Yet *Another* Quote Game [First line game]

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:50 pm

The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett (?).

I liked it too. I won a copy of it along with Swallows and Amazons for a Fancy Dress competition when I was about 8. It was amazing. I reread it a few months ago: my memories of it were so vivid, and unusually the book lived up to my memory.

just confirm that before I do a quote though. (and, as warning, it may not turn up 'till tomorrow if I am right)

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:14 pm

You are 100% correct. I loved that book!

I also have very vivid memories of the story and the scenes.

I wanted to live in a house like that!!!

Post by **Kvetch** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:14 pm

not if you had to put up with the weather (as I do) you wouldn't.

anyway:

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

rather an appropriate title I think.

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:46 pm

Umm Guess as I haven't read the book - only a short story based on the same planet/civilisation.

Ursula Le Guin - Left hand of darkness.

It was the word Truth that sparked in my Brain.

se

I'm at work today so you'll have to wait for another title - assuming I'm not horribly wrong in the first place!

[edit: can't spell civilisation!]

Post by **Kvetch** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 4:55 pm

you're up.

well done sE

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:55 pm

Okay - well I love this book, and I found the opening lines online - so no googling!!

sE

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, at a time when Western civilization was declining too rapidly for comfort and yet too slowly to be very exciting, much of the world sat on the edge of an increasingly expensive theater seat, waiting - with various combinations of dread, hope, and ennui - for something momentous to occur.

Post by **Ghost** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:44 am

I was frustrated so I googled, not to get the Sherlock â€“ just to see what the book was. You can read about 15 pages on Amazon. Looks like an interesting book. sE â€“ after someone guess the answer or everyone gives up you should write a review.

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:41 pm

It was a long time ago I read it now. I will have to pull it out of the attic.

A clue - my favourite line reads something like this (from memory)

"He had a grin like a fox eating sh*t off a wire brush"

awesome!

sE

one more clue and then I'll call it closed and go for something easier.

[edit] bloody censorship

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:47 pm

make it a cold quote NOW.

rule question: am i allowed to answer the next question sE posts? (if I know it)

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:46 pm

So do I get a point for no one getting the answer?

OK new first line:

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

sE

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:09 am

Lewis Carroll - 'Look The Looking Glass'

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:24 pm

Right author - but that title's totally mucked up - wanna try again?

sE

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:51 pm

Are you looking for the extended title, 'Through The Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There?)' or the title of the omnibus, 'Alice In Wonderland', & 'Through The Looking Glass' - which is the 2 books published in one volume?

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 4:53 am

The former will do fine. I just wasn't looking for this:

Edge wrote:Lewis Carroll - 'Look The Looking Glass'

Your turn

sE

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:52 am

Eeep - I only just now noticed that typo.

Sorry.

ok:

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:07 am

REbecca---by Daphne Du Muier--I know that last name isn't spelled right. I never can remember how it was.

A very moody book, that one.

GREAT description, though.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:58 am

Yep, 'Rebecca' by du Maurier.

You're up!

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:28 am

In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida, it was said that sending a message by Western Union was the same as broadcasting it over the combined networds. This was not entirely true.

This one may be obscure--but it was one of the books that shaped my mind when I was a teen.

Superenigmatix · Post by **Superenigmatix** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 3:17 am

Bump

Personally - not a clue.

sE

googled it - still not a clue what this book is

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:03 am

I found it by googling, but I'd never heard of it before.

Incidentally, it's 'networks', not 'networds'.

And Superenigmatix, I think you still owe me a Sherlock?

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:40 pm

Oooh. You're all missing out. It's a good post-apocalyptic book, set in the late 1950s.

Very realistic (for the time)

Scared the bejesus out of me when I was a teenie bopper.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:54 am

Superenigmatix wrote:

no idea about the book, but of you stare at this smiley long enough, it starts to look like a hole in the screen with a face passing behind it. can any one else see it?

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:11 am

Yer scarin' me, Kvetch.

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:13 am

but can you see it?

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:30 am

I saw it--which is scarin' me more.

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