Vanna Goes Out of Business - Part 5

We've moved this game over to "Playing Games and Solving Puzzles" as it seems a better fit.

Here's the rules of the game:

1. All entries must be the title of a fictional book.

2. Take the latest valid entry on the post. Determine which vowel was used the most frequently in that previous post.

3. If there is a tie in which vowel was used the most frequently, take the vowel whose first occurrance comes earliest in the entry title.

(For example, if the last entry was "Black Order" by James Rollins, since A, O, and E equally occur once, in that order, and no vowel occurs more than once, you take the A because the A comes first in the title).

4. For the sake of this game, a "Y" is always a consonant, even if it makes the sound of a vowel (like in the word "spy").

5. All entries must contain at least 1 vowel.

6. The vowel that you came up with in steps 2 and/or 3 is the vowel you are forbidden from using in the next entry. Note that you are only forbidden from using it in the title. The Author's name may contain the forbidden vowel.

Continuing from Roland's last entry:

The Adventures of Phillip by William M. Thackeray

E is the forbidden vowel

My entry:

Horns by Joe Hill

O is now the forbidden vowel

Light in August by William Faulkner
I

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

O

The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn

E

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

O

"Iranians" / The Persians / Persae
by Aeschylus

Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse

E

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

O

Le Ble qui leve / The Rising Wheat
by Rene Bazin
E

Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

I

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

E

Spin Control by Chis Moriarty

O

Far, Bright Star by Robert Olmstead

A

Boston by Upton Sinclair
O

We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson (my favorite Jackson story! Even better than The Bird's Nest)

E

The Birds by Daphne Dumaurier*

*also by Aristophanes

Someone To Love Me by Anne E. Schraff

O

Savage Lands by Clare Clark

A

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Paradise by Toni Morrison

A

Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
U

(My idea* of the frequency of
"forbidden for the next post" letters):
--from most to least frequent:

1. E 2. A 3. I 4. O 5. U

Iʻm more sure of 1st and 5th place than of the other 3.

*No, I havenʻt actually counted them; itʻs a surmise.

I think you're right Roland.

Birmingham Blitz by Annie Murray

I

On 23-24:

Thanks, DeltaQueen.

24 > 26

Zoroastre, Confucius et Mahomet
by Claude Emmanuel Pastoret

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

I

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

U

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

A

Eden by Olympia Vernon

E

The Dogs of war by Frederick Forsyth
O

March by Geraldine Brooks

A

Hermes the Thief by Norman O. Brown
E

Folly and Glory by Larry McMurty

O

The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell

E

Sun Storm by Asa Larsen

U

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State
Department by Dean Acheson
E

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

O

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

E

King John by William Shakespeare
I

That Mean Old Yesterday by Stacey Patton

A

The Towers of the Sunset by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

E

Mosquito by Roma Tearne

O

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

E

Vivid by Beverly Jenkins

I

Emma by Jane Austen
E

Trash by Dorothy Allison

A

Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

O

The Bully by Anne E. Schraff

E

Sahara by Clive Cussler

A

Pericles, Prince of Tyre
by William Shakespeare
E

Inca Gold by Clive Cussler

I

Wolves of Memory by Bill James

O

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

E

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

O

The King Must Die by Mary Renault

E

Days of Drums by Philip Shelby

A

The Penguin History of Europe
by J. M. Roberts

Church of Lies by Flora Jessop

U

Barabbas by Per Lagerkvist
A

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

I

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

U

All The Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

E

Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
I

Doctor No by Ian Fleming

O

The Magic of their Singing by Bernard Wolfe
I

Pendragon by Stephen R. Lawhead

E

Ajax by Sophocles
A

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

I

The Abysmal Brute by Jack London
E

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

I

The Storyteller of Marrakesh: A Novel by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

E

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre

A

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

E

Atilla by William Napier

A

Kim by Rudyard Kipling
I

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

E

Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Silver Dollar Girl by Katherine Ayres

I forgot to say A was the forbidden letter
of 84, and one did slip into 85 (5th let. 2nd word).

