UPDATE: The book’s Facebook fans are so quick they’ve won all five books already! Please stay tuned for more contests and giveaways. And thanks so much for joining in!
We’ve done it! We’ve counted down all 25 Random Things from the book in honor of its big debut today. The full list is below. And here’s the bonus: be one of the first five people to tell me what classics each of these things come from and win a signed copy of the book!
What to do:
–In an email message, number 1-25 (or just cut and paste this list).
–For each item, list the classic piece of literature that each “thing” comes from (so if the line is “Hamlet became a fan of daggers,” you’d write: Hamlet). Some of the things reference a famous author, in which case all you have to do is list their name. (ie, “William Faulkner will write status updates for money.” A: William Faulkner)
–Email the answers to 25thingscontest@gmail.com. The first five people to send me a correct list will win the book!
And now, the list:
1) Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don’t Float.
2) James Joyce Clapclap. Clipclap. Clappyclap. Big Benben. Fff! Oo!
3) Oedipus is working on his Family Tree.
4) Billy Pilgrim added Frozen European Creek Bed in World War II to his Places I Didn’t Plan on Visiting.
5) Holden Caulfield is editing the Education Info in his profile. Again.
6) Ernest Hemingway thanks you for pointing out his arm is bleeding, but he hasn’t had feeling there since 1933.
7) Puck replaced all of your photos with that sixth grade one where you have headgear and a perm.
8 ) King Lear’s Fool is not screaming and dancing wildly to be entertaining, it’s because Goneril scares the BEJEEZUS out of me, and this is how I cope.
9) Huck and Jim are now friends with The Duke and Dauphin through the People You’re Stuck with Because They’re on Your Raft tool.
10) Jack Kerouac will now write status updates to the rhythm of jazz.
11) Jane Eyre took the quiz: What Color Room Should You Not Be In? with the result “Red.”
12) Miss Havisham can stop time! BREAKTHEIRHEARTS!
13) Humbert is Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lo
14) Lydia Bennet was tagged in the album I’m in Brighton Looking at All the Very Cute Soldiers…Is Anyone Paying Attention?
15) Dr. Jekyll is not himself these days.
16) The Lilliputians sent Gulliver thousands of Itty-Bitty Pokes.
17) Estragon dedicated “Should I Stay or Should I Go” to Vladimir.
18) The Host: Howdy, pilgrims!…Can you spin a good yarn? Telle tales to shorte with oure weye? Enter the Canterbury Pilgrimage First Annual Storytelling Contest and win not only a FREE MEAL on us but the honor of having one of the only tales remembered by high school students around the world (Miller, Wife of Bath, I’m looking at you.)
19) Satan and Beelzebub are now fiends via the Fiend Finder.
20) Juliet OMG hooked up with random guy! Don’t even know his NAME.
21) Willy Loman took the What Kind of Fruit Are You? quiz, with the result “I am not a piece of fruit!”
22) Edgar Allan Poe received a ROFL Catz.
23) Hester Prynne is not enjoying her flair.
24) Ishmael changed his Education Info from “Harvard” to “At sea on ship of doom.”
25) Macbeth will act normal as soon as Dead Banquo gets out of my chair.
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