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Book meme gacked from Rob
Jan. 5th, 2006 05:11 pmNow this one I like. If only I were more well-read! I'm using six here, since a couple are pretty obvious.
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.) Bobby Garfield's father had been one of those fellows who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by the age of forty-five or so.
2.) I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you with all my titles yet) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot" or "That Claudius" or "Claudius the Stammerer" or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
3.) Towards the end of November, during a warm spell, at around nine o'clock in the morning, a train of the Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching Petersburg at full steam.
4.) He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and the lark and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness.
5.) Alexi Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from out district, Fyodor Pvlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place.
6.) RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarentees perfect vision.
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.) Bobby Garfield's father had been one of those fellows who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by the age of forty-five or so.
2.) I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you with all my titles yet) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot" or "That Claudius" or "Claudius the Stammerer" or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled.
3.) Towards the end of November, during a warm spell, at around nine o'clock in the morning, a train of the Petersburg-Warsaw line was approaching Petersburg at full steam.
4.) He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and the lark and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness.
5.) Alexi Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from out district, Fyodor Pvlovich Karamazov, well known in his own day (and still remembered among us) because of his dark and tragic death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago and which I shall speak of in its proper place.
6.) RIGHT HERE AND NOW, as an old friend used to say, we are in the fluid present, where clear-sightedness never guarentees perfect vision.
