The belated answers to the book/song meme
The books:
1. Foghorns wailed from burnished-white liners and rust-scabbed freighters tethered to massive buoys. - Dynasty, Robert S. Elegant
2. "Where is he?"
Barney hopped from one foot to the other as he clambered down from the train, peering in vain through the white-faced crowds flooding eagerly to the St Austell ticket barrier. "Oh, I can't see him. Is he there?" - Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper - C
3. Look, Simeon Krug wanted to say, a billion years ago there wasn't even any man, there was only a fish. - Tower of Glass, Robert Silverberg
4. At the sound of sandaled feet upon stone, the Priest Rajasta raised his face from the scroll he held open on his knee. - The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. "Bitte." The elderly, bearded passenger offers a pack of Capstan cigarettes to a blond young man sitting opposite him in the train compartment. - The Warlord, Malcolm Bosse
6. The sun stood midmorning high when Doyle Hardy saw the U.S. marshal approaching along the road from Fort Smith. - Choctaw Trail, Will Camp
7. "He is very ugly," said his mother. "My brothers are all handsome, and my mother was celebrated for her beauty, and I am not, myself, unprepossessing. How is it possible that I gave birth to so repulsive a child?" - Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell
8. The Finns knew the Guardians had won. It was over. - Allies and Aliens, Roger MacBride Allen
9. "You are a kallikanzaros," she announced suddenly. - This Immortal, Roger Zelazny
10. Martha Macnamara stood at the Pacific, her toes digging into the froth. She had come the length of the country in one day's flight, and she had trouble believing that this was a different ocean. - Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
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The songs:
1. Some people say a man is made outta mud - Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford - Gravelrash
2. She left without leavin' a number - Austin, Blake Shelton - C
3. Who lives in a house like this? - Neighbourhood, Space - Moltare
4. What do you see, you people gazing at me - Doll on a Music Box, from the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
5. We've all seen the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change - What It's Like, Everlast - Vorn
6. For millions of years, In millions of homes - Like Humans Do, David Byrne - Gravelrash
7. Hello darkness, my old friend - The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel - Vorn
8. Kiss me out of the bearded barley - Kiss Me, Sixpence none the Richer - Mahmoth
9. No one likes us, I don't know why - Political Science, Randy Newman - Vorn
10. I always said, that'd be it - Forgive, Rebecca Lynn Howard - C
Any surprises? Any you feel you should have gotten?
1. Foghorns wailed from burnished-white liners and rust-scabbed freighters tethered to massive buoys. - Dynasty, Robert S. Elegant
2. "Where is he?"
Barney hopped from one foot to the other as he clambered down from the train, peering in vain through the white-faced crowds flooding eagerly to the St Austell ticket barrier. "Oh, I can't see him. Is he there?" - Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper - C
3. Look, Simeon Krug wanted to say, a billion years ago there wasn't even any man, there was only a fish. - Tower of Glass, Robert Silverberg
4. At the sound of sandaled feet upon stone, the Priest Rajasta raised his face from the scroll he held open on his knee. - The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley
5. "Bitte." The elderly, bearded passenger offers a pack of Capstan cigarettes to a blond young man sitting opposite him in the train compartment. - The Warlord, Malcolm Bosse
6. The sun stood midmorning high when Doyle Hardy saw the U.S. marshal approaching along the road from Fort Smith. - Choctaw Trail, Will Camp
7. "He is very ugly," said his mother. "My brothers are all handsome, and my mother was celebrated for her beauty, and I am not, myself, unprepossessing. How is it possible that I gave birth to so repulsive a child?" - Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell
8. The Finns knew the Guardians had won. It was over. - Allies and Aliens, Roger MacBride Allen
9. "You are a kallikanzaros," she announced suddenly. - This Immortal, Roger Zelazny
10. Martha Macnamara stood at the Pacific, her toes digging into the froth. She had come the length of the country in one day's flight, and she had trouble believing that this was a different ocean. - Tea with the Black Dragon, R. A. MacAvoy
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The songs:
1. Some people say a man is made outta mud - Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford - Gravelrash
2. She left without leavin' a number - Austin, Blake Shelton - C
3. Who lives in a house like this? - Neighbourhood, Space - Moltare
4. What do you see, you people gazing at me - Doll on a Music Box, from the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
5. We've all seen the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change - What It's Like, Everlast - Vorn
6. For millions of years, In millions of homes - Like Humans Do, David Byrne - Gravelrash
7. Hello darkness, my old friend - The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel - Vorn
8. Kiss me out of the bearded barley - Kiss Me, Sixpence none the Richer - Mahmoth
9. No one likes us, I don't know why - Political Science, Randy Newman - Vorn
10. I always said, that'd be it - Forgive, Rebecca Lynn Howard - C
Any surprises? Any you feel you should have gotten?