First lines of 10 favorite novels
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rosawThis really fascinated me, I have loved reading all the people contributing to this meme. I have that 100 things about me list that I've been working on for about 3 weeks. I'm on number 18. Which is kinda pathetic. Especially since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tzikeh has two lists of 100. Her energy and spirit amaze me, I wish I could borrow some. I loved reading people's 100 things but when faced with the blank word doc, just couldn't think of anything to put on that dreaded list. Pathetic, eh?
This, however, is a different story (ha ha -- I'm a dork). This was really fun. I had to look all over my apartment for well-worn, well-loved novels and, while I'm a little dusty and digusted with the state of my bookshelves, I have a list.
10. There were five of us -- Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
9. Certain people in Ilmorog, our Ilmorog, told me that this story was too disgraceful, too shameful, that it should be concealed in the depths of everlasting darkness. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (sometimes also James Ngugi)
8. This is the story of a real woman. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
7. Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. I am a botanist. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
5. It was a nice day. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
4. On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of Roman de la Rose, was in a wild state of excitement. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
3. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. There was a wall. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
1. I was fifteen years old when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
This was really fun, I can't wait to read more people's lists tomorrow.
PS Killa, if you're out there, you really made my day today. Thank you!
tzikeh has two lists of 100. Her energy and spirit amaze me, I wish I could borrow some. I loved reading people's 100 things but when faced with the blank word doc, just couldn't think of anything to put on that dreaded list. Pathetic, eh?This, however, is a different story (ha ha -- I'm a dork). This was really fun. I had to look all over my apartment for well-worn, well-loved novels and, while I'm a little dusty and digusted with the state of my bookshelves, I have a list.
10. There were five of us -- Carruthers and the new recruit and myself, and Mr. Spivens and the verger. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
9. Certain people in Ilmorog, our Ilmorog, told me that this story was too disgraceful, too shameful, that it should be concealed in the depths of everlasting darkness. Devil on the Cross by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (sometimes also James Ngugi)
8. This is the story of a real woman. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi
7. Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. I am a botanist. In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
5. It was a nice day. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
4. On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of Roman de la Rose, was in a wild state of excitement. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
3. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. There was a wall. The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
1. I was fifteen years old when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
This was really fun, I can't wait to read more people's lists tomorrow.
PS Killa, if you're out there, you really made my day today. Thank you!
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Date: 2003-01-28 11:14 am (UTC)Heh - rather than energy and spirit, one could say ego and time on my hands. But, be that as it may:
::bottles up a bunch of energy and spirit and sends to you post-haste, with hugs::
Wish I could, actually.
And re: ten lines - I almost included Good Omens and To Say Nothin of the Dog. There are so *many* I almost included. It's an impossible meme, in the end.
I look forward to reading your 100 things, no matter when you post them.