Callenge!

[maniasophron]

Okay, so below (in the cut mind ye) are 36 lines from 36 books. These are books I have enjoyed in some way shape or form and they are all the first line - skipping introductions, even if vital to the plot. There are poems, there are plays, there are novels, there are collections of short stories and of essays. Some authors are repeated. There

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[mordecai]

1. Don DeLillo "Great Jones Street"
3. James Joyce "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
5. Margaret Mitchell "Gone With The Wind"
8. I cheated at THIS ONE but won't put the answer and will instead laugh. A lot. I have confidence that someone will get it. Oh look! That song is playing! HA!
9. Geoffery Chaucer "The Canterbury Tales"
10. J.D. Salinger "Catcher In The Rye"
12. George Orwell "1984"
20. One of the Wayside School books?
21. Tom Stoppard "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (if I don't read it this semester, you need to kill me)
22. Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions"
24. Ovid "The Metamorphoses"?
26. Neil Gaiman "The Sandman IX: The Kindly Ones"
27. Ahaha, Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"?
32. Harper Lee "To Kill A Mockingbird"
34. Miguel De Cervantes "Don Quixote"

[maniasophron]

3 is wrong. 20 is way way off.

"Correct me if I'm wrong but are you asking for A CHALLENGE!?"

[plaidavenger]

8. Iphigenia at Aulis - Euripides
9. Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (read by Michael McClure, haha!)
10. The Catcher In the Rye - J.D. Salinger
14. War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
24. Metamorphoses - Ovid
23. Anthem - (Hey kid, wanna read some) Ayn Rand
26. The Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman (and a bunch of other artsy types)
27. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
34. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

And yes, I understand that italics aren't appropriate for everything, as some of it's poetry. But I like italics.

P.S. Both lj and I are retarded. FOURTH time posting the same thing.

Re: "Correct me if I'm wrong but are you asking for A CHALLENGE!?"

[maniasophron]

Yay you got Iphigenia!