“Who is John Galt?” – Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. (See, I can get the easy ones!)
A couple more children’s classics. Looking at them they are easier than I thought but wotthehell:
P12: “Once there was a tree … and she loved a little boy.”
P13: (for the well, duh! category) “Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.” Remember, The Grapes of Wrath has already been used!
It was Wang Lung’s marriage day.
One more, then I’m going to bed. (You notice I do a lot more asking than answering. That makes you feel smart and I don’t have to work hard. LOL!)
This one is trivial to the afficianado, but possible for the casual reader. Anyone who’s noticed my various sig lines over the last few months will have a major clue:
P15: “Marriages: Wimsey-Vane.”
I guessed a few more that haven’t been found yet:
Da Ace
DA2) “What’s it going to be, then, eh?”
Anthony Burgess, A clockwork orange
pluto
P10: “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
P11: “Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”
Jack London, The Call of the Wild
P13: (for the well, duh! category) “Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.”
well, duh! I’m stuck at work right now, watching over a database reload, so I’ll try to click my heels. “There’s no place like home… There’s no place like home…”
Yeah! Useless knowlege CAN be fun!
“It was the Summer of the Late Rose.”
This is from Redwall, By Brian Jaques I believe…read that one a while back…
“It was Wang Lung’s marriage day.”
I think this is The Good Earth. I had to read that for class.
Most of the others I probably could figure out if I didn’t need to sleep…
neuro, pluto, obviously, y’all are right. T4 is, indeed, the Time Machine. (The only book I’ve read in less than 24 hours in the last few years. ^__^)
Eschew Obfuscation
Yay, Raven!
Wonderful book, innit?
Oh, what the hell, I’ll add a few:
J-1) In 1815, M. Charles François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D------.
J-2) Mr. S[deleted] H[deleted], who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occassions he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
J-3) As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (Easy one, eh?)
Extra Bonus Point question:
J-4) It was summer, I remember. I was ten or eleven. I was roller skating with Howie and Steve.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, correct?
Eschew Obfuscation
Correct, Tengu.
J-2 is obviously by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but I’m not sure which book it is. The Hound of the Baskervilles, I think.
– Sylence
If a bird doesn’t sing, I’ll wait until it sings.
John Rush I hope you’re listening, that’s one of my favorite books of all time…You wrote:
I know it! It’s the beginning to The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison.
Man I looove that book.
Fat Guy in a Little Coat,
SDMB Self-Righteous Clique
P15: “Marriages: Wimsey-Vane.”
Busman’s Honeymoon?
You know your Stevenson, TomH, Kidnapped is the exact book I love Treasure Island, but that’s always been the one I preferred.
There should be a period after book there, too. 
And pluto, I’m not ashamed to say that I have every single one of the Harry Potter books on the bookshelf next to me. They’re great 
You guys should know this one - you got all those obscure ones - but it’s always been a favorite
"When shall we three meet again?
In thunder lightning or in rain?
When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?
TaleraRis, it’s Macbeth.
MoosieGirl:
MG3 - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway.
This may be easy for TomH as well:
MTS-3: “This little book arose from a course of public lectures, delivered by a theoretical physicist to an audience of about four hundred which did not substantially dwindle, though warned at the outset that the subject-matter was a difficult one and that the lectures could not be termed popular, even though the physicist’s most dread weapon, mathematical deduction, would hardly be utilized.”
pluto:
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
This is from one of my favorite books.
MTS-4: “Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky.”
A few more from the world of Science Fiction (that’s what we like to call a hint):
DA6) to wound the autumnal city
DA7) In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality.
DA8) You see, I had this space suit.
DA9) His followers called him Mahasamatman and said that he was a god.
DA10) He doesn’t know which one of us I am these days, but they know one truth. (This is actually a short story.)
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!