Unforgettable Opening Paragraphs

Post by **Skyweir** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 4:08 pm

ummm ... tLtWatW???? of tCoN .. by CS Lewis???

just a wild guess

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 9:59 pm

Nicely done!

Post by **Dromond** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 4:51 am

BTW, danlo, The Book of Three, LLoyd Alexander !

Post by **Michael Giantfriend** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 1:08 pm

... "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
- "Dune", Frank Herbert

2 brownie points if you can get this one:
"For two weeks, Ginny concentrated on taking care of me."

5 brownie points for this:
"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended."

And, finally, 25 million brownie points if anyone gets this.
"Saturday, June the 13th. And Robert Caligari is going to die today."

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 02, 2002 1:15 pm

Wild guesses

Wow Drommond! Never heard of The Book of Three!! Is it any good? Actually Ivanhoe does start out something like that--very simplistic...horse sense, so 2 speak. hahaha

Ok Michael--I kno none of these r correct--but my warped sense of humor makes the answers seem very funny 2 me!

1. Chronicles of Amber
2. Jurassic Park
3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Post by **Michael Giantfriend** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:04 pm

Clues, then?

No. 1 is by our very own SRD, if that helps.

No. 2 is by the guy that more or less invented the idea of geostationary orbit satellites

If No. 3 were "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari", he would probably be saying "You have a Woman's Cabinet, m'lord!"

Post by **danlo** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 1:48 pm

Well I'm totally miffed--if #1 has 2 do with The Man Who (The Killing Stroke? which btw I have read just 2 lazy 2 walk from comp 2 bookself 2 verify)-I haven't read it--2: I really don't know--Heinlein? Clarke? #3--my joke still stands as I don't have a frigging clue...,

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Oct 03, 2002 3:49 pm

#1 is *definitely* one of the "The Man Who..." books. But which one? Arrgh! I will have to check tonight!

The others, I haven't a clue. Good going, Giantfriend! You've stumped us all!

Post by **Earthblood** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:53 am

I'm stumped too, Michael

How about some easy ones from my library..
1)The nightbefore Geraden came for her, Terisa Morgan had a dream - one of the few she could ever remember. (I told you they were easy)

2)On this day of days there was an unfamiliar stirring deep inside the heart of the Hayholt, in the castle's bewildering warren of quiet passages and overgrown, ivy-choked courtyards, in the monk's holes and damp, shadowed chambers.

3)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 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?"

1 brownie each - these are easy (confidence boosters)!

Earthy

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:14 am

Rough guesses! 1 I'm sure is A Mirror of Her Dreams
2. I don't know but due to ur recent raves probably The Dragonbone Chair
3. I Love You Alice B. Tolkas (

no, just kidding) Must b Alice Though the Looking Glass

See if you can guess this one: "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead."

Post by **Vain** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:50 am

"The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended." Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

"Saturday, June the 13th. And Robert Caligari is going to die today." Tom Baker: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

I'm going to have to think of some of my own

Post by **Earthblood** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 12:15 pm

Couldn't resist 'Alice' - early fantasy reading for me...

I'll have to come up with tougher ones, but I did tell you they would be easy

You're the man, Danlo!

Don't have a clue on your's - ? Franz Lieber?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 1:49 pm

Fritz Lieber (who wrote The Wanderer 1 of my fav SciFis of all time!), btw, and no that's not it...About your 1st question--I had better have known that or Jay would have fired me!

Post by **Vain** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:49 am

danlo wrote:"We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. "The wildlings are dead."

Twould be an angry aston

Try:

1. "It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my future"

2. "Boris Johnson stepped lightly and automatically off the outermost strip of the groundlevel glideway and onto the sidewalk lip"

Post by **danlo** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 3:41 pm

who is angry aston? So far u have not IDed the book Vain!

Post by **Vain** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 9:52 am

G.R.R (Grrrrr) (Aston) Martin - sorry. I'm not too good at cryptic stuff

Post by **Earthblood** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:29 pm

Good one Vain!

Post by **danlo** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:50 pm

That is good Vaino! I've just never looked @ his initials as Grr b4...
Tigger: grrrr, wruffle, wruffle, wruffle!

Now I might have picked up on it if u said Austin--Yeah BABY!

Post by **Vain** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 10:00 am

All that Austin Powers stuff will turn you into Skyweir V2

Post by **danlo** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:25 pm

Scary stuff Vain!--u kno Sky is on small haitus right now, right? (book is called A Game of Thrones, btw, I just started A Clash of Kings and it's totally AWESOME!

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