Books

[moneysucks]

This has been popping up on friends' LJs. I like it. Let's see if I can do it without having print copies of all the books here:

Choose five of your all-time favorite books. (It's not gonna be five. It's gonna be some random number. Bear with me) Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal. Don't reveal the author

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[hitokiri_neko]

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

I remember this one! Ms. Haug had us read it in English senior year. Anyway, it's One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Good book, that.

[ra1330]

I think I'm correct on these:
6 is Dune by Frank Herbert
8 is Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11 is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (although I was fairly certain that was an unregarded yellow sun, so I could be wrong)

[semer]

Also, it is indeed sun. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0345453743/ref=sib_fs_top/103-9649333-7400632?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00M&checkSum=VjyLI1N2Ytn4O8Qz9N4uy8mUtGN6tGqhd8C8BdQsO4A%3D#reader-link)

[moneysucks]

Haha, oops. My roommate was narrating that one to me, as I didn't know it and didn't have the book handy.

[yellow_rose]

this is a fun game. you should reveal the answers later. my guesses:

1. zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
3. 100 years of solitude
8. catcher in the rye
11. the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy!!

ok, that's all i think i know.

[kelofmindelan14]

I'm pretty sure #12 is The Giver.

[seafoam9]

Becca, you're right. Also, does Herriges know who you are?

[kelofmindelan14]

um...maybe. we've met once, i believe, at the math meet where someone flipped over the railing. i vaguely remember talking about telescopes? or something like that.

[semer]

Yeah, 8 was so obvious it hurt. Hehehe. Good ol' Houlden Caulfield... and 11, well, yes, that too. :)