Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company -- for he did all the talking."
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court' One of those books High School teachers are always trying to convince you are funny, and you don't belive them, 'cause it's not. Then you grow up and it IS very very funny.
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 *whew*. I thought I was going to have to give you a virtual smackdown for saying Connecticut Yankee wasn't funny. Good thing I read all the way through first! lol. Just Kidding. I wouldn't smack you down even if you didn't think it was funny. I'd just mercilessly harass you verbally. Not kidding this time...okay maybe I am. Let's move on, shall we? Your turn!
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I'm rereading harry potter at the moment, but all those first lines are way to easy. So.... I am by birth a Genevese; and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I obviously made this too hard. So, from the same book, the first paragraph of chapter five. "It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs."
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Ok, straying away from books. First line of the pilot episode: "There's nothing to tell! He's just some guy I work with!"
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP I think it's the first line of the friends series... but I'm not sure.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x You are correct!! I love that show...and catch reruns when I can. They just re-started the series on our local Fox station.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Okay, so... hmmm.... (Can you believe this is all one sentence?) "Mrs. --- lived just where the --- main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old --- place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached --- it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. --- door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. --- was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof."
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Greeeaaat. lol. It's the first line of a movie. "With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europed turned hopefully, or deserately toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up."
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Uh, huh. It's a lot better coming from the deep-voiced narrator.
Originally Posted By alexbook Wow. I was guessing! Try this book: "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get." ----- Y'all might enjoy this thread on a book discussion board I read: <a href="http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=11079" target="_blank">http://www.librarything.com/ta lktopic.php?topic=11079</a>
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 Hmm...That really sounds familiar. Ugh! That's gonna bother me now, because I can't think of what it is.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP One of my favorite books of all time-- Ender's Game. One of the most interesting things about this book is how well it predicted how well email would work, and even the web. Very good for a book published in the mid-80s.
