The rules are simple. Post the first few lines from a book, and then someone else will try to guess what the book is. I’ll go first:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Great Book!
Les Miserables. The unabridge version.
“Rabbit, Run” by John Updike.
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside of literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does.”
Uhh. . . quote tag. Right. :smack:
Heinlein’s Podkayne of Mars (I almost guessed “The Menace from Earth” but that’s a short story.)
The Secret History - Donna Tartt ?
mine:
The Little Prince by Antoine de Sainte Exupery.
Memoirs of A Geisha
Oops…forgot mine…stupid lack of preview…hopefully it’s still allowed if the book’s part of a series…
Ri-chan, I was going to guess Memoirs, too, but I thought it was told through the POV of the woman it was about, so that it could not say “when I was a boy of fourteen.” Am I forgetting?
:smack: Oh, for…that does it, I am definitely getting more bloody sleep…
Yes, sort of. It WAS told by Chiyo/Sayuri, however the quote is the beginning of the translater’s note…
Sorry I have no idea of any given, but here’s an entry- my favorite opening line (given from memory…)
"There was a boy named Eustace Scrubb and he almost deserved it.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C. S. Lewis.
The Wind howled. Lighting stabbed at the earth erratically, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills.
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.
[symbol]Apocaluyis Ihsou Cristou hn edwken autw o qeos deixai tois doulois autou a dei genesqai en taci kai eshmanen aposteilas dia tou angelou autou tou doulw autou Iwannh[/symbol]
Stab in the dark - Xenophon’s Anabasis?