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Fictional First Lines #979955
09/24/14 01:08 PM
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Can you identify the following fictional novels by their opening lines?

-1. Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
-2. This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
-3. Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmond, and Lucy.
-4. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so.
-5. The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
-6. When I was three and Bailey was four, we had arrived in the musty little town, wearing tags on our wrists which instructed - "To Whom It May Concern" - that we were Marguerite and Bailey Johnson Jr., from Long Beach, California, en route to Stamps, Arkansas, c/o Mrs. Annie Henderson.
-7. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.
-8. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
-9. Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one in never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay.
-10. At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979956
09/24/14 01:17 PM
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4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens wave

Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979960
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Great start! wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979964
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I think 3 could be the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which I believe is the title of the first of the Narnia Chronicles by C S Lewis. smile


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979970
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979975
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #979985
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All correct! wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980000
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Is 7 a Hemingway?


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980004
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It sure is! Can you say which one? smile


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980007
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2. The Princess Bride


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980022
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Well done, ladies! smile


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980035
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980037
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9.Inside Peyton Place/The Life of Grace Metalious/Emily Toth wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980071
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Yes to both! wave


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980165
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980167
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I still have nightmares.


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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980181
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Re: Fictional First Lines [Re: Pandora] #980242
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Exactly! smile


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