Which Book Opens With This Line?

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Which Book Opens With This Line?

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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.
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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!
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I got 8 too.
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12 for me, and I missed a couple I should have known.
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Which Book Opens With This Line?
It was a dark and stormy night.....

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10/17, but there were more than a few I didn't feel bad about not knowing/never reading.
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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.
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oldr_n_wsr wrote:
Which Book Opens With This Line?
It was a dark and stormy night.....

:nana

Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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!
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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

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I thought it was a book Snoopy never finished.
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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.
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9 correct here, with more WAGs than I'd like to admit...
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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.
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