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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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WigWamBam · 15/02/2006 21:17

I think the sickness one is William Burroughs The Naked Lunch

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:19

I wondered if that sickness one was Marquez, actually. 100 Years of Solitude?

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:20

Mine isn't Marquez - far more obvious than that!

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 21:20

gold star WWB!

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 21:20

Love in the time of Cholera

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 21:20

...well you could see where i was going with that....

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:22

OK, try this one:

The book was thick and black and covered with dust.

Mercy · 15/02/2006 21:28

Give up, can we have a clue?

these are getting too obcure for me!

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:29

A clue for the Seeohee hills one:

Well, I'm the king of the swingers, yeah...

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 21:29

SL's is possession

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 21:30

the jungle book!

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:30

Oh well done, gsl

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:30

For both!

JoolsToo · 15/02/2006 21:31

"Once upon a time ...."

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:31

In the hospital of the orphanage - the boy's division at St.Cloud's, Maine - the nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory circumcisions.

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:32

That sounds vaguely familiar, JT...it's on the tip of my tongue...

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 21:32

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys"

Hazellnut · 15/02/2006 21:34

Cider House rules - Soren's

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:35

A point to hazellnut!

Hazellnut · 15/02/2006 21:37

'in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since'

Hazellnut · 15/02/2006 21:37

'in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since'

Hazellnut · 15/02/2006 21:38

oops got all excited about having actually got one there !!

goldstarlover · 15/02/2006 21:38

The Great Gatsby
f. scott fitzgerald

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 21:39

Oh you can do one without having got one - I only knew Tale of Two Cities and Rebecca

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 21:39

Brave New World?