Opening Sentence Game!

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    Originally Posted By TomSawyer

    Usual game rules apply...

    In this game, we all try to guess what book an opening sentence belongs to.

    For example, if my first challenge is "Call me Ishmael," the correct answer would be "Moby Dick."

    Please use books that people may have actually read - don't use the first sentence from your Chemistry textbook or some obscure book from distant past.
     
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    Originally Posted By TomSawyer

    Here's the first one. It's probably pretty easy.

    "Even in high summer, Tintagel was a haunted place; Igraine, Lady of Duke Gorlois, looked out over the sea from the headland."
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    "The Mists of Avalon" - Marion Zimmer Bradley
     
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    Originally Posted By TomSawyer

    Yep - you're up.
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
     
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    Originally Posted By eww4

    A Tale of Two Cities
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    You got it!
     
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    Originally Posted By Disneyland55

    Once upon a time.

    ;) j/k
     
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    Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo

    Almost any fairy tale movie (and always ending with "...and they lived happily ever after" )
     
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    Originally Posted By Disneyland55

    he he, you got it!!!

    Eww4, are you gonna go?

    Maybe you should go Wolfy...
     
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    Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo

    (Don't mind if I do)

    On a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell upon Tunstall Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour.
     
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    Originally Posted By fabdisbabe

    The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stephenson.

    "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

    Fab
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    "Rebecca", Daphne du Maurier
     
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    Originally Posted By fabdisbabe

    Bingo. Your turn.

    Fab
     
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    Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo

    ("*Ahem* I was supposed to tell you, Fabdisbabe, that you were right about 'The Black Arrow' so next time please wait ok ?")
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.
     
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    Originally Posted By Lukegirl

    Wild guess here....1984?
     
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    Originally Posted By kyle2me

    Very good! You're up!
     
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    Originally Posted By Lukegirl

    " Maman died today" ....and no,thats not a typo.
     
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    Originally Posted By Lukegirl

    Oh God,I killed this topic!
     
    #20 See Post, Aug 3, 2002
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