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A Game for You!
Sep. 10th, 2005 09:53 amSo when I had to list my Top Five Favorite Books in the last entry, I was reminded of a game I saw in another community once. The game is, I write the first lines of my ten favorite books (ten is easier to pick than five, believe it or not), and you have to guess what they are. So I went to my bookshelf and pulled off the ten books that I probably like best of those, though if you think about it I probably have a lot of books I like even better that I don't actually own. And I stuck with fiction, partially because nonfiction would be too obvious. Although if you've read these books THESE opening lines might seem too obvious, too, with names and characters and whatnot, but who cares. Post any guesses in comments, but make your guesses before you read other people's, I mean, let's be fair...! I'll let you know if you're right in a few days, to give everyone time. I mean, if they wANT to guess... I would, but I'm a registered nerd. As a further hint, these are all by different authors except two of them which are by the same author, and that might be a very good clue to those two!
Okay:
1. It was a dark and stormy night. Yeah, gotta love that one for an opening line.
2.The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.
3. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. (And I think that is just one of the greatest opening lines EVER, but that's just me).
4. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" (Also another terrific line, don't say YOU'VE never quoted it).
5. On close study, this opening sentence, (which ONE of you, if she reads this, is going to know INSTANTLY), appears to be a whole paragraph long, so I'm only going to take it to the first semi-colon: Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place;
6. Some things start before other things. (probably going to be the toughest one).
7. I saw him for the first time at the funeral. (This one might also be tough, but I'm more certain that at least a couple of you have read it).
8. 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.
9. This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history. (no, not a giveaway THERE or anything)
10. Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. (Another one that is not quite so famous, but come on, that line is so memorable that if you HAVE read it, you'll know it).
Doesn't it just make you want to READ??????
EDIT: A couple more hints: The two books that have the same author are #1 and #7.
#6 was mentioned in my reply to the comment in my last entry.
#9 maybe isn't quite so obvious after all, but I know as soon as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yavanna2006 sees this she will set you all to rights very quickly.
Okay:
1. It was a dark and stormy night. Yeah, gotta love that one for an opening line.
2.The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.
3. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. (And I think that is just one of the greatest opening lines EVER, but that's just me).
4. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" (Also another terrific line, don't say YOU'VE never quoted it).
5. On close study, this opening sentence, (which ONE of you, if she reads this, is going to know INSTANTLY), appears to be a whole paragraph long, so I'm only going to take it to the first semi-colon: Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place;
6. Some things start before other things. (probably going to be the toughest one).
7. I saw him for the first time at the funeral. (This one might also be tough, but I'm more certain that at least a couple of you have read it).
8. 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.
9. This book is largely concerned with Hobbits, and from its pages a reader may discover much of their character and a little of their history. (no, not a giveaway THERE or anything)
10. Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. (Another one that is not quite so famous, but come on, that line is so memorable that if you HAVE read it, you'll know it).
Doesn't it just make you want to READ??????
EDIT: A couple more hints: The two books that have the same author are #1 and #7.
#6 was mentioned in my reply to the comment in my last entry.
#9 maybe isn't quite so obvious after all, but I know as soon as
yavanna2006 sees this she will set you all to rights very quickly.
