Round 1 scores, Round 2 vote, Round 3 line

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First, Ye scores on ye doors.

• elcanguro -- A bell clanged deafeningly somewhere in the distance.
  
• inuitmonster -- Even in Paris, hotel rooms have a quality which makes sleep difficult. Voted for by jeffr23. Comments: Both "Even in Paris..." and "Strangely..." are far too good!
  
• wwhyte -- Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon stared at the policeman in the lobby of his hotel. Voted for by wwhyte and a_d_medievalist
  
• several_bees -- Langdon stared intently across the murky waters of the Seine to where the Louvre rose from its banks with elegant grandeur.
  
• jeffr23 -- Noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu awoke to the unwelcome sounds of her telephone.
  
• Dan Brown -- Robert Langdon awoke slowly. Voted for by elcanguro and wirette
  
• stellanova -- Robert Langdon had just fallen asleep when the phone rang. Voted for by offensive_mango alextiefling and inuitmonster
  
• offensive_mango -- Robert Langdon sat in the Paris cafe, steaming coffee by his side, and read the morning's headlines.
  
• alextiefling -- Robert Langdon stirred restlessly as the telephone in his Paris Ritz bedroom rang for a second time. Voted for by stellanova megolas raycun and nhw
  
• raycun -- Robert Langdon strode confidently towards the imposing lectern.
  
• leedy -- Strangely, the blood wasn't the first thing that Robert noticed. Comments: Both "Even in Paris..." and "Strangely..." are far too good!
  
• wirette -- The sight at the Louvre was a shock to see.
  
• b_sara -- The unfamiliar tones of a strange telephone pierced his sleeping psyche and as he stretched his arm to answer it, his awakening brain registered the darkness outside.
  
• a_d_medievalist -- Well-known Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon looked up from his review of Eco's latest work and willed the phone to stop ringing. Comments: "The last one caused me a great deal of mirth. Sadly, too funny to be the real one." "Har har, that final one is very self-aware!" "I wish DVC really did reference Eco, but that would be too much to ask." "All are appropriately god-awful, but the reference to Eco really is taking the piss"
  

Points for getting the right line: 1 each to wirette and elcanguro
Points for people voting for your line: 4 for alextiefling, 3 for stellanova, 1 each for wwhyte and jeffr23
Points deducted for voting for your own line: 1 for wwhyte

alextiefling: 4 + 0 = 4
stellanova: 3 + 0 = 3
inuitmonster: 1 + 0 = 1
wirette: 0 + 1 = 1
elcanguro: 0 + 1 = 1
wwhyte: 1 - 1 = 0
everyone else: 0


The book for round three is Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, also available as a comic and presumably as a DVD of the TV series.

Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...


Poll Round 2 vote, Round 3 line

Oh yeah, deadline! Monday evening, please.