Let's Play Name That Novel!

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Here are the rules:

~ Post the opening line or passage of a novel.

~ Everyone else tries to guess the title and author.

~ The first person to answer correctly gets to post a new opening line or passage to another novel.

No cheating now! Don't be doing google searches and whatnot. LOL ;) And please try to post excerpts from novels that are at least moderately well-known.

This is a fun way to test your knowledge of literature and introduce us to new authors/novels we might not be familiar with.

I'll go first...

There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.


Ready? Go....

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Over 50 views and no one knows which novel this is? LOL :flag:

Ok... I'll give a few hints. It came out in 1995 under Random House. Has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. And the main characters are Grace, Tom Booker, and a horse named Pilgrim.

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Over 50 views and no one knows which novel this is? LOL
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Gosh, Cheryll! I think you beat the record, which is in the mid-thirties. Congrats! :D

Can we use Google, or is that cheating? :tongue
 

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Yeshanu, at this point I would say cheating in any form is now allowed! ;)

Maybe I should stick with the classics? LOL


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I doubt whether the lack of replies are due to no one knowing. Zonk's synopsis game didn't seem to go anywhere either.

Don't worry, I won't whisper the answer!

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Don't worry, I won't whisper the answer!

Ha!

Googled it, and found out that it was The Horse Whisperer.

Next Line:

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
 

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I looked it up. You are right, TheIT. :) You get to post the next opening line...

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Thanks. Voyage was my favorite Narnia book, and it's hard to forget a name like Eustace. ;)

I don't have many fiction books at hand right now, but let's throw this one out there:

It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.
 

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Harry Potter 6! I was about to post that if I knew any novels I would participate, then I reread the line! ^.^


Sailing towards the dawn, and I was perched atop the crow"s nest, being the ship's eyes.
 

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Airborn by Kenneth Opal (sp?) :)

Here's an easy one...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
 

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Cheryll said:
Here's an easy one...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

That's the first one I thought of, but if I answer you I'll have to post another opening line and I don't have one offhand. Tomorrow, maybe.
 

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Cheryll said:
Airborn by Kenneth Opal (sp?) :)

Here's an easy one...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

I knew it was a Dickens novel but I had to cheat and go pull the book off my shelf to make sure I had the right title.

Next:

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
 

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Next:

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

And I found another one:

There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself -- not just sometimes, but always.
 

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The Phantom Tollbooth. . . when he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On th way he thought about coming coming, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd bothered. Nothing really interested him, least of all the things that should have.




In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I have been turning over in my head ever since.
 
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Your right, Milton. . . had a slight breakdown in titles. . . and your right on the other front as well.


Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of site from the kitchen.
 

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Hey...isn't it my turn? Oh well. If it is my turn, here's mine:

"The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

No clue on yours, Cole.
 
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White Noise Critical: Text and Criticism by Don DeLillo and Mark Osteen.

That's the answer to Trav's.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman is the answer to werencole's.

So do I go now then? Okay, here's mine:

On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription - this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I believe.
 

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Bag of Bones by Stephen King.


My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of Colleton. My arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp boat in the blazing South Carolina heat....

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Cheryll said:
I grew up slowly beside the tides and marshes of Colleton. My arms were tawny and strong from working long days on the shrimp boat in the blazing South Carolina heat....


The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy

Let's see what I can find....

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.