My shot at the book meme
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sarlania's book meme. Arranged in chronological order for esmerelda_t's benefit ;) And I agree with _likimeya it's really hard to choose books with first sentences that aren't too obscure or that don't immediately give the game away!
Rules:
1. 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.
1. Attend, we have heard of the thriving of the throne of Denmark, how the folk-kings flourished in former days, how those royal aethelings earned that glory. Beowulf trans Michael Alexander guessed bynodbear.
2. It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. Le Morte D'Arthur Thomas Malory guessed bynodbear.
3. I was in delightful company: the lady who sat facing me across the massive Renaissance fireplace was none other than Venus; she was no demi-mondiane who had taken a pseudonym to wage war upon the masculine sex, but the goddess of love in person.
4. At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov guessed bynodbear
5. I propose to speak about fairy stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Tree and Leaf by JRR Tolkien guessed by_likimeya
6. I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.
7. "Repeat after me," said the parson. Hornblower and the Hotsupr by CS Forester guessed bybrewsternorth
8. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle guessed bysarlania
9. After Farmer Flint of the middle valley had died, his widow stayed on at the farm house. Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin guessed byrosiespark
10. In the mid-eighteenth century, in one of his instructive letters to his son, Lord Chesterfield wrote, "Dress is a very foolish thing, yet it is a very foolish thing for a man not to be well dressed according to his rank and way of life". Dressed to Kill by Amy Miller guessed byesmerelda_t
sarlania's book meme. Arranged in chronological order for esmerelda_t's benefit ;) And I agree with _likimeya it's really hard to choose books with first sentences that aren't too obscure or that don't immediately give the game away!Rules:
1. 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.
1. Attend, we have heard of the thriving of the throne of Denmark, how the folk-kings flourished in former days, how those royal aethelings earned that glory. Beowulf trans Michael Alexander guessed by
nodbear.2. It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. Le Morte D'Arthur Thomas Malory guessed by
nodbear.3. I was in delightful company: the lady who sat facing me across the massive Renaissance fireplace was none other than Venus; she was no demi-mondiane who had taken a pseudonym to wage war upon the masculine sex, but the goddess of love in person.
4. At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov guessed by
nodbear5. I propose to speak about fairy stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Tree and Leaf by JRR Tolkien guessed by
_likimeya6. I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.
7. "Repeat after me," said the parson. Hornblower and the Hotsupr by CS Forester guessed by
brewsternorth8. In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle guessed by
sarlania9. After Farmer Flint of the middle valley had died, his widow stayed on at the farm house. Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin guessed by
rosiespark10. In the mid-eighteenth century, in one of his instructive letters to his son, Lord Chesterfield wrote, "Dress is a very foolish thing, yet it is a very foolish thing for a man not to be well dressed according to his rank and way of life". Dressed to Kill by Amy Miller guessed by
esmerelda_t
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Date: 2010-04-06 11:24 pm (UTC)This is Beowulf in Michael Alexander's brilliant version
and #2 is Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur- another big favourite
but after that I get distinctly less capable...
back to my list -though as to whether I'll get it posted...
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Date: 2010-04-07 08:37 am (UTC)Right on Malory too! Well done :)
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Date: 2010-04-07 09:10 am (UTC)I wasn't pointing out you were cheating( honest, the hwaet! was Old English enthusiasm, as well as the only bit I can remember in the original. Now I feel like a smug Horatio getting his navigational maths right!)
But I'll have the extra points all the same...
even if they are smug -midshipman -about- to- get -a -dunking points.
(Sneaks off to create another Archie icon and ponder how to get book meme looking at its best.)
Anyway, my book meme is about to go public and I think I have cheated there too- together with the fact that I can't find a single age of sail book that I don't think you'd fail to guess within about point of a 2 second...
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Date: 2010-04-07 09:14 am (UTC)No need to answer this necessarily!
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Date: 2010-04-07 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 10:23 am (UTC)Meanwhile have just looked up the Dressed to Kill links - I need to get that book and now this minute. Woe the easy perils of Amazon one click- its arriving tomorrow !!
And as for boat cloaks... sneaks off to create another icon
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Date: 2010-04-06 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 08:38 am (UTC)Don't ask me how I knew that...
Well obviously because it's a completely brilliant book!
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Date: 2010-04-06 11:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 08:41 am (UTC)I can guarantee you have read at least one of these ;)
therefore fear they are not in chronological order! :P
*Affronted*!! I checked wikipedia specially for the publication dates!
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Date: 2010-04-07 08:57 am (UTC)*thinks* The only thing that springs to mind...is 10. Dressed to Kill?
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Date: 2010-04-07 08:59 am (UTC)Huzzah for uniform porn! ;)
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Date: 2010-04-07 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 10:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 09:16 am (UTC)Just so you know: I've read The very hungry Caterpillar, too. See, another common interest! *g* And Hornblower and the Hotspur, of course, but the rest - no idea.
Dressed to kill sounds interesting!
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Date: 2010-04-07 09:32 am (UTC)I've read The very hungry Caterpillar
Second hurray of the morning for the hungry caterpillar!
Dressed to kill sounds interesting!
Dressed to kill is compulsory reading for all naval fetishists. It's _very_ pretty.
PS one of these books was originally written in German and another in Russian, if that gives you any clues...
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Date: 2010-04-07 10:05 am (UTC)And my oldest goddaughter is now on her PhD but her copy of The Caterpillar which I used to read to hee has gone with her to Heidelberg as it goes everywhere - the original body has beem twice replaced
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Date: 2010-04-07 10:22 am (UTC)Btw regarding Battlestar Galactica, see
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Date: 2010-04-07 10:13 am (UTC)Ah, that’s why I couldn’t name the book: I haven’t read it. But I’ve seen so many Tolkien quotes posted online and read discussions of his works during my LotR phase and some things have stuck.
I don’t recognise the German book, shame on me!
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Date: 2010-04-07 10:17 am (UTC)I don’t recognise the German book, shame on me!
The author is actually Austrian and the title of the book is possibly more famous as the title of a song. I suspect you haven't read the book but its title is rather famous...
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Date: 2010-04-07 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 01:20 pm (UTC)*stupid*
Well, at least you got one of mine! And a tricky one at that. I didn't get a single one of yours *stoopider*
I'll give it a day and if no one gets the last three I'll fill them in myself.
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Date: 2010-04-07 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-07 08:19 pm (UTC)