Meme

May 26, 2011 12:18

List the first sentences of five favourite books so that people can guess the books they come from. After three days, post the answers.

1. Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

2. People usually start life by being born. Not me, though.

3. The ( Read more... )

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fuzzyedges May 27 2011, 10:35:16 UTC
1 I'm sure is Henry James, but I can't think which, either Portrait of a Lady or Daisy Miller?

4 is Atonement by Ian McEwan

No idea about the others though! Except your all-time favourite, obviously!

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justsooz June 6 2011, 21:19:45 UTC
Good guess! It was The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James... My favourite opening line of all time.

2. The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers.

3. Watership Down by Richard Adams. I was addicted to this book when I was growing up and read it 7 times in a row!

4. Atonement by Ian McEwan - of course!

5. Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier.

The Lord of the Rings will always be my favourite book. I grew up with it, and read it more times than I should admit. I'm re-reading it now for the first time since I was in secondary school teaching myself Elvish (utter Tolki geek!) and somehow it's like coming home. Yup, I'm still a geek.

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