Name the book, from the first line . . .

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by troutman

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

I had to Google that one and am soooo mad at myself for not getting it. Good one.

[agulati]

Originally Posted by troutman

The Great Gatsby.

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

Frankenstein

“I’ve never been what you’d call a crying man.”

[Poe969]

"I'm pretty much F__KED"

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Poe969

"I'm pretty much F__KED"

The Martian?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Come on, now... We can do better.

The greatest English novel (come at me Pilgrim's Progress gang)...

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

And a non-great-literary work, but a great opening line...

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

And the big one...

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing — that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind — and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost — Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly, I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.

Let's hear it.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Arsenal14

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Anna Karenina

“ The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all.”

[CaptainCrunch]

Great book Tinker, tailor Soldier Spy.


"This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can change it.


It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is the blurred line between our best and our worst.


It is a story of the end of an age"

[Timbo]

See Spot run.

[OMG!WTF!]

Hard, medium, and over easy....

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest

IN a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Not sure about the other two, but the last one is Don Quixote.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Digne since 1806.

[troutman]

OMG! - I'm kicking myself for not getting the second one without google. I was going to pose that book too.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Second is Heart of Darkness. No clue about the first.

[TheIronMaiden]

“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.”

[CaptainCrunch]

The Sun also rises by Hemmingway.

You are walking down a country road. It is a quiet afternoon. You look up and far, far down the road you see someone walking toward you. You are surprised to have noticed someone so far away. But you keep walking, expecting nothing more than a friendly nod as you pass. He gets closer. You see he has bright orange hair. He is closer- a white sating suit spotted with colored dots. Closer-a painted white face and red lips. You and he are fifty yards apart. You, and a full-fledged clown holding a bicycle horn are twenty yards apart. You approach on the lonely country road. You nod. He honks and passes.

[DownInFlames]

I don’t know any of the remaining quotes but here’s a couple that are easy but possibly tricky:

The sweat was lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

[troutman]

Trainspotting.

"????'s mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.”

[OMG!WTF!]

I think the second one is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep but only because of the character name.

[OMG!WTF!]

What about this one...

MY FIRST INDICATION THAT food was something other than a substance one stuffed in one's face when hungry-like filling up at a gas station-came after fourth-grade elementary school.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I don’t know any of the remaining quotes but here’s a couple that are easy but possibly tricky:

Do Androids dream of electric sheep.

Here's mine:

THE SMALL BOYS came early to the hanging.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

What about this one...

Kitchen Confidential

It was seven minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed.