Comments | cmzero: Meme, courtesy of <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/aurora77">aurora77</a></strong>.

cmzero

Meme, courtesy of aurora77.

May 12, 2005 18:25

The following are the first sentences of ten of my favorite books (not necessarily in order). See if you can guess them.

If some remain unguessed by this time tomorrow, I'll add the second line, and so forth each day. In cases where the first line was just too flipping obvious, I start with the second line; I'll note where I do this.

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surgo May 13 2005, 01:33:05 UTC

#1 is something by Terry Pratchett. I've never even read any of his books.

#2 is something in the Harry Potter series.

#10 is "The Winter of our Discontent" by John Steinbeck.

That's it.

cmzero May 13 2005, 01:38:25 UTC

1) Wrong.

2) The judges refuse to comment until you give an actual book title.

10) Nope.

jordanis May 13 2005, 01:48:59 UTC

I'm going to say #2 is Prisoner of Azkaban

surgo May 13 2005, 01:38:59 UTC

Oops. I took the easy bait with #10. But Steinbeck always ripped his titles off of something else. Remember that!

jordanis May 13 2005, 01:43:51 UTC

Ten is... Shakespeare. Richard III?

jordanis May 13 2005, 01:44:13 UTC

Eight is Candide, by Voltaire

cmzero May 13 2005, 01:47:27 UTC

Correct on both.

jordanis May 13 2005, 01:53:18 UTC

Oh! Four is the Silver Chair (I should really put all these in one place...)

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scribe_of_stars May 13 2005, 02:46:25 UTC

Hey, I got one of these for once! Number Five references good ol' Buck the dog from Jack London's The Call of the Wild.

And "Number Five" references good ol' Short Circuit! cmzero May 13 2005, 03:06:32 UTC

Correct.

bugen May 13 2005, 03:00:49 UTC

#7 is Ender's Game.

bugen May 13 2005, 03:05:16 UTC

...and #1 is The Phoenix Guards by Stephen Brust (which I didn't read much of yet -- I actually have a far too large backlog of books to read now :p).

And if you need me to name an author for #7, Orson Scott Card.

cmzero May 13 2005, 03:07:12 UTC

Right on both counts.

bugen May 14 2005, 19:11:28 UTC

And #6 is Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I haven't actually read it, but the name made it pretty easy to guess.

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one of the lines is from lord of the flies anonymous May 13 2005, 04:58:24 UTC

3) The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.

Lord of the Flies

Re: one of the lines is from lord of the flies cmzero May 13 2005, 05:58:16 UTC

Nope. Not a bad guess, but nope.

Re: one of the lines is from lord of the flies westmarked May 13 2005, 14:41:06 UTC

Is is The Cay?

Re: one of the lines is from lord of the flies cmzero May 13 2005, 19:42:05 UTC

Still no.