Copying the pie, aka solaced

Apr 11, 2005 21:50

The following are the beginnings of some of my favorite books. Guess what they are. :)

1. There's a war going on, and I'm bleeding.

2. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

3. Zoya closed er eyes again as the troika flew across the icy round, the soft mist of snow leaving tiny damp kisses on her cheeks, and turning her eyelashes to lace as she listened to the horses' bells dancing in her ears like music. They were the sounds she had loved since childhood.

4. It's been a long time since I've played with dolls. I've never really thought back on my time with plastic humans before, but today, as I was watcing a group of giggly young girls browsing Barbies in the Wal-Mat, I remembered the feeling--that strange sexual energy and giddy shapme of playing Barbies in my bedroom. It was a spinning, dizzy sensation. My friends and I spoke in hushed tones as we held thesedlls in various stages of dress. If our parents had ever found out what we were doing, those dolls certainly would have been taken away from us. it wasn't our fault Barbie and her pals released our initial sexuality. We were young and full of questions and those dolls are shaped like hand-held sexpots. Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon. Correctly identified by dreamingescape.

5. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

6. Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Correctly identified by solaced.

7. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Correctly identified by handsinline.

8. Most people don't stare at the scars. They'll look, of course, then do the eye slide. you know, the quick look, then drop the gaze, then just have to have that second look. But they make it quick. The wounds aren't like freak show bad, but they are interesting. Captain Pete McKinnon, firefighter and arson investigator, at across from me, big hands wrapped around a glass of iced tea that our secretary, Mary, had brought in for him. He wasn staring at my arms. Not the place most men look. but it wasn't sexual. He was staring at the scars and didn't seem a bit embarrassed about it.

Happy guessing! :D
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