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Saw this on marinshellstone's journal. Looked like something to keep me occupied for a half-hour or so.
1. Choose 12 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence or so of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
1. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
2. (Going Postal by Terry Pratchett) They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.
3. Commerce is good. It's the way people create and exchange value. Corporatism is something else entirely.
4. (Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey) Lest anyone should suppose I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I must say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me.
5. (Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood) Snowman wakes before dawn. He lies unmoving, listening to the tide coming in, wave after wave sloshing over the various barricades, wish-wash, wish-wash, the rhythm of heartbeat. He would so like to believe he is still asleep.
6. Many people dream of having an abundance of love and sex and friendship.
7. It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.
8. (A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin) The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement.
9. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: "Have they discovered evolution yet?"
10. Welcome! To a world of magic and adventure! Of swords, sorceries, and heroes bold and true! Where explorers face both subterranean complexes and serpentine monstrosities on a regular basis. But wait! This isn't just some third-rate Lord of the Rings knock-off.
11. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling) The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.
12. She didn't remember dying. With an obscure sense of apprehension, she wondered if the distant angry voices drifting in to her meant she was again about to experience that transcendent ending: death.
1. Choose 12 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence or so of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
1. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
2. (Going Postal by Terry Pratchett) They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.
3. Commerce is good. It's the way people create and exchange value. Corporatism is something else entirely.
4. (Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey) Lest anyone should suppose I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I must say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me.
5. (Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood) Snowman wakes before dawn. He lies unmoving, listening to the tide coming in, wave after wave sloshing over the various barricades, wish-wash, wish-wash, the rhythm of heartbeat. He would so like to believe he is still asleep.
6. Many people dream of having an abundance of love and sex and friendship.
7. It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.
8. (A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin) The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer. They set forth at daybreak to see a man beheaded, twenty in all, and Bran rode among them, nervous with excitement.
9. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. If superior creatures from space ever visit earth, the first question they will ask, in order to assess the level of our civilization, is: "Have they discovered evolution yet?"
10. Welcome! To a world of magic and adventure! Of swords, sorceries, and heroes bold and true! Where explorers face both subterranean complexes and serpentine monstrosities on a regular basis. But wait! This isn't just some third-rate Lord of the Rings knock-off.
11. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling) The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.
12. She didn't remember dying. With an obscure sense of apprehension, she wondered if the distant angry voices drifting in to her meant she was again about to experience that transcendent ending: death.