Writer's
Bloc
By Chris Morse
Each of these is a title of a famous work
of literature, with only the
first occurrence of each letter shown in the
string. The number
indexes the
full title and tells you the letter you want.
If you
order the books alphabetically by surname, you get the
following
message:
Bears, Cubs and Bulls location
Answer:
CHICAGO
Here is the sorted version of the list:
The
Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood - B
Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen -
E
The Martian Chronicles -- Ray Bradbury - A
A Clockwork Orange --
Anthony Burgess - R
Ten Little Indians -- Agatha Christie- S
Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K Dick - C
A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave Eggers - U
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott
Fitzgerald - B
The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Graham - S
The
Testament -- John Grisham - A
The Return of the Native -- Thomas Hardy -
N
The Portrait of a Lady -- Henry James - D
To Kill a Mockingbird --
Harper Lee - B
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers - U
How
the Other Half Lives -- Jacob Riis - L
Where the Wild Things Are --
Maurice Sendak - L
The Winter of Our Discontent -- John Steinbeck -
S
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson -
L
The Two Towers - J. R.R. Tolkien
- O
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole - C
The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - A
Rabbit at Rest -- John Updike -- T
The Sirens of Titan -- Kurt Vonnegut - I
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid
Test -- Tom Wolfe - O
A People's History of the United States -- Howard
Zinn - N