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First Lines Game
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:10 pm
by I'm Murrin
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 BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:34 pm
by deer of the dawn
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:59 am
by sgt.null
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
"The primroses were over."
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:39 am
by Iolanthe
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."
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:58 am
by I'm Murrin
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."
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:12 am
by Frostheart Grueburn
Wizard of Earthsea (I've read it too!)
New quote coming soon...
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 9:16 am
by shadowbinding shoe
Frostheart wrote:Wizard of Earthsea (I've read it too!)
New quote coming soon...
"One hundred quotes and where to find them!" (kidding)
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 1:55 pm
by deer of the dawn
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 7:40 pm
by Frostheart Grueburn
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:52 am
by deer of the dawn
Okay, this one I don't believe I've read. Rather than Google I'll give others a chance to name it from memory...
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:41 am
by I'm Murrin
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.
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:14 am
by shadowbinding shoe
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 3:49 pm
by deer of the dawn
He just passed away a week or so ago.
Your turn, Shadow.
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:10 am
by shadowbinding shoe
I didn't know.
I've already posted my quote in that post.
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:52 pm
by sgt.null
couldn't even find on google
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:07 pm
by shadowbinding shoe
It's that special! OK, hint time: the name of the book is "The _______ World"
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:00 pm
by sgt.null
auld?
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:29 pm
by shadowbinding shoe
Nope. (It was published in the late 60s)
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:37 pm
by sgt.null
johnathan Livingston seagull?
:):):):):):):):):):)
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:15 am
by shadowbinding shoe
sgt.null wrote:johnathan Livingston seagull?
:):):):):):):):):):)
It's sci-fi