Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

[Zybahn]

I thought that one was pretty obvious.

Hmmm.... It is a translation.

[KeE]

Kafka? Das vervandlung or something like that?

[spiphany]

KeE: you're actually very close. The first line is a paraphrase of the title, but it's the other book with this title. Not Kafka's "Metamorphosis" but Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Someone want to post another first line?? All I have lying around here are German books which I doubt anyone here is familiar with...

[KeE]

So, I just missed by some 20 centuries?

[KeE]

I'll tempt you with another one, this should be simple:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

[clong]

Sounds like "The Raven"

[KeE]

Nevermore!
Of course it is. You got a qoute?

[clong]

Howsabout...

There was a boy called _____ ______ ______, and he almost deserved it.

[KeE]

And now I can't get that Johnny Cash song out of my head...

[Zybahn]

My apologies for letting this float around for so long, but I've been out of the country & otherwise quite busy.

KeE: you're actually very close. The first line is a paraphrase of the title, but it's the other book with this title. Not Kafka's "Metamorphosis" but Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

Absolutely correct. I'll award your Sherlock in a moment...

[clong]

Howsabout...

There was a boy called _____ ______ ______, and he almost deserved it.

How about a hint? This book offers a series of nautical adventures.

[spiphany]

This is part of a classic children's fantasy series, I think...

[clong]

you're getting warmer...

[KeE]

Narnia: The voyage of the dawn treader.
The almost deserved name being Eustace Clarence Scrubb.

[clong]

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is correct. You're up.

[KeE]

It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.

[KeE]

Time for a hint? This book has two rather well known and successful authors.

It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.

[KeE]

Yet an other hint: Most of the book is set in England. Among other things we get explained why the motorway system
is shaped like the omnious sigil of Odegra.

Time for a hint? This book has two rather well known and successful authors.

It was a nice day.
All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven so far, and rain hadn't been invented yet. But clouds massing east of Eden suggested that the first thunderstorm was on its way, and it was going to be a big one.

[MidasKnight]

No idea whatsoever.

[KeE]

Nope. That's not the title.

[clong]

Good Omens?

[KeE]

Good Omens?

Absolutely. Sorry for the delay btw. Will post you a sherlock soon.

[clong]

____________, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.

[MidasKnight]

Boing!

[Zelazny]

____________, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around its outer walls.

I'm fairly sure I know the answer to this, but I don't have my books handy to confirm. If there's no answer by tonight, I'll post