Book quiz

Oct. 2nd, 2008 02:27 pm
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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."

Date: 2008-10-03 03:52 am (UTC)
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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.

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