First sentences book meme
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fajrdrako, aka Mistress of Tricksiness:
1. Choose five of your all time favorite books
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.
1. It was the first time he had ever heard the clock strike ten at night.
2. When I reached ‘C’ Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
3. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.
4. A sea of mist drifted through the cloud forest, soft, grey, luminescent.
5. He walks down the street. The asphalt reels by him.
No Dunnett, O'Brian or Tolkien - that would just be making it too easy. *g*. Two lots of grey mist - strange coincidence, that. And the last one is two sentences, both really short - what can I say, I was feeling generous...
Go on. Go on, guess!
ETA: That's actually from the prologue for No. 5. First sentence of the first chapter is:
"... like our bullock, Jack. Bugger'll be on the old age pension before he's killed."
That's not very helpful, is it? I didn't choose it for its obscurity, promise!
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fajrdrako, aka Mistress of Tricksiness:1. Choose five of your all time favorite books
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.
1. It was the first time he had ever heard the clock strike ten at night.
2. When I reached ‘C’ Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
3. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.
4. A sea of mist drifted through the cloud forest, soft, grey, luminescent.
5. He walks down the street. The asphalt reels by him.
No Dunnett, O'Brian or Tolkien - that would just be making it too easy. *g*. Two lots of grey mist - strange coincidence, that. And the last one is two sentences, both really short - what can I say, I was feeling generous...
Go on. Go on, guess!
ETA: That's actually from the prologue for No. 5. First sentence of the first chapter is:
"... like our bullock, Jack. Bugger'll be on the old age pension before he's killed."
That's not very helpful, is it? I didn't choose it for its obscurity, promise!
