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first lines of books

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 17:08

Nice easy one to start us all off

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Book and Author then you give one.

No googling allowed

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Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 19:57

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 19:59

Right or wrong? I am sure I am right. Can I do one?

"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."

Rowlers · 15/02/2006 20:01

Yes, Robinson Cruesoe correct!

sobernow · 15/02/2006 20:02

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albatros · 15/02/2006 20:09

lonelymum Angelas Ashes

It's a boy, it's a boy!
It's a little boy

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:12

Correct Albatros.

have you just given birth? Sorry, I don't know that one.

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:16

Oh yes I do! Is it Man and Boy by Tony Parsons?

I feel I know Sobernow's too, but I can't think of it.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:18

I've got lots now - can I do some? I'm rubbish at the guessing.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:19

I feel I know sobernow's too but I have mushbrain.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:20

I don't care, I'm going to do one anyway...

'"Where's Papa going with that axe?"...'

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:21

Charlotte's Web by somebody White.

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:22

(Recently re-read it!)

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:23

E.B.

Anyone know what the initials stand for (I don't)?

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:23

Try another SL as I can't think of any.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:24

'If you are interested in reading stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.'

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 20:24

sobernows is camus
the outsider

Lonelymum · 15/02/2006 20:25

Just goggled it: Elwyn Brooks apparently. Sorry, is that a man or a woman's name? I always assumed it was a woman but now I am not so sure.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:26

Sounds like a man - I always assumed it was a man, funnily enough.

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Blandmum · 15/02/2006 20:26

Elwyn is a Welsh boy's name.

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roisin · 15/02/2006 20:26

Series of Unfortunate Events - The Bad Beginning - by Lemony Snicket.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:27

1 point to roisin

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 20:31

ok, just back from doing bedtime....where are we?

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 20:32

Oh goody, someone else to play (can you tell I've not been out of the house for days?)

Do you want another one?

roisin · 15/02/2006 20:32

"The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

?

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 20:32

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy