Guess the book: first sentence/last sentence

The Game Room
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Dune

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If you want to debate the point of when the book starts, yes.

But then again, we both know you are right.

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And he is also right.

I started reading Dune back in High School. In Study Hall, the teacher told me, that I could not read the book, because no teacher had assigned it to me. [I had no work to do for any class that day.]

I was this close to getting my Homeroom teacher to assign it to me, just to make a point of it.

Never did.

Never picked the book up again after that day, either.

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Dune, I have heard, is the one book you can easily buy for cheap secondhand. I’ve never read it myself.

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The Bible

  1. It is a / of uniting them
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You can pick up any book cheap secondhand, if you compulsively go to every used book sale you hear of, and check every garage sale for a book section. You can’t always be picky about precisely what book you’ll find cheap, but you’ll almost always find something worthwhile.

Although my copy of Dune, I actually bought new.

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  1. Pride and Prejudice?

The first three words would give mine away, so I’ll have to edit them out. To make up I’ll give you the whole first and last sentences:

20 Mr {Name Redacted}, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table./ “Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?”

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The Hobbit :slight_smile:

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well played :slight_smile:

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  1. The Mole had/its full effect.

(It strikes me that any Anglophone could identify "Squire Trelawney, Doctor/‘Pieces of eight!’ " in a heartbeat even if they’d never read the book in question. Not even worth wasting a number on. :smiley: )

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I’ll toss out some.

21 : “Death came for” . . . “the half of it.”

22 : “Death came quietly” . . . “to drink alone.”

23 : “There would be” . . . “a glass man.”

24 : “Imprimus, they nuked” . . . “only child’s shoulder” *

  • A slight cheat here; I skipped a forward that started with a proper name; the line quoted is the first line of the actual story.
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  1. Two tires fly/ river of gold
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Since three of mine remain unguessed, I thought I’d throw in a few extra words on each side.

  1. There was no possibility of / even so, come, Lord Jesus!

  2. You will rejoice to hear / lost in darkness and distance.

  3. I thought the king had / much, nor live so long.

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Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, and King Lear.

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But then again, that is a collection of Books, right?
But Yes.

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All correct. Amazing how much easier this becomes with five words…

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One from an underrepresented genre:

  1. Once upon a / blackberries for supper

And a couple of more obscure ones (so I’ll throw in a couple more free words):

  1. Least anyone should suppose / fill him with everlasting myrrh

  2. I am old now / bring it into Greece

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Cryptonomicon

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Ding DinG Ding

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  1. The magician’s underwear/ your pine cone.