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la_samtyrMeme from my LotR sibs: these are the first sentences from 20 books I own. Guess which books they're from.
1. I'd managed to limp up to the main deck of the 'Great Eastern Queen' to stare off, squinting hard over her swaying wooden railing against the black horizon, hoping to see those first lights along the coastline of the far Siberian Gulf of Peter the Great.
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
3. Here's how it started.
4. Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.
5. Beth learned of her mother's death from a woman with a clipboard.
6. Sometimes at night I think my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.
7. I am Mary Brave Bird.
8. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
9. I found out about Rock Hudson in 1957.
10. You will see, my dear, that I have kept my word and that bonnets and pom-poms do not take up all my time--there will always be some left over for you.
11. It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement.
12. There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar ; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before all else was made.
13. On a bright, clear, windy day, my wife and I drove to a nearby lake.
14. I am a watchdog.
15. It was a Saturday afternoon on La Salle Street, years and years ago when I was a little kid, and around three o'clock Mrs. Shannon, the heavy Irish woman in her perpetually soup-stained dress, opened her back window and shouted into the courtyard, "Hey, Cesar, yoo-hoo, I think you're on television, I swear it's you!"
16. To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.
17. The boy sat in the open window and watched the baseball game in the vacant lot across the street.
18. Going out of Santa Fe along the road that leads north, you climb steadily for two or three miles along the sine of the hills, around curves carved from the sides of them, and thus onto a flat plateau.
19. Everything's fucking beautiful!
(And last but by no means least, because you knew this was coming...)
20. Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames.
1. I'd managed to limp up to the main deck of the 'Great Eastern Queen' to stare off, squinting hard over her swaying wooden railing against the black horizon, hoping to see those first lights along the coastline of the far Siberian Gulf of Peter the Great.
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
3. Here's how it started.
4. Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.
5. Beth learned of her mother's death from a woman with a clipboard.
6. Sometimes at night I think my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together.
7. I am Mary Brave Bird.
8. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
9. I found out about Rock Hudson in 1957.
10. You will see, my dear, that I have kept my word and that bonnets and pom-poms do not take up all my time--there will always be some left over for you.
11. It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement.
12. There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar ; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before all else was made.
13. On a bright, clear, windy day, my wife and I drove to a nearby lake.
14. I am a watchdog.
15. It was a Saturday afternoon on La Salle Street, years and years ago when I was a little kid, and around three o'clock Mrs. Shannon, the heavy Irish woman in her perpetually soup-stained dress, opened her back window and shouted into the courtyard, "Hey, Cesar, yoo-hoo, I think you're on television, I swear it's you!"
16. To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.
17. The boy sat in the open window and watched the baseball game in the vacant lot across the street.
18. Going out of Santa Fe along the road that leads north, you climb steadily for two or three miles along the sine of the hills, around curves carved from the sides of them, and thus onto a flat plateau.
19. Everything's fucking beautiful!
(And last but by no means least, because you knew this was coming...)
20. Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames.
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Date: 2008-09-13 06:25 pm (UTC)I'm afraid I only know 3
2) Pride and Prejudice
10) Dangerous Liaisons
And of course 20) Brokeback Mountain ;-)
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Date: 2008-09-13 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-13 06:33 pm (UTC)12) The Silmarillion.
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Date: 2008-09-13 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-13 07:01 pm (UTC)the last one is Brokeback mounties! XD! but someone alread guesed it!
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Date: 2008-09-13 07:04 pm (UTC)you know you write too much fan fic, when you say the name of your own Series, "Brokeback Mounties" instead of "Brokeback mountain" wow i'm an idiot!
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Date: 2008-09-14 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-13 10:57 pm (UTC)i liked this maybe i'll do it later.
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Date: 2008-09-14 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-14 12:44 am (UTC)4 Seven years in Tibet? <--- I nver finished this book, it sound slike it, but it was years ago. As a bonus, I hated the movie as well!
7 Lakota Woman <-- I loved this, my friend got it at the only woman's bookstore in my hometown.
12 The Silmarillion <--- I checked this with lee.
15 The mambo kings play songs of love I think.
20 Brokeback Mountain this one I am sure of!
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Date: 2008-09-14 03:47 am (UTC)Actually you did excellently, and I put #2 in to show that yes, I did do my share of 'obligatory English lit degree reading'. ;)