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novin_ha1. Choose 10 books that you like.
2. Write down the first sentence of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
All in English; one is the first sentence of a short story, and one that is not the first in the collection, but I had no access to the book itself. I don't have all that many books with me here, so forgive me if the selection is not necessarily all that perfect. XY stands for the name of a character too recognizable to include.
1. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
(or the poem that comes earlier:
These things are there. The garden and the tree
The serpent at its root, the fruit of gold
The woman in the shadow of the boughs
The running water and the grassy space.) A.S. Byatt's Possession, guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
noelia_g
2. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, guessed bydark_vanessa, shiv5468 and alienor77310
3. XY was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. - Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind!, guessed byzaleszczotek
4. It.was.me.and.Jamieson.
Just us. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, guessed bysubstancja
5. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, guessed byzaleszczotek.
6. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters indeed, guessed byzaleszczotek.
7. "What will we do, Prinado? Why, we will perish. We will all die, and the Land will die."A Game of You (Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, guessed bynoelia_g
8. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, guessed byshiv5468.
9. One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father. On Beauty by Zadie Smith, guessed throughnoelia_g and zaleszczotek's collective effort, I'd say.
10. One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, guessed bydark_vanessa ;>
Have fun.
2. Write down the first sentence of each of those books.
3. Let other people try to figure out the titles.
4. Cross off books as they are guessed, let us know the correct answers and who guessed them.
All in English; one is the first sentence of a short story, and one that is not the first in the collection, but I had no access to the book itself. I don't have all that many books with me here, so forgive me if the selection is not necessarily all that perfect. XY stands for the name of a character too recognizable to include.
1. The book was thick and black and covered with dust.
(or the poem that comes earlier:
These things are there. The garden and the tree
The serpent at its root, the fruit of gold
The woman in the shadow of the boughs
The running water and the grassy space.) A.S. Byatt's Possession, guessed by
noelia_g2. Last night I dreamed I went to Manderlay again. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, guessed by
dark_vanessa, shiv5468 and alienor773103. XY was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. - Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind!, guessed by
zaleszczotek4. It.was.me.and.Jamieson.
Just us. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh, guessed by
substancja 5. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. White Teeth by Zadie Smith, guessed by
zaleszczotek.6. My name, in those days, was Susan Trinder. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters indeed, guessed by
zaleszczotek.7. "What will we do, Prinado? Why, we will perish. We will all die, and the Land will die."A Game of You (Sandman) by Neil Gaiman, guessed by
noelia_g8. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, guessed by
shiv5468.9. One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father. On Beauty by Zadie Smith, guessed through
noelia_g and zaleszczotek's collective effort, I'd say.10. One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. Company of Wolves by Angela Carter, guessed by
dark_vanessa ;>Have fun.
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Date: 2010-03-30 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 06:53 pm (UTC)5. White Teeth...?
6. Fingersmith!
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Date: 2010-03-30 06:55 pm (UTC)(Ja bym nie zgadła, nie mam w ogóle pamięci do imion XD)
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Date: 2010-03-30 06:59 pm (UTC)Fingersmith jeszcze przede mną, ale wzięłam ostatnio od przyjaciółki i zdążyłam zajrzeć (a przedtem się sporo nasłuchałam), stąd zgadłam ;)
Jestem też prawie pewna, że znam 2., ale niczego więcej nie kojarzę.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:06 pm (UTC)Ale to niech ktoś sobie zgadnie.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:02 pm (UTC)(IDEK, naprawdę bardzo lubię tę książkę.)
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:04 pm (UTC)Ja kiedyś spróbuję. Na razie (próbowałam Trainspotting) Welsh niezbyt mnie przekonuje.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:03 pm (UTC)And that's about it...
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:03 pm (UTC)8. Wide Sargasso Sea
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 07:37 pm (UTC)1. is, I think, Possession. I never finished reading it, because I lost the book somewhere (and by lost I mean, lent to someone and never got back)... but I kind of love the movie...
9. I have no idea, because it reminds me of Howard's End, but it can't be, cuz, ya know, Jerome and e-mails.
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Date: 2010-03-30 07:40 pm (UTC)And you're very much right about the other two. (Yay, I was sort of embarrassed about Sandman not getting guessed yet.)
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Date: 2010-03-30 08:00 pm (UTC)I was surprised no one guessed Sandman :D
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Date: 2010-03-30 09:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 09:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 09:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-30 09:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-31 11:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-31 12:10 pm (UTC)(To ta dyskusja o podobieństwach do Howards End striggerowała mi pamięć - lubię Forstera i olśniło mnie, że niektóre sceny z "O pięknie" rzeczywiście bardzo przypominają różne z Howards End! Poszukam sobie potem recenzji, zaciekawiło mnie to.)