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Jan. 26th, 2003 06:45 pmtimepiececlockSomewhat hampered by my not having every favorite book available...
First lines of favorite books:
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
--The Gunslinger, Stephen King (1st of the Dark Tower books)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
--Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
--The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
It was a pleasure to burn.
--FAHRENHEIT 451, Ray Bradbury
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
--The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
The great gray beast of February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
--The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
First lines of favorite books:
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
--The Gunslinger, Stephen King (1st of the Dark Tower books)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
--Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
--The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
It was a pleasure to burn.
--FAHRENHEIT 451, Ray Bradbury
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
--The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
The great gray beast of February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
--The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
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You have great taste.
Date: 2003-01-26 07:32 pm (UTC)FAHRENHEIT 451
Ender's Game
You've almost completely eliminated the need for me to answer this survey. Great books.
Mercy
Re: You have great taste.
Date: 2003-01-26 07:49 pm (UTC)Ender's Game is one of those books I read that really affected me. I adore that book-- I read it at 14, and though it's not a children's book at all, I wished I'd read it when I was 11 or 12 instead, because I was reading books bigger than EG at that age, but that one would have had even more effect ahd I been younger. It's such a great perspective of children, for the point of view of an abnormal child.
And HHGttG is just the funniest thing I've ever read. Have you ever listened to it on audio, read by the author? That's how I first got it, and that's the best way to absorb the book, in my opinion. That great British accent giving everything just the right emphasis---makes it really funny. Also, because I heard the first book on audio, even when I read the others, my reading voice in my head sounded like the Douglas Adams' English accent.
Re: You have great taste.
Date: 2003-01-26 08:38 pm (UTC)I only just read Ender's Game two years ago (I am 27). And like you I wish I had read it when I was 11 or 12 (although I do sometimes have the emotional maturity of an 11 year old boy). But I do love it so. It had such an impact on me that I haven't been able to bring myself to read any of the other books, cause I don't want to take the chance that any of them aren't as good (it's a weird issue I have, I've done the same thing with Dune).
HHGttG, that is hands down side splitting fun. I first saw the tv series and then a friend told me the books are better. I have a friend who's going to burn the audio books on to a cd for me (I can't wait). I'm a push over for an British accent.
Re: You have great taste.
Date: 2003-01-26 09:04 pm (UTC)Good. It should be at the top. :) If you've read anything of Stephen King's before, I have to tell you this isn't like his other books, though he does tend to make allusions to his other stories within his stories (ex: the 4th book in this series has a few brief allusions to The Stand).
It had such an impact on me that I haven't been able to bring myself to read any of the other books, cause I don't want to take the chance that any of them aren't as good (it's a weird issue I have, I've done the same thing with Dune).
Same here, for the exact same reason. I first read it four years ago, and I asked my cousin not long after if the other books were as good (he had to read EG for freshman year in H.S), and he said they were good, but not as good. I'm still afraid to read more for fear of spoiling the warm& fuzzy afterglow of reading the original.
Re: You have great taste.
Date: 2003-01-26 10:13 pm (UTC)I really wish that I could find more books that rock my world like Ender. Cause that afterglow is really nice. And it totally inspires me in my wrtiting.
Aw now I'm getting all sentemental. ::sniff::