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teru_bozu_ebi.
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
I've not included a couple of faves but I had to whittle this down... so I left off the most obvious and a couple of favorite non-fictions. Hurry, 'cause #1's a gimme. :)
Ten Book First Lines Under Here!
1. The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, guessed by moshesque!
2. We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, guessed by loveflyfree!
3. A sea of mist drifted through the cloud forest: soft, grey, luminescent. Cordelia's Honor (or Shards of Honor depending on the edition), first in the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, guessed by ladylotusmoon.
4. Up until the winter of 1811, anyone would have described the vicar of St. Charles and St. Jude, the Reverend Charles Armitage, as a very happy man. Minerva by Marion Chesney, correct series and author (OMG) guessed by ladylotusmoon!
5. This time there would be no witnesses. This time there was just the dead earth, a rumble of thunder, the onset of that interminable light drizzle from the northeast by which so many of the world's most momentous events seem to be accompanied. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, guessed by teru_bozu_ebi!
6. Sundered from us by gulfs of time and stranger dimensions dreams the ancient world of Nehwon with its towers and skulls and jewels, its swords and sorceries. Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Lieber, guessed by ladylotusmoon (This is the first book in the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. LOVE!)
7. In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part... The Colour of Magic, first in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, guessed by ladylotusmoon.
8. The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli's C major quartet. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, guessed by 7veilsphaedra!
9. "Sally." A mutter. "Wake up now, Sally." A louder mutter: leeme lone. The Stand, by Stephen King, guessed by ladylotusmoon!
10. A January gale was roaring up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing on its bosom rain squalls whose big drops rattled loudly on the tarpaulin clothing of those among the officers and men whose duties kept them on deck. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, CS Forester, guessed by loveflyfree!
teru_bozu_ebi. 1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
I've not included a couple of faves but I had to whittle this down... so I left off the most obvious and a couple of favorite non-fictions. Hurry, 'cause #1's a gimme. :)
Ten Book First Lines Under Here!
moshesque!loveflyfree!ladylotusmoon.ladylotusmoon!teru_bozu_ebi!ladylotusmoon (This is the first book in the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. LOVE!)ladylotusmoon.7veilsphaedra!ladylotusmoon!loveflyfree!
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Date: 2009-10-23 05:18 am (UTC)#5 Is Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently!
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Date: 2009-10-23 05:38 am (UTC)Frustrating, I know I've read number 10. Can't remember it for the life of me though.
Honestly, you and your tall ship fics!
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Date: 2009-10-23 05:59 am (UTC)Honestly, you and your tall ship fics!
It's all about the poofy shirts and boots, really. :)
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Date: 2009-10-23 07:10 am (UTC)#10 is Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
and I know I know #9 and feel like I'm going to annoyed with myself when I figure out what it is.
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:14 pm (UTC)Nice icon, BTW. :)
As for #9, I was surprised at the first line. I was surprised at many of them, 'cause they'd give no clue to what's actually inside the rest of the book!
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Date: 2009-10-23 09:17 pm (UTC)So many of these first lines were about veils of mists and worlds!
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Date: 2009-10-23 12:18 pm (UTC)#3 - er... one of the books from the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold? I read it a looong time ago, in a universe far, far away...
#4 - Pretty sure this is from a Regency period romance novel, I just can't remember the details. When I was doing research for my novel, I read a zillion of them in a very short period of time.
#6 - "Swords and Deviltry" by Fritz Lieber. Another author I have on my shelves! I took a sci-fi lit class in college and we read him. "Night of the Wolf" is my favorite.
#7 - Terry Pratchett. I own every book he's written.
Did I mention I was an English major in college? heh.
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Date: 2009-10-23 02:51 pm (UTC)#10 HORATIO HORNBLOWER!!!! Squeee! My second-fave series next to Sharpe. C.S. Forester.
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:21 pm (UTC)Oh, and I love Handmaid's Tale the movie as well as the book! The movie has great acting, I think. I had such a girl-crush on Natasha Richardson after that, and Aidan Quinn was totally nommable as Nick. (And I must be completely pedestrian and admit that I loved the movie's more unambiguous happy-ish ending.)
I can't believe you got 6-- AWESOME! #7 is first in the series... do you know which one? #3, also! :)
::Hugs::
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Date: 2009-10-23 05:00 pm (UTC)#4 - "Deirdre and Desire" by Marion Chesney
#7 - "The Colour of Magic"
#3 - I don't have this series anymore :( Is it the third one? "Cordelia's Honor", maybe?
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Date: 2009-10-23 09:11 pm (UTC)#4 is actually "Minerva," the first one. I'm just shocked to death that anyone got it AT ALL. Hee! I lovelovelove the Six Sisters series. I can never even decide which is my favorite.
Hee, great job!!
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Date: 2009-10-23 12:34 pm (UTC)I don't recognize any of the others, but then I'm blaming my distinct lack of literature-based knowledge on the fact I spent a number of years reading every reference book I could find on Henry VIII and the Tudor period and consequently seemed to have missed out on a huge chunk of novels ;)
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:26 pm (UTC)You're right about Pratchett... it's the first in a series...
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Date: 2009-10-23 01:52 pm (UTC)And I've read The Handmaid's Tale and didn't recognize #4.
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