Book meme

May. 8th, 2009 04:11 pm
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Memed from [livejournal.com profile] rhiannon_s
1. Pick 10 of your favourite books.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books!

1. The sun was still burning the early morning fog off Metropolis Harbour, but it was clearly going to be a beautiful day.

2. It came crackling over the hills like an invisible fog. Movement without a body tired it, and it drifted very slowly. Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett. Got by [livejournal.com profile] shriker_tam

3. Enoch rounds the corner just as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.

4.The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd. Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. Got by [livejournal.com profile] vatine

5. When I was fourteen I started a notebook. A maths notebook.

6. The flotillas of the dead sailed around the world on underwater rivers. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. Got by [livejournal.com profile] sabremeister

7. "Death has no name."

8. To my esteemed and most worthy patronne, My Lady Charlotte de la Bagatelle, From her most humble and devoted servant N.F. Stovold Esq. Upon receiving the intelligence that you have again grown weary of those poor passtimes indulged at court, and are taking no relish in Durts nor Ballyards, nor yet desiring to turn your dainty hand to Whisk, nor to abandon yourself to the pleasures of the Poker, nor neither the 'modern' sports of Monotony and Trivial Par-Suite, I was cast into a desperation of spirit. Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac 2002 by Graeme Garden. Got by [livejournal.com profile] sabremeister

9. I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity - and repeatedly I meet individuals who are eager to share their view on science despite the fact they have never done an experiment.

10. It was half past 10, pitch black, and raining like bloody hell.

Date: 2009-05-08 03:47 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vatine
4.The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd.

Singularity sky, Charles Stross.

Date: 2009-05-08 03:53 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-08 04:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabremeister
6: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
8: The Mornington Crescent Strategy Guide(?) by ... is it Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden?

Date: 2009-05-08 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daibhid-c.livejournal.com
6. Yep.

8. Very nearly...

Date: 2009-05-08 11:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabremeister
8: Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac by Graeme Garden

Date: 2009-05-09 10:00 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-09 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shriker-tam.livejournal.com
2 & 10 sound _very_ familiar, but I can't think what they might be for the life of me.

Date: 2009-05-09 10:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daibhid-c.livejournal.com
They certainly should...

Date: 2009-05-09 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shriker-tam.livejournal.com
Argh...this is frustrating. 2 is not Wintersmith, and not Thud - which I thought it might have been, kinda sounds discworldy...And neither is the Tale. Nuh, still got nothing. Sorry.

Date: 2009-05-09 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daibhid-c.livejournal.com
Ooh, you're so close...

Date: 2009-05-09 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shriker-tam.livejournal.com
Aha! 2 is Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett. Got it :o)

Date: 2009-05-09 04:28 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-05-09 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daibhid-c.livejournal.com
And you're kinda-sorta in the right area with the other one as well. It's not the Tale, but it has something in common with it...

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