Famous First Lines of Novels

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Bernard Wrangler		#141	[-]
Posts: 8345 (06/09/08 4:39 PM) this won't end well. Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	335. lamb?
Kunundrum		#142	[-]
Posts: 241 (06/09/08 4:55 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	332 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? 337 Life of Pie <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 x infinty
Fork		#143	[-]
Posts: 221 (06/09/08 5:10 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	39. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
Kunundrum		#144	[-]
Posts: 242 (06/09/08 5:11 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	38. duh! (<--- to self) War and Peace
hwamf		#145	[-]
Posts: 2177 (06/09/08 5:24 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	335. lamb? Check. 332 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? 337 Life of Pie <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 x infinty 332: Fraid not...older...an american classic. 337: Yes. 38. duh! (<--- to self) War and Peace Duh! : ) 39. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. That was bugging me so much I had to google it...strangely I never read it, but I know the line.
GodIsAnAtheist		#146	[-]
Posts: 4137 (06/09/08 6:01 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	kooyah wrote: GodIsAnAtheist wrote: I was implying that trying to read Macbeth is pretty much like trying to read a novel. Long, drawn out, never going to end, etc. What are you talking about? You must not read much or well. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's shortest plays and it's a very easy read. I've actually done 2 research papers on Macbeth. kthx
CBRetriever		#147	[-]
Posts: 18565 (06/09/08 7:42 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	336 is a haiku, but I don't know what book it starts
Driv		#148	[-]
Posts: 2957 (06/09/08 7:57 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	it can NOT be a haiku, because its not about the seasons
CBRetriever		#149	[-]
Posts: 18567 (06/09/08 8:04 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	haiku have to be about nature - bamboo groves are nature Basho's were all about nature old pond / a frog jumps / the sound of water isn't really seasonal
Driv		#150	[-]
Posts: 2958 (06/09/08 8:18 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Basho is a special case. If that poem was written by him, then I can accept it as haiku. Otherwise it's not haiku unless it has KIGO!!!!
CBRetriever		#151	[-]
Posts: 18569 (06/09/08 8:31 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	it is Basho I went and googled Basho immediately to find one that wasn't seasonal and there were quite a few. National Geographic did a nice piece on Bash recently alond with photos to illustrate his haiku. And what about tanka or renga? BTW, I'm not the haiku fan in this house, it's the Mr. And that haiku is from Cryptonomicon by Stephenson
JoeIdolisBack	New Quote	#152	[-]
Posts: 1140 (06/09/08 8:38 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I got one for you guys: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." Good luck.
Driv		#153	[-]
Posts: 2960 (06/09/08 8:43 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	tanka has a 5-7-5-7-7 form. and renga, i'm not completely sure about. i seem to recall something about renga being poems by different authors linked together.
CBRetriever		#154	[-]
Posts: 18572 (06/09/08 8:43 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	duh Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf would be my guess and no, I've never read it
JoeIdolisBack		#155	[-]
Posts: 1141 (06/09/08 8:48 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	its a good book.
CBRetriever		#156	[-]
Posts: 18575 (06/09/08 8:52 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Driv, you've exhausted my knowledge of haiku - I just remember Mr CBR using those terms
Cassidy666		#157	[-]
Posts: 7766 (06/09/08 9:09 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	zahadumguy wrote: 28. progris riport 1: martch 5, 1965. Flowers for Algernon (sp) or was it Charlie?? Yep. Flowers for Algernon. Charly was the movie. hwamf wrote: Enders Game 30. Yep. Just 32 is left to be identified of the ones I posted. Here's a hint: Children's book. Last Edited By: Cassidy666 06/09/08 9:13 PM. Edited 2 times.
Cassidy666		#158	[-]
Posts: 7767 (06/09/08 9:46 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	40. These are my New Year' resolutions: 1. I will help the blind across the road. 41. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. 42. It was the year they finally immanentized the eschaton. 43. That was when I saw the pendulum. 44. In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling starmists waver and part... 45. Whenever Henry Wilt took the dog for a walk, or, to be more accurate, when the dog took him, or, to be exact, when Mrs Wilt told them both to go and take themselves out of the house so that she could do her yoga exercises, he always took the same route. Last Edited By: Cassidy666 06/09/08 11:00 PM. Edited 4 times.
Bernard Wrangler		#159	[-]
Posts: 8346 (06/10/08 6:31 AM) this won't end well. Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	41. snowcrash?
hwamf		#160	[-]
Posts: 2178 (06/10/08 7:18 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	And that haiku is from Cryptonomicon by Stephenson crect

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