First Lines
Feb. 15th, 2007 04:07 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordweaverlynnI found this meme while I was scrounging around in my hard drive for a different file.
1) Select 5-10 (or so) books you love. 2) Post the first line from each of them. 3) Don't mention the title or author. That's for everyone else to figure out. 4) After someone correctly identifies the book, update the original entry to reflect that fact.
For the purposes of this meme, I'm skipping epigraphs and going straight to the meat of the book. Unfortunately, many of my favorite books have giveaway first lines. (I think we all know what book starts out: "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.) So I grabbed some books from the nearby shelves and from my internal library. I've included fiction and nonfiction, old books and newer ones.
1. Dante stared and stared at the corpse, but a blindness waited behind his eyes.
2. My bandana is rolled on the diagonal and retains water fairly well.
3. All day it has been windy--strange weather for late July--the wind swirling through the hedges like an invisible flood-tide among seaweed; tugging them, compelling them in its own direction, dragging them one way until the patches of elder and privet sagged outward from the tougher stretches of blackthorn at either side.
4. There was no possibility of a walk that day. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte -- recognized by![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oursin
5. The bells of St. Mark's were ringing changes up on the mountain when Bud skated over to the mod parlor to upgrade his skull gun. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson -- recognized byhobbitblue
6. I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath. The Face of Battle by John Keegan -- recognized bybeckyzoole
7. The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?" The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre, recognized byimnotandrei
8. Don't get me wrong: I love the restaurant business. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, recognized byirontongue
9. In a starless May night the town slept and the river flowed quietly through shadow.
10. Now read on. . . .
ETA The unidentified first lines are revealed in this entry.
1) Select 5-10 (or so) books you love. 2) Post the first line from each of them. 3) Don't mention the title or author. That's for everyone else to figure out. 4) After someone correctly identifies the book, update the original entry to reflect that fact.
For the purposes of this meme, I'm skipping epigraphs and going straight to the meat of the book. Unfortunately, many of my favorite books have giveaway first lines. (I think we all know what book starts out: "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.) So I grabbed some books from the nearby shelves and from my internal library. I've included fiction and nonfiction, old books and newer ones.
1. Dante stared and stared at the corpse, but a blindness waited behind his eyes.
2. My bandana is rolled on the diagonal and retains water fairly well.
3. All day it has been windy--strange weather for late July--the wind swirling through the hedges like an invisible flood-tide among seaweed; tugging them, compelling them in its own direction, dragging them one way until the patches of elder and privet sagged outward from the tougher stretches of blackthorn at either side.
4. There was no possibility of a walk that day. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte -- recognized by
oursin5. The bells of St. Mark's were ringing changes up on the mountain when Bud skated over to the mod parlor to upgrade his skull gun. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson -- recognized by
hobbitblue6. I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath. The Face of Battle by John Keegan -- recognized by
beckyzoole7. The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep?" The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarre, recognized by
imnotandrei8. Don't get me wrong: I love the restaurant business. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, recognized by
irontongue9. In a starless May night the town slept and the river flowed quietly through shadow.
10. Now read on. . . .
ETA The unidentified first lines are revealed in this entry.
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:33 pm (UTC)5. Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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Date: 2007-02-15 02:29 pm (UTC)8 - Kitchen Confidential?
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Date: 2007-02-15 07:31 pm (UTC)(I could've given you #6 and #2, but that's because of Googling. So I won't. Also I could've given you #4 and #5 but I am Slow.)
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