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Good, that narrows down the search significantly : amazon.co.uk lists just 12,029 books referring to 'spider', but 26,383 books referring to 'glass' (though amazingly it tells me 'Your search "the" did not match any products in: Books' :lol:!), so I'll start with the spider ones:

How about

"Bat Bones and Spider Stew" by Michelle Poploff ?

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:yikes: Although this scarily seems like the perfect guess, it's unfortunately not what I was thinking of.
Actually none of these ingredients really matter, they are just for decoration.
I hope this doesn't lead to more confusion. ;)

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The only thing I can think of without googling yet is "Along Came A Spider". I don't know if the glass is also just for decoration.:biggrin: I figured, you had to add in the spider, so that MUST be the MOST important thing. Hope I'm right :)

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maybe not, but it will lead to double, double toil and trouble.....
The only reason why I didn't really believe in my previous guess was that you said you had it in your own bookcase :lol:; otherwise, as you say, it was perfect!

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Sorry Dawn, the spider isn't important at all.
Only one of the items on the picture is essential for the title, the rest I just added to create a certain atmosphere, a supernatural and disturbing one because that's what the book is about, it's said to be a classic of the genre...

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So, over to the 26,000 glass books :):

"In a Glass Darkly", by Sheridan Le Fanu?

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26,000 glass books, and the first one you mentioned is right!
:arms: Congratulations! :arms:

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Oh, it was nothing: the other 25,999 just didn't seem quite the thing :biggrin:!

From my own bookcase this time:

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That would be "Through the Looking Glass", I assume?

Can it really be that easy? :thinking: I :heart: the Alice books since childhood, I think they were the first books I actually read alone.

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No, not that easy.....

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I knew there would be a drawback! :lol:
Actually I'm quite relieved I was wrong, so I don't need to make up a new one now...

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I can't quite make out what is in the mirror... I'm thinking that might be an important clue?

And I would have guessed "Through the looking glass" as well since the girl in the picture looks like Alice but apparently it wasn't so... :)

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Yes, it is important...

I didn't exactly say that....

I found a close-up of the mirror:

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Here's another far-fetched guess: "Imagined Cities:The Urban Mirror"(not even sure the second half is actually part of the book title or just the article where the book is written about-but it sounded good, so I thought might as well throw that in:biggrin:)

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Sorry, no...(but then you didn't really think so, did you :)? I do try to select a subject people are likely to have heard off :)!)

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Oh, dang it!:lol: but, I thought it was a good try, one never knows:biggrin: I thought the same as everyone else too at the beginning, she does looks like Alice :) Oh well, gotta go back to googling for the right title then:jossun:

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Travels with Alice (Calvin Trillin)
Alice in La-LA Land (R. Wright Campbell)
Although I have to say it looks more like

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Helanren, thanks for the bigger view of the mirror. So it's a city of some sort (or as andrew suggested)... here's my completely wild guess: is it Auster's "City of Glass"?

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No, no and no....(and it certainly isn't 'New Amsterdam' :lol:), but in fact, the actual place shown is irrelevant.

Maybe it'll help if I change the mirror and the overall image to look like this?

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P.S. I just saw on Wikipedia that the US publishers, for some weird reason of their own, decided originally to publish this book under another and much less intriguing name. So, allthough it can be found under its proper title on American booksites, you may actually have read it under another name (or, again if you happen to live in the US, seen the film (clue :)!) that was made of it under again another name, why can't they just let things be....?)

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A town called alice?
aka a town like alice
although that one doesn't seem to have a different name for the film version :thinking:

or Alice in den Städten

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Good enough, though you still seem to have some doubts...:).

The novel by Nevil Shute is called 'A town like Alice'; it was published in the U.S. as "The Legacy" (according to Wikipedia) and the 1956 movie was known in US cinemas (again according to Wikipedia) as "Rape of Malaya" (of all things...)

Your turn next :jossun:

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Gah. Life is too chockfull of craziness for me to do a picture right now. Anyone want my turn?
(ps/ Yay Nordino is up again!)

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I don't mind continuing, just finished the one on "Nord2" :lol:!

Another booktitle, though not high literature this time....:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...n/boekpict.jpg

Bonus points if you recognize the (2, possibly 3 :)) references in the image....

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:lol: I'm tempted to give it to you, never realized there were that many titles about catching a spy :lol:!

You are right though, Big Ben is a reference to London. As an extra clue: the booktitle is a single word. The book itself caused quite an uproar when first published.

You have gotten some bonus points already however: MAD's Spy of course and even Ellis Nadler (that was unintended: I just 'stole' an image of a guy with a butterflynet, but the artist's name wasn't given and I didn't recognize it, allthough it seemed a familiar style :biggrin:).

As for the image of the grass: also look at the building next to the Tower, and try to think about what you were doing this weekend...;)!

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Nope, it's not Spies...;).

The building + the grass was just a little bit of fun, it has no bearing on the booktitle, so don't get any nightmares about it :lol:!

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All bonus points gone now :)!

Since you have all the ingredients for the title already, it's difficult to giv another clue, but perhaps it will help if I tell you that the book was originally banned in the UK (allthough available everywhere else)?

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This is what I found on one word title books that are banned in the UK:

Spycatcher by Peter Wright(Autobiography) "Banned in UK 1985-1988 for revealing secrets. Wright was a former MI5 intelligence officer and his book was banned before it was even published in 1987." -- quoted from Wikipedia

Additional info can be found here: Spycatcher

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Yep, you've got it :)! Your turn again :jossun:

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BOOK

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Is it A Shot of Pink Martini?

I kinda hope I'm wrong. I don't know how to post a pic. I'm looking for directions on nord right now.

Edit: Ok I read the direction. Not hard at all :)

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nope, sorry... but wow, you did notice one of the subtle clues :wink: just that it's in a different context:biggrin:

pay attention to the middle image, that's probably the most important...

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I can't figure out what the image on the right is... but the one in the middle, that has something to do with Pink Floyd? Can't think of the significance with regards to the clue except when I googled more info on the logo I learnt that some hate groups use it as their insignias. :eek:

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Rightmost image is what the result would be from the first image. But ONLY if you do it so well, like the middle image suggests(nothing to do with pink floyd). So if you do it well enough, what is it called? Look at the middle image for the(clue) slang term of what it's called. Remember, it's a book and vlc has already noticed the "initram=Martini" hint. :winky:

Off topic a bit...well, kinda...

Anyways, I might have given too much of a clue, but I feel I have to, as I'm leaving on tuesday and won't be on to monitor it, so I'm hoping someone will have guessed by Sunday night(tomorrow), 11:00 PM Canadian central time at the latest. If worst comes to worst, I'll leave the answer to someone else and they can monitor this thread for me :biggrin:

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Good find! It's from the 1982 movie "Pink Floyd The Wall". There was this 'Hammer March' in the film, I'm not exactly sure where, but this video suggests it appears in the number "Outside The Wall":

Based on the gun and the martini (which looks 'shaken, not stirred' :)) on the right, I have been trying to find a James Bond title, but that doesn't work....

edit: hadn't seen Dawn's answer when I posted this, but with the extra clue I'll go for "Double Tap" by Steve Martini :).

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I have that book and with that... Double Tap by Steve MARTINI is correct! So, back to you Helanren.

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Would never have gotten the reference with the gun and "double" hammer (tap). :) I wasn't familiar with the term "double tap" (well except for the ones in my bathroom/kitchen :p). Good work, Helanren and a good pictionary clue, Dawn. :)

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I didn't know the term 'hammer', but I had heard of a 'double tap', so when that title came up in a book search, it seemed a good guess :lol:!

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