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You've heard of Name That Tune?
Well, this is Name That Novel!
 Here's how it works!
I give you the first few words and/or lines of a novel, and you telll me the name!
I promise to use well known novels, either the literary classics or novels which have made the New York times Best Seller list!
 
1 point for each correct answer!
 
The winner gets............oh, I don't know, we'll negotiate!
 
Here's are the first five;
 
1. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California."
 
2. "Dusk-of a summernight.
          And the tall walls of the commercial heart of an American city of perhaps 400,000 inhabitants-such walls as in time may linger as a mere fable."
 
3. "Some notable sight was drawing the passengers, both men and women to the window; and therefore I rose and crossed the car to see what it was."
 
4. "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."
 
5. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
 


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  • pickersplock said on Nov 19, 2007....
    Oh, and you're on your honor!
    No fair googling the phrases!!!
  • the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I'm a little embarrassed to say that I only know the last one. Pride and Prejudice?

    ~Infernal
  • Fallyn said on Nov 19, 2007....
    the only one i know is 3. The Virginian.
  • pickersplock said on Nov 19, 2007....
    1 point for each of you!
  • Fallyn said on Nov 19, 2007....
    woo hoo!

  • pickersplock said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I'm adding three more!
     
    6. "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."
     
    7. "A throng of bearded men, in sad colored garments and steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of the wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak and studded with iron spikes."
     
    8. "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than..........."
     
    I had to cut off that last part, or it would be too easy!
  • lfbno7 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I knew that 5 had to be Jane Austen, but since I read five of her books one after the other, I didn't remember that it was her most famous one, Pride and Prejudice. Number 8 would be Great Expectations by Dickens. I guess the most famous opening line to a novel is Call me Ishmael.
  • Fallyn said on Nov 19, 2007....
    7, the scarlet letter


  • lfbno7 said on Nov 19, 2007....
    I really dislike that book, Scarlet Letter. I was fine with it until the end, when Hester left her daughter and grandchild in England and returned to America to be at the site of her disgrace. For that odd ending I decided that Nathaniel Hawthorne has a screw loose. Hester left her beloved daughter and grandchild in order to do WHAT????!!!! I decided that Hawthorne sucks. What kind of betrayal is that? In another post, someone asked us to define love, and I defined it as not abandoning someone. Actions speak louder than words, and for me the bottom line is not abandoning someone, the rest being bullshit. And here's Hester Prynne abandoning her daughter and grandchild to do what? I consider Hawthorne a hack writer, particularly since I also read a number of his idiotic short stories, many of which are the same.
  • Fallyn said on Nov 20, 2007....
    i completely agree about love being not abandoning someone.

    i haven't actually read all of the scarlet letter.....just enough to remember the first line.
  • merlin said on Nov 20, 2007....
    number is charles dickins, great expectations:-)
  • pickersplock said on Nov 20, 2007....
    7's got 1 point and Fallyn has 2 points.
    Merlin, that's the correct answer, but 7 got it first!
    Hawthorne isn't one of my favorites either 7.  He's a little word happy for my taste.
  • pickersplock said on Nov 20, 2007....
    4 out of 8, not bad!
  • merlin said on Nov 20, 2007....
    by the way this is a great post:-)
  • pickersplock said on Nov 20, 2007....
    So Fallyn wins!
    And here are all of the answers;
     
    1. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
     
    2. American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
     
    3. The Virginian - Owen Wister
     
    4. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
     
    5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
     
    6. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
     
    7. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
     
    8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • Fallyn said on Nov 20, 2007....
    was there a prize? *grin*
  • lfbno7 said on Nov 20, 2007....
    Oh damn, I should have known 6. That was when the retarded boy was looking through the fence at the people playing golf. But he just said "hitting" and I didn't connect it to golf.
  • Fallyn said on Nov 20, 2007....
    hey, i have a couple if we want to keep the game going?
  • lfbno7 said on Nov 20, 2007....
    k
  • pickersplock said on Nov 20, 2007....
    Go for it!

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