First lines: books

[owlmoose]

This looks fun. Snagged from luciab.

Post the first sentences from ten of your favorite books and have your friends guess what they are from.

1. The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (plantgirl)


2. It was just past midday, not long before the third summons to prayer, that Ammar ibn Kahiran passed through the gate of Bells and entered the palace of Al-Fontina in Silvenes to kill the last of the khalifs of Al-Rassan. - The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay (plantgirl)


3. "We should start back," Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.


4. It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance. - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (yuna_flowering)


5. The year Janet started at Blackstock College, the Office of Residential Life has spent the summer removing from all the dormitories the old wooden bookcases that, once filled with books, fell over unless wedged.


6. The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. - The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin (hinikuish)


7. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (plantgirl)


8. It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.


9. Manhattan, island of glittering dreams, slept in the pre-dawn darkness.


10. It was a nice day.

Comments

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

#4 isn't from Cross Stitch/Outlander, is it? :)

[yuna-flowering.livejournal.com]

*Goes to check my copy of Cross Stitch*... it is! I knew it! :)

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

You are, indeed, correct. :)

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

#1 is from Snow Crash, and I believe #7 is from Middlesex.

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

This is fun to answer, but traumatic to pass on - I have to decide on 10 favorite books!

::rends clothing::

[zhaneel.livejournal.com]

I absolutely adore that section of Snow Crash. The bit about 'a lark hitting a sliding glass door' just cracks me up every single time.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Correct on both counts!

Yeah, it was hard to stick to ten. And then I rejected one as too hard and another as ludicriously easy, so I was able to pull in some back-ups. ;)

[parron.livejournal.com]

NUMBER SIX IS THE WESTING GAME. <3 I love that book, dude.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Correct! One of my favoritest books ever. I still pull it out and read it about once a year or so.

[parron.livejournal.com]

Heh. I wish I had a copy. I remember it fondly, though. Very fondly. XD

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm going to guess that #2 is The Lions of Al-Rassan, by Guy Gavriel Kay, even though I haven't read it yet!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah. Pretty much gives itself away, huh? ;)

Want it the next time I see you?