But still playing on 85, of which I is the forbidden letter:

Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
O

Oh no! I slipped up on #85 but will play off #86

Pitbulls in a Skirt by Mikal Malone

I

1930852::The Raw Shark Texts by hallsteven::Steven Hall

E

Blood Colony by Tananarive Due

O

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

E

Up To No Good by Carl Weber

O

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
E

Kalki by Gore Vidal

A

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

I

The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer

O

Blues In the Night by Rochelle Krich

E

Sin City by Frank Miller

I

Sharpe's Gold by Bernard Cornwell

A

Point COunter Pooint by Aldous Huxley

Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
O

The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver

E

Luna by Julie Anne Petera

U

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

E

I Think I 'm Having A Baby by Carol Hansen

I

The Grapes of Wrath by John Seinbeck

E

Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile

A

On, Off by Colleen McCullough

O

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
I

Sacrament by Clive Barker

A

Ulysses by James Joyce
U

Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite

O

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
A

Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder

I

Death Stalks Yellowhorse by Lewis B. Patten

E

China Road by Rob Gifford

I

As I remember from the Rules, A should be the forbidden letter of 117>118: it appears twice, and I and O only once each. The primacy of I is only for breaking a tie,
as E prevails in the following, where E, I, and O are tied.

Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
E

Nation by Terry Pratchett

A

#120: Ossian's Ride has the forbidden vowel.

120-121:

Sorry about the A in 120.

Changing it to:

The Poem of Empedocles by Empedocles*

*Not on my profile: favorite Authors List, but I did
include him "Ten Favorite (most interesting) historical figures list on another thread.

Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O'Dell

A

The End of the Drive by Louis L'Lamour

E

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

O

Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
U

Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson

I

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor

E

Marmion by Walter Scott
A

Running Girl by Sharon Bell Mathis

U

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall
E

Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley

I

A Fable by William Faulkner
A

Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith

I

Jenny Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser

Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser

A

The Cyclops by Euripides
O

Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser

A

Decision Points by George W. Bush
I

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

O

Aeneis / Aeneid by Virgil

E

Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser

A

Tempo di Occidere / The Short Cut
by Ennio Flaiano

E
(forbidden letter taken from the Italian title.

Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

O

The Mills of the Kavanaughs by Robert Lowell
A

Lincoln by Gore Vidal

I

Evergreen by Belva Plain

E

Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser

A

south of the border, west of the sun haruki murakami

O

Sharpe's Enemy by Bernard Cornwell

E

tortilla flat by john steinbeck

A

The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

O

deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut

E

Congo by Michael Crichton

O

Handyman gardener by David Stevens
A

the gum thief douglas coupland

U

A Theft by Saul Bellow
A

the outsider by albert camus

E

King John by William Shakespeare

a home at the end of the world by michael cunningham

E

Titus Andronicus
attributed to William Shakespeare (with co-authors?)
I

the end of mr. y by scarlett thomas

E

Fodorʻs South Pacific
O

Sharpe's Regiment by Bernard Cornwell

E

Acqua Alta by Donna Leon

A

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

E

Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray
A

The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney

U

Affinity by Sarah Waters

I

oxygen by andrew miller

O

The Shining by Stephen King

I

a moveable feast by ernest hemingway

A

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

O

landscape painted with tea by milorad pavic

A

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

I

i heard the owl call my name by margaret craven

E

Four Souls by Louise Erdrich

O

The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian

E

going out by scarlett thomas

O

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

A

The Seems by John Hulme

E

franziska by ernst weiss

A

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

O

The Perfect Date by R.L. Stine

E

jpod by douglas coupland

O

Welcome an.elena!

Seems I got my post in a few seconds ahead. :)

hello =)
nevermind, it happens =)

forbidden letter: O (188)

Black Bartlemyʻs Treasure
by Jeffrey Farnol
A

Just Like Mike by Gail Herman

I

cannery row by john steinbeck

A

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
O

After the War by Carol Matas

A

post office by charles bukowski

O

Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer

E

pop co by scarlett thomas

O

The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

E

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
A

no exit by jean paul sartre

O

Secret Admirer by R. L. Stine

E

north child by edith pattou

O

Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
A

how to be good b nick hornby

O

Geraldine Bradshaw by Calder Willingham
A

Finity's End by C.J. Cherryh.

I

La Chanson de Roland / The Song of Roland
Anonymous, attributed to Turoldus
A

October Light by John Gardner

O

Yeshua* Buddha by Jay Williams
U

*Yeshua: aka Isa, in Arabic; Jesus in Western languages

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A

Inside Europe by John Gunther
E

wasp factory by iain banks

A

BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey.

A

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

E

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
O

Belinda by Anne Rice

E

Truxton King; a Story of Graustark
by George Barr McCutcheon
O

Plastic Jesus by Poppy Z. Brite

A

Bliss by Zulfu Livaneli
I

The Lost World by Michael Crichton

O

Paradise Regained by John Milton
A

The Ghost Writer by John Harwood

E

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

O

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

E

Jason and Kyra by Dana Davidson

forbidden: A

Demosthenes on the Crown by Demosthenes
ed. by William W. Goodwin
E

No Holly For Miss Quinn by Miss Read

O

The Speeches of Aeschines
by Aeschines ed. and tr. by Charles Darwin Adams
E

Ghost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope Osborne

O

Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler

A

Forged By Fire by Sharon M. Draper

O

In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

A

Wicked Women by Fay Weldon

E

A Factory of Cunning by Phillipa Stockley

A

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

E

The Va DInci Cod (sic); (a parody)
by Adam Roberts

Omitting I

The Red Church by Scott Nicholson

E

Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite

I

the graveyard book by neil gaiman

E

Tai-Pan by James Clavell

A

Reconstructionist by Josephine Hart

O

Prime by Poppy Z. Brite

I

Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves
E

Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce.

