Favorite books meme

[ultraviolet730]

Because I never post anything, and I always want to do these memes. Stolen from kitestringer:

1. Choose five of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.

Comments

[anomalys]

Well, this really hammers home just how under-read and blithely shallow I am. Note to self: read more books without pictures.

I'm rather partial to short-stories as well. Not sure that I'd do any better with that list, but I'd enjoy seeing it.

[ultraviolet730]

Wendy! Yay - you're an LJer. Finally. Hee.

Note to self: read more books without pictures.

Hee - those are "art," too. They are!

But, yeah, this whole first line thing has been very depressing. I haven't known or been able to guess many. And I didn't even know the first lines of the ones I chose. So, I've decided (prompted by another LJer) that first lines are not memorable. Or that, mostly,memorable ones do not a favorite book make!

[anomalys]

Wendy! Yay - you're an LJer. Finally. Hee.

Hey! I finally succumbed a few days ago. And now I'm just pretending that I know what I'm doing. (I blame you and LH for getting me into this. Heh.)

::Whew:: Really glad to know that I'm not the only one having trouble with the first lines. I'd love to know your top 5 short stories though.

[learned_hand]

Yay, Anomalys has arrived! This is a very labor intensive meme, Ultra -- nice work. (But for the record, is it me-me or meem when said out loud?) I want to play too, but I don't really know how. Maybe I'll just leave you with the first sentence of the first chapter of the only book I have at hand right now. "Both Congress and the Commission amended the Guidelines Manual during 2003."

Um. I'm not very cool.

[ultraviolet730]

Hey, who's that gorgeous ultra-blonde in your icon?

Um. I'm not very cool.

No, you're "school." Heehee. (Yes, I amuse myself.)