Round 2 scores, Round 3 vote, Round 4 line
Scores:
offensive_mango -- A scream pierced the twilight--a scream that seemed to emanate from the very bowels of Krynn itself.
alextiefling -- Caramon Majere looked up as the Inn of the Last Home came into view around the corner of the winding road.
Voted for by raycun and wwhyte.
inuitmonster -- Darak had been travelling across the blasted plains of Pnor for several days when he saw the Kobolds.
elcanguro -- Deep in a cavern under Lofty Crag, something was stirring.
Comment: I so want to vote for the fourth one
jeffr23 -- Even in the bustling common-room, the two strangers could not help but attract attention, her with her long, flowing golden hair and strange barbarian garb and him wearing scarcely anything at all on his powerful, muscled frame.
Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis - Flint Fireforge collapsed on a moss-covered boulder. Voted for by a_d_medievalist and jeffr23. Comment: I wish I was called "Flint Fireforge".
a_d_medievalist -- His face grim, Bern the Hunter slowly wiped his blade on the grass as he warily examined the wolf's corpse.
wwhyte -- "It is not right to fear the fall of night."
Voted for by stellanova and elcanguro.
raycun -- It was an odd group that trudged wearily into the inn that night, shunning the conversation around the fire but instead sitting at a quiet table where their unusual burden might perhaps go unremarked.
stellanova -- It was twilight in the groves of Kanandarel, and the cry of a Garenghi dragon echoed across the dales.Voted for by megolas and wirette. Comment: "Garenghi" sounds suspiciously like "Garth Marenghi"....
wirette -- The armour stood in the corner of the room, coated in rust, begging to be used once more.
Voted for by inuitmonster
megolas -- The tavern was thronged with drinkers but the Mage passed through them almost unnoticed; apart from one set of watchful eyes.Voted for by alextiefling and leedy. Comment: ... and is that semi-colon supposed to be in the last one?
Points for getting the right line: 1 each for a_d_medievalist and jeffr23
Points for people guessing your line: 1 for wirette, 2 each for alextiefling, wwhyte, stellanova and megolas
alextiefling: 4 + 2 + 0 = 6
stellanova: 3 + 2 + 0 = 5
wwhyte: 0 + 2 + 0 = 2
megolas: 0 + 2 + 0 = 2
wirette: 1 + 1 + 0 = 2
a_d_medievalist: 0 + 0 + 1 = 1
jeffr23: 0 + 0 + 1 = 1
inuitmonster: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
elcanguro: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
everyone else: 0
And now, in a change to the schedule, the lines for Book 3, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere:
- He noticed the blood first, tiny droplets leading him toward the huddled shape on the pavement.
- He usually ignored beggers.
- "Make sure you're home on time, Richard," said Victoria wearily.
- No need to take the Tube home, it was a lovely evening.
- "Of course I've confirmed the restaurant, darling", Richard lied.
- Richard looked up from the files on his desk and out at the London skyline.
- Richard Mayhew couldn't understand why nobody else seemed to see the girl.
- Richard Mayhew shared with most Londoners the sixth sense which enabled him to avoid striking obstacles on even the most crowded of sidewalks.
- Richard Mayhew was not having a very good day.
- She had been running for four days now, a harum-scarum tumbling flight through passages and tunnels.
- The day my life changed should have been a day like any other - except it wasn't.
- There are silent places beneath London, and not-so-silent.
The book for round 4 will be A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson, better known as a travel writer. It's a tour around the history of science, bringing out the things that make it astounding and trying to reset the balance of a million lousy science teachers (this isn't the blurb - I really love this book and would recommend it to anyone).
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Neary Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
You're looking for the first line of Section I ("Lost In The Cosmos"), Chapter 1 ("How To Build A Universe")
Poll Round 3 vote, Round 4 line
Deadline is Wednesday evening.