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Famous last words

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 1:58 am
by Sevothtarte
New game, guessing books from their final lines.

Where's this one from?
Foster said, "Skip the formalities, please. I've left you a load of work and you don't have all eternity to fiddle with it. Certainly 'Thou art God' - but who isn't?"
He left, and Mike pushed back his halo and got to work. He could see a lot of changes he wanted to make-

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 3:18 am
by [Syl]
sounds familiar, but i can't place it. i'd like to say Good Omens, but i doubt it.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 3:42 am
by Sevothtarte
Good Omens rocks like Santa in a bikini - but no, these lines are from another, much older book.

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:13 am
by Fist and Faith
I grok this one! :)

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 4:26 am
by Sevothtarte
You got it! :)

For the uninitated: Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein.

Your turn, Fist and Faith. :)

Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2003 2:56 pm
by Fist and Faith
Here we go!
A ship that size couldn't stop or turn around in less than a mile or so, and the lifeboats would need additional time to locate me at dusk in a rough sea. Yet I knew they would find me if I managed to keep afloat. A wave swept over me, but I shook the white belt of hair out of my eyes and started swimming strongly. Until the body melts and the brain ceases to gel, a man who has come out whole after having been put through his paces by the Delian has a heart for living.
I think it's a tough one, but at least one of you can get it. :) heh heh

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 3:09 pm
by danlo
Well I was going 2 guess either Robinson Crusoe as a joke, but will try w/ The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. as that seems a little more plausible--I get the feeling I am totally off base and haven't a clue in the world. And u kno what? It feels GRRRRRRRR-ATE!! :lion: (we don't need no stinkin' tigers...)

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 3:58 pm
by Fist and Faith
Sorry danlo. :)
Here's a clue: Copyright is 1949. I have reason to suspect that only one of you regular posters knows the answer, and I'm sort of waiting for him/her to visit this thread. :)
And I guess that admission might be another clue.

This is a tough thread, and I expect we'll stump each other quite often if we don't do things like, "History will view us as wives" or however exactly that quote goes. I mean, has anybody else read <U>The Kundalini Equation</U>? There's just too many books that we all just happen to stumble on. Anyway, if nobody gets it, I'll give another clue by the time I go to sleep in 13-ish hours, then the answer tomorrow.

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 6:03 pm
by danlo
Moby Dick? (after I posted this my answer stuck me as very funny! But I'm trying, I'm trying!!!)

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:19 pm
by Lord Mhoram
:) I was thinking Moby Dick, too... :roll: Didn't want to sound too stupid.

Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 9:57 pm
by danlo
"it is a wise man who admits he is a fool." just a quote, not a famous last line! :D

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:07 am
by Fist and Faith
Another hint: In this book, you will meet Orpheus, Robin Hood, Gawain, and a whole bunch of other characters from myth and legend.

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 2:18 am
by Fist and Faith
And btw, Master Po said, <I>"The wise man walks with his head bowed, humble, like the dust."</I>

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 6:32 am
by Sevothtarte
Fist and Faith wrote:I have reason to suspect that only one of you regular posters knows the answer, and I'm sort of waiting for him/her to visit this thread. :)
Let's set some rules ... the book should be fantasy/SF, at least moderately popular, not an anthology or other kind of collection, published in English of course ...

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 11:55 am
by Fist and Faith
Like I said, this is a tough thread. So the answer is <U>Silverlock</U>, by John Myers Myers. My sort of weird clue was because fightingmyinstincts made a thread a few days ago about the book, and I was the only one to respond to it. So I figured that was one person who would know, and the rest of you might have stumbled across that, and remembered it here. :D

So who should go next? I'd say danlo, who made the most guesses.

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:09 pm
by Zahir
Oh! Oh! I was going to guess Silverlock (though only after those clues!)!!!!

Can I play?
Then Richard nodded, without trusting himself to speak, and stood up. And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness, leaving nothing behind them; not even the doorway.
Any guesses?

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 7:38 pm
by Sevothtarte
I know! :) Fine book, don't know the TV version. But I'll let someone else answer, since I just had my turn. ;)

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 8:14 pm
by Ryzel
Okay, so I am just fishing here and Sevothyarte mentioned a TV series. :D

My guess is: Neverwhere

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 6:28 pm
by Ylva Kresh
Jus curious (have only seen the TV-version, and do not remember): was it Neverwhere?

Hoom, I think I shall start a new thread...

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 7:58 pm
by Ryzel
It is Neverwhere, I have the book right here.