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Choose 10 books that you like. [Or 12, or 7.] List the first sentence or so of each of those books. Let other people try to figure out what book that first line is from.
1. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
2. Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at the party even though you could have.
3. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
4. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old men on a planet which was dying fast.
5. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night was seated at the breakfast table.
6. In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.
7. "There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden."
8. Elihu D. Washburne opened his gold watch.
9. When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them.
10. In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunderten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners.
woman_of_:Choose 10 books that you like. [Or 12, or 7.] List the first sentence or so of each of those books. Let other people try to figure out what book that first line is from.
1. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
2. Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at the party even though you could have.
3. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
4. This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old men on a planet which was dying fast.
5. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night was seated at the breakfast table.
7. "There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden."
8. Elihu D. Washburne opened his gold watch.
9. When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them.
10. In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunderten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners.
