commasense got my sp1 and sp2 correct. Clockwork and The Odyssey
*Replay *by Ken Grimwood. Excellent Science fiction novel about a man who keeps dying then re-living his life over and over again.
Pawn of Prophecy, first book of the Belgariad, by Eddings.
Yep. “The Black Company” by Glen Cook.
Forgot to say, all of mine have been correctly guessed except this one:
Ril2: Right now I’m supposed to be all geeked up because I’m getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party that some guy named Lionel invited me to. Sheila, my baby sister, insisted on giving me his phone number because he lives here in Denver and her simple-ass husband played basketball with him eleven years ago at the University of Washington, and since I’m still single (which is downright pitiful to her, considering I’m the oldest of four kids and the only one who has yet to say “I do”), she’s worried about me.
And I’ll add some more:
Ril6: If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
Ril7: Thursday, January 1st
Bank Holiday in England, Scotland and Wales
These are my New Year’s resolutions:
- I will help the blind across the road.
- I will hang my trousers up.
- I will put the sleeves back on my records.
- I will not start smoking.
- I will stop squeezing my spots.
- I will be kind to the dog.
- I will help the poor and ignorant.
- After hearing the disgusting noises from downstairs last night, I have also vowed never to drink alcohol.
Ril8: Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912.
Ril9: Amoebae leave no fossils. They haven’t any bones. (No teeth, no blet buckles, no wedding rings.) It is impossible, therefore, to determine how long amoebae have been on earth.
In the beginning…
:smack: I meant belt buckles. But you knew that, right?
JThunder: That’s Valley of the Dolls, right? 
Ril7 The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
(or whatever it was called)
Okay, change of direction.
PM5 “Today is a good day to die”
PM6 - “Someone once said, if it was raining brians Roxy Robinson wouldn’t even get wet”
PM7 - “Let me tell you what* Like A Virgin*'s about”
PM8 - “War, war, war! This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream!”
PM9 - “I like to think about the times I spent with my dad - except I don’t remember them being this…orange…”
PM10 -“Did you hear that? They’ve shut down the main reactor. We’ll be destroyed for sure!”
PM11 - “Rosebud”
Correct!
You mean opening lines of movies? Perhaps you should open a separate thread for that. In the meantime, however:
Reservoir Dogs.
Gone With the Wind?
Citizen Kane.
Any Dan Brown novel. Bah, I’m sad I know that.
MX1: One summer, when I was ten or eleven… I was roller-skating with Howie and Steve.
PM8 - “War, war, war! This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream!”
That’s from Gone With the Wind, but that is not the opening line of the novel. I think it’s the first line of dialogue from the movie, though.
I’m really surprised nobody’s gotten most of mine yet, especially the next to last one. The others are somewhat obscure, but that one’s pretty well-known. It was made into a movie, even.
Maybe people will recognize these:
CCL 1: When the gate fell on top of me I knew I was really back home.
CCL 2: Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable.
CCL 3: Before you read this book, there are a few things you should know about me. I consider ironed sheets a health hazard.
CCL4: [character name] was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the [character name] twins were.
Mary Poppins?
Gone With the Wind (the novel, this time).
Correct!
Not Jude, but it is Hardy.
PM4 is Around the World in Eighty Days , isn’t it?
B1 Tancredi took his hands off the wheel again and waved them. “–so I envy you, Dr. Padway. Here in Rome we have still some work to do. But pah! It is all filling in little gaps. Nothing big, nothin new. And restoration work, Building contractor’s work. Again pah!”
Well, it was difficult to find any in my library that’s wouldn’t be impossible to guess. Although a couple of these are probably too easy for this thread…
Wa1: The music-room in the Governor’s House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant first movement of Locatelli’s C major quartet.
Wa2: I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeword that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
Wa3: On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the was wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen.
Wa4: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
CCL2: Dealing with Dragons. One of my absolute favorite books ever.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, of course! 
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien
I know it isn’t Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I only recognize the line from the “Novel Writing” bit on Monty Python.
So it must be Return of the Native.
Regards,
Shodan