Statistically Improbable Meme
May. 30th, 2006 04:34 pmPick ten of your favorite books, look them up on Amazon.com, and find the list of Statistically Improbable Phrases for those novels. Pick a few SIPs from each book, list them here, and then have people guess what books they are. (Obviously, using Google or Amazon to figure it out is cheating.).
For your consideration:
1. clam beer, eternal rainbow, cloud wall
2. hundred piastres, retired baker, dear viscount
3. folding bedroom, old orrery, imaginary study
4. tormented writer, productive writer, gathering shadow [If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, identified by
missludmilla]
5. pirate city, haunted quarter, possibility mining [The Scar by China Mieville, identified by
alfvaen]
6. unicorn skull, chubby granddaughter, shuffled data [Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, identified by
abazureonna]
7. tangents paper, rarefying engine, cabinet noir
8. purring voice, little revolver
9. terrible island, zero winter, fabulous thing
10. pale suit, buffalo man, coin tricks [American Gods by Neil Gaiman, identified by
ronebofh]
Go get 'em.
For your consideration:
1. clam beer, eternal rainbow, cloud wall
2. hundred piastres, retired baker, dear viscount
3. folding bedroom, old orrery, imaginary study
4. tormented writer, productive writer, gathering shadow [If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, identified by
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
5. pirate city, haunted quarter, possibility mining [The Scar by China Mieville, identified by
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
6. unicorn skull, chubby granddaughter, shuffled data [Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, identified by
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
7. tangents paper, rarefying engine, cabinet noir
8. purring voice, little revolver
9. terrible island, zero winter, fabulous thing
10. pale suit, buffalo man, coin tricks [American Gods by Neil Gaiman, identified by
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Go get 'em.