No, it is not. (Howards End and A Canticle for Leibowitz are correct.)
22.3 The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
[QUOTE=Gadarene]
11. Clare: It’s hard being left behind.
22.1 While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.
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- The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenger
22.1 Tom Jones?
- If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owns the place, he’s a spaceman.
[QUOTE=Gadarene]
22.1 While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour.
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Vanity Fair, by W.M. Thackeray.
Heller really took off in a different direction after that opening, didn’t he?
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Everybody is talkin’ these days about Tammany men growin’ rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft.
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I am Buffalo Bill’s horse.
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The small boys came early to the hanging.
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Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.
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Hughes got it wrong, in one important detail.
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]
Nobody guessed these last time we did this, so I’ll post 'em again.
“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”
“It had all been arranged by telegram; Jeremy Pordage was to look out for a coloured chauffeur in a grey uniform with a carnation in the button-hole; and the coloured chauffeur was to look out for a middle-aged Englishman carrying the Poetical Works of Wordsworth.”
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Is the second one one of the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse?
[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]
Nobody guessed these last time we did this, so I’ll post 'em again.
“A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.”
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut
Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuin.
Regards,
Shodan
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
29. If a man walks in dressed like a hick and acting as if he owns the place, he’s a spaceman.
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That sounds like Heinlein, but I can’t identify the book.
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
32. The small boys came early to the hanging.
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The Pillars of the Earth
Double Star
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Is the second one one of the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse?
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Nope.
It’s After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley.
You are officially awesome.
18: The Water Babies
33: 'Salem’s Lot
I’m going to give one, but I’m going to leave out the character’s name, because it’s a dead giveaway.
xxx was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charms as the Tarleton twins were.
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I’m going to give one, but I’m going to leave out the character’s name, because it’s a dead giveaway.
xxx was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charms as the Tarleton twins were.
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Shoulda left out the other name too: Gone with the Wind 
I haven’t answered, but mine will surely never be answered due to its difficulty and obscureness:
– Lolita.
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
Double Star
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Correct. And, of course, Eleanor of Aquitaine is correct - it is a Heinlein. And it begins what is in my opinion one of the most effective immersion introductions in SF: Not only is the world defined quickly, but the narrator’s character shows through in the tone.
BH1: Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as though we were already in the middle of an argument.
BH2: You better not never tell nobody but God.
BH3: 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.
BH4: Hi, this is Alexis at the Parents’ League.
BH5: Call them the Firstborn.
BH6: The host poured tea into the cup and placed it on the small table in front of his guests, who were a father and daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink.
All of these are from favorite books off my shelf next to me.
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My father had a face that could stop a clock.
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The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
BH3: 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.
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The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
BH2: You better not never tell nobody but God.
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I’m pretty sure this is The Color Purple but I can’t check because for some inexplicable reason it is not sitting on my shelf of favorite books.
BH1 is really, really familiar but I can’t quite place it. I’m gonna be doing one of these :smack: when somebody walks in here with the right answer.
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First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
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The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself.
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In the spring, families in the suburbs of New Orleans-Metarie, Jefferson, Lafayette-hang wreaths on their front doors.
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Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
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Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than: ‘I’ll never leave you’.
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They never found her. Nothing at all: no clothes, no jewelry, no bones or teeth or lock of auburn hair.
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When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up.
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Imagine that you have to break someone’s arm.
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The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.