Last week I posted fifteen AI-generated images created by prompts inspired by books. Davida Chazan of the Chocolate Lady’s Book Blog won with nine correct guesses!
(1) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Pretty much everyone got this one.
“You do have a singular talent for it, sir..”
(2) Any Jeeves & Wooster story. Props to Cyberkitten, who alone guessed this one! There’s no story about Bertie falling into a well: the general idea in the picture is that a butler is helping his young ward out of a problem he’s got himself into!
(3) Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Herman Melville. This one was so obvious. I should have done something like a man shooting his heart on a harpoon or something. Everybody got it.
(4) Lord of the Flies. The conch may have been overkill. Everyone got it.
(5) A Thousand and One Tales / Arabian Nights, etc. I asked Bing for a medieval Persian couple sitting in a richly appointed room, with the woman being very animated telling stories. I asked for pictures above her head drawn from stories, like dragons and castles. I was thinking of the way The Sims 4 depicts kids or adults using their imagination, but Bing went a different direction. Pretty much everyone got this one as well.
(6) Gone with the Wind, which again, most everyone got.
(7) The Canterbury Tales! I asked for a group of medieval people, ranging from peasants to nuns to knights, walking together through a rural countryside of wheat and cattle. They were supposed to be talking and listening to one another. Bing supplied….a lot of cows.
(8) John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. A little abstract, but I asked for a Mexican fisherman having his home destroyed by a big black sphere. (I wasn’t getting good results with pearl.) The best guess for this one came from Marian, who had Steinbeck vibes.
Magic Pearl: OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD
(9) The Time Machine, H.G. Wells. A bit misleading in that The Traveler went forward, not back in time, but I’d hoped the steampunk “time machine” and the nattily dressed Traveler would do the trick.
(10) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. I asked for a revolutionary war soldier (“Yankee”) standing in a medieval courtyard in front of a king and wizard, and pointing at a sun in eclipse. In Twain’s novel, the the Yankee’s knowledge of eclipse dates allowed him to escape being executed.
(11) The Odyessey. Odysseus, still in his disguise, is confronting Penelope. In the story, she mentions his bed being removed and he declares that impossible because the bedpost was a living tree trunk — hence the important detail of the tree limbs.
(12) Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Key details: sad woman in white dress reading a book with coffee. This one had two successful guesses, from Davida Chazan and WordsandPeace.
(13) The Great Divorce. C.S. Lewis. My prompt was supposed to be for a wide shot, with a grey sad city on the left, and a happy golden city on a mountain on the far right. Below the mountain there was supposed to be a bus stop with people arguing. I didn’t think anyone would get this one, so props to WordsandPeace and Marian for seeing it!
(14) Tom Sawyer. Tom and Becky Thatcher are exploring the cave.
(15) This was meant to be Neuromancer. I even told Bing to make the sky the color of a tv set to a dead channel. Congrats to Cyberkitten for being the only participant to spot this one, which was evidently very confusable with Ready Player One. I probably should have played with the prompt some more, but the Sprawl is a difficult concept to capture. Of course, I had CK in mind when I included this one, heh. Let’s try again:
Reading Freely 
I think I might have got the two solo hits because I know what you’ve been reading and I know what you like – at least sometimes!!
GOOD Quiz idea though! [grin]
There are some stray advantages to hanging around here for fifteen years! Any temptation to create your own?
LOL – Oh, I’d hardly know where to *start*..!
That’s one reason I largely kept with the Classics — it limited the pool and made it a LOT more likely that people would recognize the references. I’m sure fun images could be made using Foundation, etc, but then everyone would be bewildered.
This was fabulous!
I read 13, so the bus and before and after totally jumped at me.
I really need to read #11!
Thanks so much, that was so so much fun.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Wow… I am surprised I did so well! That was fun.
Well, 8/15 is much better than I was expecting – at least that’s more than 50% 🤣 I’m kind of bummed I didn’t put down The Time Machine as a guess, though – the background looked so much like relatively present-day Rome that I dismissed that initial feeling pretty quickly, figuring you would pass up the opportunity to feature some Eloi and Morlocks if it were that 🙈 Next time, I’m putting down everything within the realm of possibilities!
Also, love the alter-images!
I think I did better than I thought but two were kind of lucky guesses. And some of the other titles are familiar to me now but having never read them I doubt I’d have managed to get them. I haven’t heard of the last one so I definitely wouldn’t have got that 😂 and tbh I only know of Jeeves from the search engine 🙈 this was fun to do though.