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bluestocking79

First Lines

Oct 28, 2009 22:30

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ariadne1 October 29 2009, 01:41:49 UTC

3. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett :) Love that book.

ariadne1 October 29 2009, 01:42:44 UTC

10. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. :)

ariadne1 October 29 2009, 01:44:14 UTC

6. Wild guess. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 01:45:23 UTC

Right again! What gave it away? ;-)

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dreamy_dragon73 October 29 2009, 01:42:41 UTC

3. Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman Good Omens
10. Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 01:46:15 UTC

Yes on both of them, but Ari just edged you out! Although it looks like a tie on Mrs. Dalloway, so I say you both get it.

valady October 29 2009, 02:04:14 UTC

#7 is Stardust by Neil (wracks brain, but can't recall his last name. I blame menopause.)

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 02:05:47 UTC

LOL! I'll take it. It's Neil Gaiman, and right you are. :-)

tudorpot October 29 2009, 02:07:19 UTC

4. Sir Arther Conan Doyle- Sherlock Holmes- might be the 7% Solution, but I'm guessing at the title.

9. Is Jasper Fforde- The Well of Lost Plots

cosmiccoz October 29 2009, 02:20:58 UTC

"The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" wasn't written by Sir Arthur Conan Dole, it was by Nicholas Meyer. I tend to term those as "published fanfictions".

The quote is from "The Sign of Four", published in 1889.

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 02:35:35 UTC

The technical term for it is "pastiche." :D

And yes, a gold star to you for recognizing The Sign of the Four! Well spotted.

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 02:32:14 UTC

Yes on both authors, but no on the titles, I'm afraid.

corianderpie October 29 2009, 02:14:45 UTC

#1 PG Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves (?)

#2 Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

#8 Middlemarch

:D

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 02:36:18 UTC

Yes, yes and yes! You rock. :D

corianderpie October 29 2009, 04:16:11 UTC

The PGW was kind of a gimme, since I have it on the brain. :D You love some righteous books.

bluestocking79 October 29 2009, 13:48:33 UTC

I have to admit, I thought you would be the one to ID the Wodehouse, given your current reading. :D

And thank you! I can honestly say that I'm fond of all of these.