Taken from
dasein_plushie List the first sentence from 10 of your favorite books and have your friends try to guess what they are
Ok - so:
For some of these I put the first few sentences....
1. Yes I certainly was feeling depressed. I don't think that this was altogether the reaction of the day. Of course there always is a reaction after the excitement of a flight; but the effect is more physical than moral.
2. riverrun past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howath Castle and Environs.
3.When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one bedroom house I'd bought with the small amount of money I inherited when our parents died.
4. There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by nature with the most agreeable manners.
5. Rattisbon Anno Dommini Domini mense decembri mclv Cronicle of Baudilino of the family of Aulario.
6. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
7. How much money would you need for the rest of your life? How much would you need in a lump sum so that you never had to work again, never had to worry about bills or taxes or a house payment.
8. It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.
9. This is the testimony of all that I have seen, and all that I have learned, in those years that I have possessed the Three Seals of MASSHU.
10. A company may have purchased the best security technologies that money can buy, trained thier people so well that they lock up all thier secrets before going home at night, and hired building guards from the best security firm in the business. That company is still totally vulnerable.
O.K. Happy guessing...