First Lines Game

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:10 pm

Similar to "Name That Book!", but in this case rather than providing a clue to the novel as a whole, we take the first line from a book, and ask people to name it.

Probably a little easier - and more Googleable - than the other game.

To begin:

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:34 pm

I read the book about a hundred years ago, but had to Google it to jog my memory. One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. An awesome book and I'm overdue for some Latin American Lit.

How about the 1962 iteration of... (seriously!!)

It was a dark and stormy night.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:59 am

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

"The primroses were over."

Website · Post by **Iolanthe** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:39 am

Watership Down. Richard Adams

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:58 am

Easy - Pride and Prejudice.

"The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:12 am

Wizard of Earthsea (I've read it too!)

New quote coming soon...

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:16 am

Frostheart wrote:Wizard of Earthsea (I've read it too!)

New quote coming soon...

"One hundred quotes and where to find them!" (kidding)

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:55 pm

I've read all these books so far but by the time I could rack my brain and come up with the title, it would be too late. Thank God for Google.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:40 pm

Could have been evil and grabbed a non-English book, but...

The Ice Devil swirled in over the city, reveling in this new otherworld it had found.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:52 am

Okay, this one I don't believe I've read. Rather than Google I'll give others a chance to name it from memory...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:41 am

Welp, I gave in and just searched for it. Silver Tongue by Charlie Fletcher.

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:14 am

I'm Murrin wrote:Welp, I gave in and just searched for it. Silver Tongue by Charlie Fletcher.

Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.

"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

The brown landscape of steaming refuse stretched away on all sides under a heavy yellow sky. the scene was barren and bare, a desert of rolling hills dotted with occasional patches of dark green vegetaion rooted in fissures in the loosely packed soil. Wisps of steam and brown marsh gas rose from pools of hot, liquid mud.

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:49 pm

He just passed away a week or so ago.

Your turn, Shadow.

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:10 am

I didn't know.

I've already posted my quote in that post.

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:52 pm

couldn't even find on google

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:07 pm

It's that special! OK, hint time: the name of the book is "The _______ World"

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:00 pm

auld?

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:29 pm

Nope. (It was published in the late 60s)

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:37 pm

johnathan Livingston seagull?

:):):):):):):):):):)

Post by **shadowbinding shoe** » Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:15 am

sgt.null wrote:johnathan Livingston seagull?

:):):):):):):):):):)

It's sci-fi

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First Lines Game

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