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Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:05 am
by Econoline
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/ ... o-you-know

I got 13 of 17 (a few were guesses), and there's one that I missed that I really should have known.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:57 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Well done - I got eight. It was odd that when I hesitated between two choices, I invariably plumped for the wrong one. I'm afraid that pretty much anything after 1900 I got wrong unless by accident. Fun quiz - thanks!

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:20 am
by Gob
I got 8 too.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 11:45 am
by Guinevere
12 for me, and I missed a couple I should have known.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:09 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Which Book Opens With This Line?
It was a dark and stormy night.....

:nana

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:28 pm
by Sue U
10/17, but there were more than a few I didn't feel bad about not knowing/never reading.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:34 pm
by Guinevere
Sue U wrote:10/17, but there were more than a few I didn't feel bad about not knowing/never reading.
Only a couple of throw-away books in the list, I thought. And even those I've read some, because its always interesting to see what pop culture finds amusing.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:06 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
oldr_n_wsr wrote:
Which Book Opens With This Line?
It was a dark and stormy night.....

:nana

Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Next?

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:14 pm
by Sue U
Guinevere wrote:Only a couple of throw-away books in the list, I thought. And even those I've read some, because its always interesting to see what pop culture finds amusing.
Oh you sweet dear. Pop culture doesn't read!

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:59 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
MajGenl.Meade wrote:
oldr_n_wsr wrote:
Which Book Opens With This Line?
It was a dark and stormy night.....

:nana

Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Next?
I thought it was a book Snoopy never finished.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:08 pm
by Sue U
oldr_n_wsr wrote: I thought it was a book Snoopy never finished.
No no no, it's A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle, one of my favoritest books ever.

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:32 pm
by kristina
9 correct here, with more WAGs than I'd like to admit...

Re: Which Book Opens With This Line?

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:45 pm
by Guinevere
Sue U wrote:
Guinevere wrote:Only a couple of throw-away books in the list, I thought. And even those I've read some, because its always interesting to see what pop culture finds amusing.
Oh you sweet dear. Pop culture doesn't read!
Not true -- how do you think the various Grey "books" got so "popular." And the Twilight series. Not to mention the entire career of Jackie Collins.