O

hunger by knut hamsun

U

Mama Donʻt Allow
by Thatcher Hurd
A

Flying by Kate Millett

I

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

A

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

U

Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen

E

Diamond Dust by Peter Lovesey

I

The Falls: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates

E

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

I

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
O

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

E

Dusts Of Gods by C.L. Moore

O

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

A

Soulless by Gail Carriger

O

Castle In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones

E

Zami by Audrey Lorde

A

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
I

the glass books of the dream eaters by gordon dahlquist

E

Stoic, Christian, and Humanist
by Gilbert Murray
I

what is this all about? I'm a new member and am not sure what to do with anything i wanted to be able to comment on books and stuff but idk how? Can you help me?

Thnx!!!!!!!
jbeaulac

I LOVE J.K. ROWLING
Harry Potter books are amazing and the movies just ruin them...... I've read all but The Half-Blood Prince T...W...I...C...E!!!!!!

My Forbidden Vowel is............O............>=(

Welcome, jbeaulac!

The Forbidden vowel of #289 is I. The forbiddens are
listed under the title each time.

E turns out to be the most frequent NEXT :Forbidden vowel", whenever A, I, O, or U was the previous one.
U is the least frequent.

The current forbidden vowel I is because of the 3 I s
in the 1st, 2nd and 4th words of #269. In case of a
tie --say A, E, and I are all used 3 times, then whichever of tem was used FIRST is the next
"Forbidden Vowel".

the glass room by simon mawer

O

Lunar Park by Breat Easton Ellis

A

Weekend by Christopher Pike

E

factotum by charles bukowski

A

The Town by William Faulkner
E

cloud atlas by david mitchell

A

The Letters of Pliny the Younger
by Caius Plinius
E

complicity by iain banks

I

Less than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis

E

tropic of capricorn by henry miller

O

In Distant Fields by Charlotte Bingham

I

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
A

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

E

The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges

O

Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer

I

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

E

Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian

A

Mosquitoes by William Faulkner
O

Self-Made Man by Poppy Z. Brite

E

God Knows by Joseph Heller
O

Caesar by Colleen McCullough

A

Vine Lines by Judy Valon

I

The Hollow Ball by Sam Hanna Bell
O

Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris

A

Jeeves in the Offing by P. G. Wodehouse

E

Chourmo by Jean-Claude Izzo

O

Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris

I

The Ghosts of Cannae by Robert L. OʻConnell

Hannibal by Thomas Harris

A

( 299> 300 went all right, butI should have said O was the forbidden vowel.)

Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
O

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

E

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Deenie by Judy Blume

E

Pylon by William Faulkner
O

Dracula by Bram Stoker

A

Cold Dish by Craig Johnson

O

Sanctuary by William Faulkner
A

The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse

I

Flash For Freedom by George MacDonald Fraser

O

Club Dead by Chalaine Harris

U

The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer

E

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

A

Bloodbrothers by RIchard Price
O

Changes by Jim Butcher

A

Vol de Nuit / Night Flight
by Antoine de Saint Exupery
O (forbidden letter taken from the French title.)

The Iliad by Homer

I

A Fable by William Faulkner
A

The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein

O

The Sandman: The Wake by Neil Gaiman

E

A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson

E

Bat 6 by Virginia EUwer Wolff

A

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

O

Whirligig by Paul Fleischchman

I

The Crazy School by Cornelia Read

O

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
I

The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence

E

Rapscallion by James McGee

A

The Mysterious Mr. Quinn by Agatha Christie

E

Malcolm X By Arnold Adoff

A

on the road by jack kerouac

O

The Yale Gerturde Stein by Gertrude Stein
E

Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry

O

ok thnx >rolandperkins

The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas

Forbidden Vowel:A

Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid

E

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

A

four letters of love by niall williams

O

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
A

Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke

E

going out by scarlett thomas

O

Singularity by William Sleator

I

Black Coffee by Agatha Christie

E

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

A

The Birthday King by Gabriel Fielding

omitting I....

The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth

E

King Richard the Third by William Shakespeare
I

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