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Daibhid C ([personal profile] daibhidc) wrote2008-10-02 02:27 pm
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Book quiz

Inspired by both the "turn to page x" meme and the lyrics quiz meme. I've invented my own quiz. I selected 10 books using a pseudo-random number generator involving tossing a coin. Below are the first sentences of these books. Your task is to guess what they are. Nine of them are sf&f related, three of them are non-fiction, and none of them are Discworld because, as I realised afterwards, that would have required five tails in a row.



1. Success is overrated.

2. With a cold, drizzling rain, the last of the twilight was closing in like grey steel.

3. "So", said Martha Jones, folding her arms.

4. There was always trouble when it rained in August.

5. "Mr Charles Beauregard?" asked Dr Rud, squinting through his pince-nez.

6. I awoke suddenly and sat bolt upright in bed, my heart beating louder than the bass speaker in a drug dealer's Capri.

7. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing companies of Ursa Minor.

8. As soon as she stepped through the gate Lucinda Carlyle knew the planet had been taken, and knew it would be worth taking back.

9. The man is standing on the roof of a villa, which is itself standing on the crest of a hill overlooking the sea.

10. "Let's get the hell out of here."

[identity profile] cat63.livejournal.com 2008-10-02 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas I know none of these, although 3. is clearly a Doctor Who novel. 7 is one of the Hitchhiker's series,but to my shame, I know not which one.

( sounds like it might be a Torchwood book, given Jack's propensity for standing on top of buildings :-)

[identity profile] agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com 2008-10-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, no clue, although some sound intriguing.
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[personal profile] scarfman 2008-10-02 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)

I can't identify any of them, with the caveat that number seven might be from any one of five (though the last four'd be quoting the first one). Unless you've got the omnibus.

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[personal profile] pedanther 2008-10-03 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
5. The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman
9. The Also People by Ben Aaronovitch


3 is obviously a Doctor Who book, but I haven't read any of the ones with Martha in. 7 is obviously one of the Hitchhiker's books, but I don't know which one (except that it's not the one that begins "There is a theory..." - and I don't recall which one that is, either). 10 sounds familiar, but I can't place it. I'm quite certain I've never read 6, nor 8.