by stating a "vowel" and another alphabet to make the game more challenging. Concensus: Do you agree for the next new game?

. . .to make the game more challenging" (313)

I agree, because under the existing rules, the frequency of E as the next "Forbidden Letter" makes it difficult and somewhat boring.* All titles with an English definite article in them, for example,
are ruled out in trying for an E-less post. Thatʻs something of a challenge, in itself, but not, to my mind, an interesting one.

*Your "Avoid O"(313) , b t w, does not follow the existing rules. (A tie among e, o and u, with the E in first place, makes E the next forbidden letter.)
I donʻt remember the start of the "Vanna. . ." thread clearly, but I seem to conect you with it. Are you the founder and original rule-maker of this game?

I am not an original creator of this game.

"not an original creator"
(314--315)
-- O K ,. thanks.

bookwoman247 is the original creator.

Thanks, skoobdo;

and thanks, Bookwoman247 for
creating the game.

Bookwoman247, any comments on changing the rules of the game?

We'll see if Bookwoman 247 answers. Would the new rule be "avoid the vowel per the present rules and also avoid the non-vowel which is the most used in the title, using the same rule as to the consonant as exists for the vowel? I don't know how that would work but we should require the consonant to be picked per a system rather than just at random, not?i

Playing on #313 and avoiiding E:

120. Bambi, by Felix Salten (read 1943)

When I read this I did not yet show the translater, but I presume it was Whitaker Chambers.

Vowel to be avoided in a fictional title: A

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
O

King Lear-William Shakespeare

Avoid: E

Neither #321 nor #322 avoids A, as required by #320, so the next entry should avoid A

"Neither 321 nor 322 avoids A. . ." (321-323)

Sorry. You donʻt have to be a "wizArd" (321) to slip a forbidden vowel past me.

// forbidden letter A //:

Othello by William Shakespeare
O

Which witch? by Eva Ibbotson
I

Summer by Edith Wharton
U

One Fine Day - Nonny Hogrogian

Avoid: E