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book meme gacked from

behindblue_eyes

1. Choose five of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess.

1. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

--The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkein. Guessed by doyle_sb4.

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

--The Restaurant At The End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams. Guessed by scarlettfish.

3. "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, by Orson Scott Card. Guessed by ladyjessamyn. Read this book because it was one of those major "change your perspective" books. I read it in two days and since then I've reread it about 4 times. The younger you are, the better. Not because it's a kid's book by any means, but because it resonates with kids. I was 14 or so when I read it-- I wish I had found it at 10.

4. One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it: --- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

--Through the Glooking Glass, by Lewis Caroll. Guessed by doyle_sb4.

5. The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.*
--The Thief of Always, by Clive Barker. Guessed by d_irge. Read this book because it is simply wonderful. After the Dark Tower story this is my favorite horror-fantasy book. It's short and written to be accessible to young adult readers... but it's so good. It's creepy. It has fascinating imagery. It's like a combination of Peter Pan and Hansel and Gretel... only with the sensibilities of a traditional tragic and disturbing fairie tale.
Let me put it this way: if this were a movie, it'd be done by Tim Burton and it'd blow his other movies away.

...Bonus, because behindblue_eyes already used it in her meme:

5b. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

--The Gunslinger, by Stephen King. Guessed by flutingfrenzy.

Now, guess away, my pretties! I organized them from what I thought was easiest to most difficult.

* for the record, #5 is my favorite single opening line of any book I've read to date. I love how it manages to convey a really strong yet absract image and still be so short and abrupt. The full opening passage goes thus:

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month, wondering if he would ever find his way out through the cold coils that lay between here and Easter.

I should really put that on an icon or something.