First Line(s)-Game. - Page 2

elf_princess · 04-29-2002, 07:31 PM

ok... is it Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer? I'm not very sure on this one at all...

***Khamûl*** · 04-29-2002, 09:05 PM

Yes it is. I had always heard it, but didn't know until recently that it was an opening line to a book. Very good.

elf_princess · 04-29-2002, 10:24 PM

Thank you... let's see here...

"No one would have believed that in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."

should be fairly easy...

GandalfTheWhite · 04-29-2002, 10:58 PM

war of the worlds thank you very much

GandalfTheWhite · 04-29-2002, 11:00 PM

next one here it goes "This is a story about something that happned long ago when your grandfather was a child."

elf_princess · 04-30-2002, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GandalfTheWhite
war of the worlds thank you very much

Good job!!!

GandalfTheWhite · 05-01-2002, 12:42 PM

no one even gonna guess?

***azalea*** · 05-01-2002, 01:55 PM

It seems that I have read that book because the line is familiar, but I can't remember the book. I'll have to go look at my books. It would have to be something that takes place a long time ago, and if it's as I remember it is an old book, so it would probably take place when my great grandfather or great-great grandfather was a boy. Ahh, I just can't think!

Imladris · 05-01-2002, 02:28 PM

It looks as if you're going to have to drop us a hint.

sun-star · 05-01-2002, 03:49 PM

Is it one of the Narnia books by any chance?

elf_princess · 05-01-2002, 08:18 PM

Sorry! you have got me stumped with this one. I'll keep thinking about it and searching...

***Khamûl*** · 05-01-2002, 10:26 PM

I honestly have no clue. Doesn't ring any bells either. Hmmm...

Imladris · 05-02-2002, 03:04 AM

Ooh yes, I think you're right with the Narnia books, is it The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Knew I'd seen it somewhere before.

***azalea*** · 05-02-2002, 09:14 AM

The Magician's Nephew! Yea! I got it! I KNEW I had read it!

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

Imladris · 05-03-2002, 04:38 AM

Ulysses, Jame Joyce.
Know I'm right so I'll continue...
"On a very hot evening at the beginning of July a young man left his room at the top of a house in Carpenter Lane, went out into the street, and, as though unable to make up his mind, walked slowly in the direction of Kolushkin Brudge."

Imladris · 05-03-2002, 01:01 PM

No one even guessing?

elf_princess · 05-03-2002, 08:22 PM

I would guess but I have no clue! I'm sorry...

***azalea*** · 05-04-2002, 09:20 AM

I'd need a hint before I'd be able to start guessing.

Imladris · 05-05-2002, 04:19 AM

ok, I'll give a hint, it is a Russian book, written by a person with a hard to spell name. ( unless you speak Russian(or spell it!!!).

***azalea*** · 05-05-2002, 09:43 AM

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky!

Here's an easy one, but I love the book:
"All children, except one, grow up."

04-29-2002, 07:31 PM	#21
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	ok... is it Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer? I'm not very sure on this one at all... __________________ ~Life's unanswered question~ ¿Which came first... the chicken or the egg? ¿How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

04-29-2002, 09:05 PM	#22
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	Yes it is. I had always heard it, but didn't know until recently that it was an opening line to a book. Very good. __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

04-29-2002, 10:24 PM	#23
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	Thank you... let's see here... "No one would have believed that in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..." should be fairly easy... __________________ ~Life's unanswered question~ ¿Which came first... the chicken or the egg? ¿How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

05-01-2002, 02:28 PM	#29
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	It looks as if you're going to have to drop us a hint. __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-01-2002, 03:49 PM	#30
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	Is it one of the Narnia books by any chance? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

04-29-2002, 10:58 PM	#24
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	war of the worlds thank you very much

04-29-2002, 11:00 PM	#25
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	next one here it goes "This is a story about something that happned long ago when your grandfather was a child."

05-01-2002, 12:42 PM	#27
GandalfTheWhite Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 297	no one even gonna guess?

05-01-2002, 01:55 PM	#28
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	It seems that I have read that book because the line is familiar, but I can't remember the book. I'll have to go look at my books. It would have to be something that takes place a long time ago, and if it's as I remember it is an old book, so it would probably take place when my great grandfather or great-great grandfather was a boy. Ahh, I just can't think!

05-01-2002, 08:18 PM	#31
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	Sorry! you have got me stumped with this one. I'll keep thinking about it and searching... __________________ ~Life's unanswered question~ ¿Which came first... the chicken or the egg? ¿How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

05-01-2002, 10:26 PM	#32
*Khamûl* Slacker Warrior Admin Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,759	I honestly have no clue. Doesn't ring any bells either. Hmmm... __________________ "If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you." Gandalf to Pippin Psalm 107:31

05-02-2002, 03:04 AM	#33
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	Ooh yes, I think you're right with the Narnia books, is it The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Knew I'd seen it somewhere before. __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-02-2002, 09:14 AM	#34
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	The Magician's Nephew! Yea! I got it! I KNEW I had read it! "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

05-03-2002, 04:38 AM	#35
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	Ulysses, Jame Joyce. Know I'm right so I'll continue... "On a very hot evening at the beginning of July a young man left his room at the top of a house in Carpenter Lane, went out into the street, and, as though unable to make up his mind, walked slowly in the direction of Kolushkin Brudge." __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent." Last edited by Imladris : 05-03-2002 at 12:46 PM.

05-03-2002, 01:01 PM	#36
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	No one even guessing? __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-03-2002, 08:22 PM	#37
elf_princess Elven Warrior Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: la dee da Posts: 275	I would guess but I have no clue! I'm sorry... __________________ ~Life's unanswered question~ ¿Which came first... the chicken or the egg? ¿How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

05-04-2002, 09:20 AM	#38
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	I'd need a hint before I'd be able to start guessing.

05-05-2002, 04:19 AM	#39
Imladris Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 146	ok, I'll give a hint, it is a Russian book, written by a person with a hard to spell name. ( unless you speak Russian(or spell it!!!). __________________ "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

05-05-2002, 09:43 AM	#40
*azalea* Long lost mooter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,342	Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky! Here's an easy one, but I love the book: "All children, except one, grow up."

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